Linking Desktop Virtualization with Big Data

Just attend a meeting about end-user computing, hosted by Information Week, sponsored by Dell and Intel. I think of this and contribute this new idea to the audience: since all contents of virtualized desktop are at server-side as well, it would be a fairly interesting solution if we can leverage big-data infrastructure (Hadoop, HBase, HDFS, search engine like Lily etc) to establish one new shared-data platform. User can decide what to share, and leverage server-side analytics capability to get what they want to retrieve from their virtualized desktop and shared data. Basically, virtualized desktop is just a user-defined zone, allow them to put what they want to put (content-storage), applications(computing) and define what to share and what not to share. It will require OS-level system engineering for sure and will be interesting to see if any vendor can pick up this idea, move forward.

Streaming and Pagination, A Linked Thought

Talking to Muthu today about it. He want to investigate streaming technology to apply saving large chunk of data in Excel. I encourage him and suggest that this research may help pagination as well. If we compare paging with pausing at some point in streaming, it would make sense. However, there is an email googled about this this topic in their point of view. http://lists.neo4j.org/pipermail/user/2011-April/008165.html

Restful Service API and Element Order in XSD

.NET default RESTful implementation of object serialization is to order properties in data contract by alphabet if there is no explicit setting of order in your data-contract. This has profound impact when you deal with cross-platform web-messaging in XML.