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This blog provides an insight to plan your hosting options. Calculating CIR What is CIR? In simple terms, it is the quantity of bandwidth measured as Committed Information Rate in megabits. CIR allows you to channel as much web traffic as possible within a given bandwidth. CIR calculation will help you to model your deployment option, whether to avail hosted model, or host the application in one's own dedicated server, or avail hosting provider service for monthly transfer or avail hosting provider service in pro-rata basis. What are the important parameters one needs to consider? One important parameter is, total number of simultaneous sessions that your web application is expecting. With this value, we can derive certain other parameters that would help us in arriving at CIR. Do not mean that simultaneous sessions imply simultaneous connections. This only means that, if we assume each session represents one user, we have that many users using the application at any gi...

Guyz, for the past 3 years, I have been indulging myself in media distribution and delivery platforms. Currently, working with one such customer who has 7 products under his belt and is on aquiring spree.. I would like to discuss the open source option for video delivery, that is Kaltura. KalturaCE is available for free and is an open source option for video distribution. Predominantly built over LAMP stack and has flex/flash components for the consumption layer. What I found after installing on my Ubuntu is that this platform offers basic media management features like publisher management, content uploading, transcoding, managing encoding profiles, playlist management, player embedding, playlist embedding and so forth. There is no extensive, i would actually say, a good mechanism to create and categorize content the way many want it to be. Kaltura provides client library APIs in java, C#, PHP to enable existing solutions to go media distribution enabled. The platform comes with ...

Here is the list of MIME types for different file extensions. mime-mapping extension='.html' mime-type='text/html' mime-mapping extension='.aif' mime-type='audio/x-aiff' mime-mapping extension='.aiff' mime-type='audio/x-aiff' mime-mapping extension='.aifc' mime-type='audio/x-aiff' mime-mapping extension='.ai' mime-type='application/postscript' mime-mapping extension='.au' mime-type='audio/basic' mime-mapping extension='.asc' mime-type='text/plain' mime-mapping extension='.asf' mime-type='video/x-ms-asf' mime-mapping extension='.asx' mime-type='video/x-ms-asf' mime-mapping extension='.avi' mime-type='video/x-msvideo' mime-mapping extension='.bin' mime-type='application/octet-stream' mime-mapping extension='.bcpio' mime-type='application/x-bcpio' mime-mapping ...

I am talking nothing new... This is the trend that is seen in eGovernance area, especially in Indian scenario. Opportunity up for grab, at the same time, however, be prepared to make loss as you still need to work with babus. Records management deals with maintaining records of orgnaization from the time of creation till the time of disposal. This includes classifying, storing, securing, destruction, and preservation of records. Records are not for everyday use, but need to be kept for references on special occasions. Records management will have following features, in persuance of legal obligations or transactions of business 1. Systematic and efficient control of the creation 2. Receipt 3. Maintenance and disposition 4. Processes to capture and maintain evidence of information Record shall comprise content, context, and structure sufficient enough to provide evidence of activity. The key is 'evidence' A record can be either physical or digital. Example: Medical r...

##This letter is supposedly written by Abraham Lincoln## I am moved by the respect and concerns he has for the teacher and values .... “My son starts school today. It is all going to be strange and new to him for a while and I wish you would treat him gently. It is an adventure that might take him across continents. All adventures that probably include wars, tragedy and sorrow. To live this life will require faith, love and courage. So dear Teacher, will you please take him by his hand and teach him things he will have to know, teaching him - but gently, if you can. Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend. He will have to know that all men are not just, that all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero, that for every crooked politician, there is a dedicated leader. Teach him if you can that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found. In school, teacher, it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat. Teach him to lea...

It is a representation of a person's online identity, activity and relationship to other people and content. One can make use of this data for several other purposes like targetting specific ads, more relevant content publishing, improved targeted marketing and promotions. The data will be used to derive context that is specific your website's audience. One can develop social media apps like social networking, messaging, media sharing, message boards, forums, review sections and many. Figure: Social graph - an illustration In simple words, you can make your website context sensitive to your website audience. Give what your audience like, not the other way!

I am reading a book called 'What did you ask at school today?' by Kamala V Mukunda. Would like to share some learning. The book is intended for teachers as primary audience, nevertheless, good for any adult to gain deeper understanding on learning process. She talks about brain structure, innate and non-innate learning aspects and talks about synergy needed between the two in the first two chapters. Firstly, innate learning is something that would not need explicit training. For example, kids learning the language. They wont feel strained or stressed during this kind of learning, just because they enjoy the process, where as non-innate learning focuses more on class room learning. It is accepted that learning through playful means will have more impact on kids than the impact through the structured learning. A physcologist, David Geary puts it this way - while learning through playful means has more impact, children should be encouraged to learn the skills through structure...