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The movie is good. The music is awesome. I have no idea how it got into the blockbuster queue but I am glad it did.

Fear

My emotional intelligence has been extremely low for years. I am actually surprised at myself for having gotten away with it for this long. This what someone, who will always be special to me, had to tell not too long ago

You look at me like a mathematical equation.

Now that you know where I stand in terms of emotions, most of you might know a lot of stuff that I would be writing here but they are new to me.

Emotions cannot be classified as good or bad. They can be good or bad, useful or destructive. Fear is no different. Fearlessness cannot exist. Suppose you are fearless of something it is because you fear something else. We instinctively fear death hence we like to live. You will come across people who claim they are fearless, ignore them. You will across people who are actually fearless of death since fear living. Whatever your fears might be you will be fearless of other things that are diametrical.

Fear is useful, very useful, when used carefully. When you are fearless of something you need to be aware of the fear that drove you in the first place to be fearless and never loose sight of it. This isn't easy because it is exactly the opposite of what we naturally do. That very nature of us to do so leads us to sadness but that is for later.

Fear is the most basic and also the most powerful of all human emotions. It can drive you to any extreme. Again that may be good or bad. Both extremes are possible.

Fear also plays a significant role in any kind of Human Bonding. One particularly fascinating instance is when you are friends with somebody you share some common fears. The stronger the fear in both of you the better friends you make.

What to spend on?

I got a 250$ gift card. I have no idea what to spend on. I am thinking of a iPhone, iPod touch or a Kindle. All which would mean about a 150$ more. Any ideas?

No Country For Old Men

The best movie I have seen this year. It is awesome. Watch it!

Your Mac is a PC

Your Mac is actualy a PC, computer geeks out there know this but it doesn't matter. I'll tell why. What was a thought to be the biggest blunder made by Apple is turning out to best mistake anyone could every make. Back in the 80's Apple decided that Mac would remain proprietary and not a standard that would allow anyone to build a Mac just like a PC. It didn't sense then because PC would soon be everywhere and it would be a lot cheaper to build or buy a PC when compared to a Mac. Fast forward 25 years. You have PC's everywhere. Everyone has it. Apple decided to use the PC architecture for their computers for economical reasons but they will never ever tell you this. Why? Because you have a market with gazillion computers all of which are PC's but you are a Mac. This is the biggest advertising opportunity since the 60's and boy are they making use of it.

Pretty Women

Nice movie with a really pretty women in it. Although there is nothing extraordinary about the movie it was well made and acting is top notch. Rating : 6/10

Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol

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- Queens of the Stone Age They sound so much better in a concert. The concert was cool. I liked The Kooks and Mute Math performances the most.

Useful links on publishing web services using biztalk

http://blogs.msdn.com/richardbpi/archive/2006/04/10/572644.aspx http://www.digitaldeposit.net/blog/2007_08_01_saravanakumarmv_archive.html http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa559328.aspx (Enabling) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995583.aspx (Troubleshooting) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa578158.aspx  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms946955.aspx (how-to, not as good as or useful as mine :) )

How-To: Expose your schemas as web services in Biztalk

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There are two ways to expose your business process as web service. One allows you to expose your orchestration within Biztalk as a web service and the other allows you to create new web service based on a schema file (xsd). Either way you will be converting a HTTP SOAP request to a biztalk message, do all your processing based on the message within the Biztalk world and then return a SOAP response. If you need to expose some of your existing business processes then you would likely be exposing an orchestration. If you starting off, exposing schemas could be a better option. My advice stick with the first option unless you really have good reasons not to. Once you read the rest of this How-To you will know why. What should have been a piece of cake, something that shouldn't have take more than few hours took forever. The web publishing wizard will gather some information from you about your schema and will auto generate c# code for you that will call your biztalk component responsible to send this SOAP request to a SOAP adapter. Bring up the web publishing wizard and select "Publish schemas as web services" option.

The second screen allows you to name your web service, the web methods and the parameters. There is bug in the component that is auto generating code. What the wizards calls your web service description is actually the namespace under which the class will be defined. If you give these two the same name the generated code will NOT compile. Make sure that the web service description, the root node and the class name, the child node of the root node DO NOT have the same name.

In the next screen change the target namespace of the web service.

Specify the location you want to host your web service at, if there is a web service already present in that location you will get the option to overwrite it. Check allow anonymous access to your web service. Also check the create Biztalk receive location and select the Biztalk application under which you want to create this receive location.

Next screen gives you a summary. Review it, if everything looks good keep going. If you get errors at this point then it will most probably be an issues with permissions related to IIS or Biztalk. If there were no errors then you will given the URL to the published web service and file location of the .net solution. Open up the URL in your browser to make sure everything went well. You will have a link that says Something.asmx, click on that if you don't see any errors you are good. You are not done yet. You have exposed your schema as a web service and also created a receive location in Biztalk but there are no subscribers to that receive location. So if you try to invoke the web service will greeted by "Internal SOAP error" message. Very useful huh. Yeah that's all you get. Create an orchestration and subscribe to this port. Here is big gotcha that isn't documented any where in MSDN documents. The operation type of your logical receive port should match your web method name or else the message will NOT be picked up the orchestration. You might want to use the Biztalk subscription viewer to make sure you are subscribed to the port.  

Don't start your Biztalk app and send a SOAP request, yet. You are not done. Now you know why this is so painful. Bring up your Biztalk admin console. Go to the receive port that the web publishing wizard created for you.  

By default the wizard will select PassThru pipeline for both receive and send pipelines. Now technically you should select XMLReceive and XMLTransmit. Do this unless your schema is multi part in which case you want to select PassThruReceive and XMLTransmit. The SOAP adapter for some reason, I don't know if this is another bug, puts the wrong DocumentSpecName property in the message context in case of a multi part message. So when if you do PassThru there won't be any checking and it goes through. Obviously this won't work if you have inbound schemas.

The Untouchables

What a horrible movie. But if you really want to know why Robert De Niro is one of greatest actors alive you got to watch this movie. He puts every other actor in the movie look worse an amateurs. As for the movie the screenplay is unimaginative, dialogues are bum, uncalled dramatics it has everything you need to make a bad movie. Rating : 5/10