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.

What was their Intention? Stop single or injure Sachin?

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Rajastan is known for puppets’ performance (Kathputli) accompanied by folk music. I was able to catch a glimpse of such a performance at Udaipur. Its usually performed on a small stage illuminated by incandescent bulbs. The performers are behind the screen (you can see their hand in the video). Puppets’ performance is usually accompanied by live folk music but in this case it was recorded music. After the performance the guy came out to show us some tricks.

Below is the video of of such a performance.