On the fourth day of Developer Summit myself and Veetrag spent some time with Alessandro CTO of Lightstreamer. We talked about comet architecture and its application in various fields. Comment is sometimes referred as reverse AJAX and is a set of technologies used to push the live data from server to http clients.

Lightstreamer is a scalable and reliable Server for pushing live data to Rich Internet Applications. Its based on AJAX-Comet paradigm and pushes the live data to http/flex clients. A free version of Lightstreamer is available for download and can be used evaluation.

Myself and Veetrag caught up with Greg Murray sipping his coffee at Developers Summit. As usual we started talking and in between I realized, we could as well record it. Hence the start is abrupt and volume is low.
Greg Murray is an AJAX architect at Sun. He is known for his contributions to OpenAJAX Alliance and Dojo. He is the architect of Project jMaki. jMaki uses the best parts of Java and the best parts of JavaScript to deliver rich AJAX style widgets through a singe, easy-to-use interface that accesses components from popular widget libraries such as Dojo, Script.aculo.us, Yahoo’s UI Library, Spry, DHTML Goodies, and Google’s Web Toolkit.

The main program of my Dubai visit was sand safari and surfing in desert. We had to go around 20kms from Dubai city to see some sand dunes. In the picture you can see the vehicles on their way to dunes

This was my ride for the day Land Cruiser from Toyota. Its an amazing suv and if you get a chance to drive, you will surely enjoy it.

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I reached Paris by afternoon. Once I checked into the hostel my first visit would be Eiffel tower. So I caught the metro to reach eiffel tower. I could see it from the metro

The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and is one of the most recognizable structures in the world.
Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower is the tallest building in Paris and one of the most recognized structures in the world. More than 200,000,000 have visited the tower since its construction in 1889, including 6,719,200 in 2006, making it the most visited paid monument in the world. Including the 24 m (79 ft) antenna, the structure is 325 m (1,063 ft) high (since 2000), which is equivalent to about 81 levels in a conventional building.

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