Ever wondered M$ will recognize open source products or leverage its tools to comport open source products? I received an event notification mail from Microsoft. I was surprised to see PHP Developer Day as subject. It wouldn't have been surprising for you to see Microsoft Silverlight ad in every website you browse. Infact I saw quite few pop ups from linux forums too :). I love the way they market their products but never imagined them to go to an extent facilitate Silverlight app development with eclipse. I would be more than happy to hear any update on this event.
1. Build Mission Critical Applications on the Microsoft Platform using Eclipse (Nahas Mohammed, Technology Advisor, Microsoft)
Microsoft has delivered multiple technologies that focus on interoperability with non-Microsoft and Open Source technologies. Learn how to use Eclipse tools today to build Silverlight applications that run on PCs and Macs, how to work in a cross-platform environment and yet integrate your solution with your designer team. Also get to know about Microsoft’s commitment to openness with the Azure Services Platform.
3. MS SQL Business Intelligence with mySQL (Praveen Srivatsa, Director, Asthrasoft)
Have your data residing on mySQL but want to leverage MS SQL server capabilities to build Business Intelligence solutions? Then this is the right session for you. This session looks at leveraging your existing investments in mySQL and leveraging the Reporting and Analysis Services from MS SQL server to extract data out from your mySQL data store to build meaningful dashboards. It looks at how we can integrate SQL Reporting Services and use SSIS to harvest the data from mySQL. It also looks at how we can replicate or sync data between MS SQL Server and mySQL to be able to share the relevant data across these databases.
I am disinterested in establishing that my perception is dominant or persuade people with my views. If some of my views hurt anyone, I seriously apologize for it.
If there is an entity that is responsible for every action in this World, then only two plausible reasoning exists.
1. The Holocaust, Genocides and other brutal events would have also been scripted by so called divine spirit. Then, such entity is no different from a psycho. Some even promote that such entity shows us both the good and bad ways and that we make out of those options but to me, if you guide a person with two options, knowing that the alternative will be miserable, you are simply a psycho, enjoying others’ miseries by fallibly misguiding. All good deeds, if it had done any, would necessarily vanish or would be annulled.
2. No such entity exists.
By reasoning #1, I don’t want to benefit from such a tainted entity, if at all it exists. Therefore better suffer than benefit from it.
By reasoning #2, I don’t expect any miracles to happen J
Either way, I think my stance is right. So I maintain “agnostic atheism”, believing myself and happily attribute every success or failure to my own decisions.
Furthermore, Genocides, The Holocaust, Revolutions and Imperialism suggest that “only fittest survive”. This principle sounds valid to the recent wars, the political oppressions in many countries and even to the “dynamics” in the organization we work and in many day to day scenarios. But still I feel essence of life is in firm struggle in such environments, for we don’t have any other good reason to survive. All these struggles evolve us (or later generations) to be the “fittest”, after all no one is born fit or ever fit.
However, I view religion and few rituals as something different in fact with great reverence. It “was” coded well but was transformed as it reached us through our ancestry. It was a code of conduct and a guide for better living. The underlying reasoning was not appreciated or passed on, while simply dictated rules were forced for generations. This fundamental gap stops me accepting at its entirety. I don’t simply ignore them but, follow whichever that answers the questions spawned from my “little brain” (there are people who simply escape claiming “outside our reasoning” philosophy).