Sumera's Fantasy

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Today is birthday of my friend... and i remember this day.

Understand Then Read

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Amalia House

GRID architecture is behind this unusual austrian vacation home. what makes this house
stand out is not its cantilevered second floor, but its artificial grass cladding. the material
was chosen to pay homage to the surrounding green hills of the austrian countryside.
the building is the first in austria to use the artificial grass cladding. the home also boasts
clever space planning which allow it to comfortably house 6 occupants. the cantilevered
top does double duty as a car cover.

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My wallpapers

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How it looks?

famous places in DUBAI to visit

Dubai is the pearl of arabia ...a very wonderful place to visit...the weather in summer is boiling hot. However,the weather in winter time is nice (not cold at all).((it reaches 50 degrees in summer time,..but these days-april- they r normally hot ..the weather is nice..daytime: 32....night:25)).

Make sure to visit these places:

Burj Al-Arab.

Jumeerah beach.

Sooq Jumeerah.(if u want to have some nice romantic memories of Arabia go there and have dinner beside the lagoons).

Emirates mall.

Ibn Batutta Mall.

City Center Mall.

Wild Wady(this is a magnificent water park....enjoy it for a complete day experience).

Wafi City.

Al Koofah Cafe.

Marina Area.(very nice place with tall buildings and nice restaurants and lagoons).

Sheikh Zayed Street...........Just enjoy driving through the street at night...I repeat at night,and look at the buildings...(Notice Burj Dubai when u r passing in Sheikh Zayed Street...Its under construction...it is the tallest building on the planet!!!

Welcome to Dubai. :-)

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Designing Data & Process Placement

To allocate the processes and data to specific system processor nodes.

The Physical Data Model and Physical Process Model, or the Object Model, identify everything that must be placed within the distributed architecture.

Define Division of Client and Server Processing

Finalize the processing to take place on the server and the client. There are various degrees of division ranging from monolithic (all processing on the server) to fully distributed.

Re-examine the processes defined to ensure that the distribution of data and processes as defined in the data and process placement strategy remains appropriate for the processes as designed.

Define Clients and Servers

The data and process placement strategy defines the approach to distribution of data and processes.

Identify the distribution of data and processes among the different client and server nodes in the network. This could be a geographic distribution, such as branches located across a region, or a distribution by business division, for example, sales and finance.

Identify all server nodes in the system and allocate server processes and interfaces to appropriate physical processor nodes. Identify all client nodes in the system and allocate client processes and interfaces to appropriate physical client nodes.

Identify data that will reside on each node. Consider the issues associated with distributed data. Check that all processes, which require access to data, map against data that exists on that node, or that the appropriate interface exists to access the required data on a server.

Identify all servers that the client nodes must access and note the data volumes and frequency that the data access will require.

Re-examine the communications network design to ensure that there are no adverse effects caused by data and process placement design decisions.

CraigBorysowich (CTT)

Requirements List Deliverable & Sample

To formally define the requirements that will be addressed by the project in a formal list of requirements statements that are feasible, testable, consistent with each other, and clearly and properly stated.

Description
Multiple page listing with each requirement separately itemized.

Sample
Sample Requirements List:

Requirements List Deliverable & Sample
Craig Borysowich (Chief Technology Tactician)

I love Silence... 2 b silent

"Silence is more musical than any song."
Christina Rossetti

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
William Penn

"Silence is a text easy to misread."
A. A. Attanasio, "The Eagle and the Sword"

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
Kahlil Gibran

"Oppression can only survive through silence."
Carmen de Monteflores

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
Robert Louis Stevenson

"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
Thomas Carlyle



"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
Mahatma Gandhi

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
John, Lord Morley

"He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful."
Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
Robert Fripp

"Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant."
Saadi

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."
Tom Blair

"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."
Cato

"The unspoken word never does harm."
Kossuth

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
Pythagoras

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Edith Sitwell

"Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary."
Peter Minard

enquiry

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."



As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Einstein

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future" - Paul Boese

"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."

"Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'" Dan Parker

web development life cycle

Web sites can also be developed with certain methods with some changes and additions with the existing software development process. Let us see the steps involve in any web site development.

1. Analysis:
Once a customer is started discussing his requirements, the team gets into it, towards the preliminary requirement analysis. As the web site is going to be a part of a system, It needs a complete analysis as, how the web site or the web based application is going to help the present system and how the site is going to help the business. Moreover the analysis should cover all the aspects especially on how the web site is going to join the existing system. The first important thing is finding the targeted audience. Then, All the present hardware, software, people and data should be considered during the time of analysis. For example, if a company XYZ corp is in need of a web site to have its human resource details online, the analysis team may try to utilize the existing data about the employees from the present database. The analysis should be done in the way, that it may not be too time consuming or with very less informative. The team should be able to come up with the complete cost-benefit analysis and as the plan for the project will be an output of analysis, it should be realistic. To achieve this the analyst should consult the designers, developers and testers to come up with a realistic plan.

Input: Interviews with the clients, Mails and supporting docs by the client, Discussions Notes, Online chat, recorded telephone conversations,Model sites/applications etc.,
Output: 1. Work plan, 2. Cost involved, 3. Team requirements, 4. Hardware-software requirements, 5. Supporting documents and 6. the approval

2. Specification Building:
Preliminary specifications are drawn up by covering up each and every element of the requirement. For example if the product is a web site then the modules of the site including general layout, site navigation and dynamic parts of the site should be included in the spec. Larger projects will require further levels of consultation to assess additional business and technical requirements. After reviewing and approving the preliminary document, a written proposal is prepared, outlining the scope of the project including responsibilities, timelines and costs.

Input: Reports from the analysis team
Output: Complete requirement specifications to the individuals and the customer/customer's representative
3. Design and development:
After building the specification, work on the web site is scheduled upon receipt of the signed proposal, a deposit, and any written content materials and graphics you wish to include. Here normally the layouts and navigation will be designed as a prototype.

Some customers may be interested only in a full functional prototype. In this case we may need to show them the interactivity of the application or site. But in most of the cases customer may be interested in viewing two or three design with all images and navigation.

There can be a lot of suggestions and changes from the customer side, and all the changes should be freezed before moving into the next phase. The revisions could be redisplayed via the web for the customer to view.

As needed, customer comments, feedback and approvals can be communicated by e-mail, fax and telephone.
Throughout the design phase the team should develop test plans and procedures for quality assurance. It is necessary to obtain client approval on design and project plans.
In parallel the Database team will sit and understand the requirements and develop the database with all the data structures and sample data will also be prepared.

Input: Requirement specification
Output: Site design with templates, Images and prototype

The possible steps in the process of web site engineering.

4. Content writing:
This phase is necessary mainly for the web sites. There are professional content developers who can write industry specific and relevant content for the site. Content writers to add their text can utilize the design templates. The grammatical and spelling check should be over in this phase.

Input: Designed template
Output: Site with formatted content

5. Coding:
Now its programmers turn to add his code without disturbing the design. Unlike traditional design the developer must know the interface and the code should not disturb the look and feel of the site or application. So the developer should understand the design and navigation. If the site is dynamic then the code should utilize the template. The developer may need to interact with the designer, in order to understand the design. The designer may need to develop some graphic buttons when ever the developer is in need, especially while using some form buttons. If a team of developers is working they should use a CVS to control their sources. Coding team should generate necessary testing plans as well as technical documentation. For example Java users can use JavaDoc to develop their documents to understand their code flow. The end-user documentation can also be prepared by the coding team, which can be used by a technical writer who can understand them, writes helps and manuals later.

Input: The site with forms and the requirement specification
Output: Database driven functions with the site, Coding documents

6. Testing:
Unlike software, web based applications need intensive testing, as the applications will always function as a multi-user system with bandwidth limitations. Some of the testing which should be done are, Integration testing, Stress testing, Scalablity testing, load testing, resolution testing and cross-browser compatibility testing. Both automated testing and manual testing should be done without fail. For example its needed to test fast loading graphics and to calculate their loading time, as they are very important for any web site. There are certain testing tools as well as some online testing tools which can help the testers to test their applications. For example ASP developers can use Microsoft's Web Application Test Tool to test the ASP applications, which is a free tool available from the Microsoft site to download.

After doing all the testing a live testing is necessary for web sites and web based applications. After uploading the site there should be a complete testing(E.g.. Links test)
Input: The site, Requirement specifications, supporting documents, technical specifications and technical documents
Output: Completed application/site, testing reports, error logs, frequent interaction with the developers and designers

7. Promotion:
This phase is applicable only for web sites. Promotion needs preparation of meta tags, constant analysis and submitting the URL to the search engines and directories. There is a details article in this site on site promotion, click here to read it. The site promotion is normally an ongoing process as the strategies of search engine may change quite often. Submitting a site URLs once in 2 months can be an ideal submission policy. If the customer is willing, then paid click and paid submissions can also be done with additional cost.

Input: Site with content, Client mails mentioning the competitors
Output: Site submission with necessary meta tag preparation

8. Maintenance and Updating:
Web sites will need quite frequent updations to keep them very fresh. In that case we need to do analysis again, and all the other life cycle steps will repeat. Bug fixes can be done during the time of maintenance. Once your web site is operational, ongoing promotion, technical maintenance, content management & updating, site visit activity reports, staff training and mentoring is needed on a regular basis depend on the complexity of your web site and the needs within your organization.

Input: Site/Application, content/functions to be updated, re-Analysis reports
Output: Updated application, supporting documents to other life cycle steps and teams.

The above-mentioned steps alone are not strict to web application or web site development. Some steps may not applicable for certain tasks. Its depend on the cost and time involved and the necessity. Sometimes if it is a intranet site, then there will be no site promotion. But even if you are a small development firm, if you adopt certain planning along with this web engineering steps in mind, it will definitely reflects in the Quality of the outcome.

CHECKLIST FOR IDENTIFYING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Have all of the background materials been reviewed, such as the organization’s strategic business plan (which should include the organization's mission, business strategy, and critical success factors), the Request for Proposal (if one exists), requirements documentation, and concept papers?

Has the project team met with customer executives and other stakeholders to establish a clear and unambiguous understanding of their goals and aspirations?

Is it clear how the goals and objectives of this project fit within the overall goals and objectives of the organization (i.e., the bigger picture)?

Have the critical constraints been identified (e.g., the customer’s expectations for such things as effort, duration, and cost)?

Has the business value of achieving the goals and objectives been identified?

Have the goals and objectives been documented in a clear and unambiguous way (e.g., specific not general)?

Have the goals and objectives been documented in a way that will serve to challenge and motivate the project team (e.g., sufficiently difficult but also realistic and attainable)?

Are the goals and objectives measurable, tangible, and verifiable?

Is it clear how the achievement of the goals and objectives will be measured?

Is there consensus on the goals and objectives, as defined?


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About Dubai & Dubai Gallery:

View Dubai gallery: below, and then some text about dubai pics..

Amazing places:

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Dubai – safest place in the world

This is where the people with 'real' money have a condo or house.

absolutely the safest place on earth

Dubai in 1990 prior to the craziness

The madness. Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world 's cranes .

The Dubai Waterfront. When completed it will become the largest waterfront development in the world

All of this was built in the last 5 years, including that island that looks like a palm tree.

The Palm Islands in

Upon completion, the resort will have 2,000 villas, 40 luxury hotels, shopping centers, movie theaters, and many other facilities. It is expected to support a population of approximately 500,000 people. It is advertised as being visible from the moon.

The Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai. The worlds tallest hotel. Considered the only '7 star' hotel and the most luxurious hotel in the world. It stands on an artificial island in the sea.

Hydropolis, the world's first underwater hotel. Entirely built in Germany and then assembled inDubai, it is scheduled to be completed by 2009 after many delays.

The Burj Dubai. Construction began in 2005 and is expected to be complete by 2008. At an estimated height of over 800 meters, it will easily be world's tallest building when finished. It will be almost 40% taller than the the current tallest building, the Yaipei 101.

downtown Dubai will look like around 2008-2009. More than 140 stories of the Burj Dubai have already been completed. It is already the worlds tallest man made structure and it is still not scheduled to be completed for at least another year.

The Al Burj. This will be the centerpiece of the Dubai Waterfront. Once completed it will take over the title of the tallest structure in the world from the Burj Dubai.

Recently it was announced that the final height of this tower will be 1200 meters.

That would make it more than 30% taller than the Burj Dubai and three times as tall as the Empire State Building. This is a city on crack.

The Burj al Alam, or The World Tower. Upon completion it will rank as the world's highest hotel. It is expected to be finished by 2009. At 480 meters it will only be 28 meters shorter than theTaipei 101.

The Trump International Hotel & Tower, which will be the centerpiece of one of the palm islands, The Palm Jumeirah.

Dubailand. Currently, the largest amusement park collection in the world is Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, which is also the largest single-

site employer in the United states
Dubailand will be built on 3 billion square feet (107 miles^2) at an estimated $20 billion price tag. The site will include a purported 45 mega projects and 200 hundred other smaller projects.

Dubai Sports City

Currently, the Walt Disney World Resort is the #1 tourist destination in the world. Once fully completed, Dubailand will easily take over that title since it is expected to attract 200,000 visitors daily.

The Dubai Marina is an entirely man made development that will contain over 200 highrise buildings when finished. It will be home to some of the tallest residential structures in the world. The completed first phase of the project is shown. Most of the other high rise buildings will be finished by 2009-2010.

The Dubai Mall will be the largest shopping mall in the world with over 9 million square feet of shopping and around 1000 stores.��It will be completed in 2008. ��

Ski Dubai, The world’s largest Snow Park is nowhere else but at Ski Dubai. Lying on 3000 square meters of snow, the park is a one of a kind attraction that leaves you breathless.

At the Snow Park you won’t meet boredom; go crazy in the tobogganing hills, or in a twin track bobsled ride. Also, a snowball throwing gallery and a snow cavern filled with interactive experiences and amazing sights and sounds await you for an unforgettable journey. A large observation tower offers a perfect view of the Ski Dubai main slope. Parents can engage in recreation with their children while building a snowman and playing on the hills.

To complete this magical setting, regular snowfalls will surprise you and will add more excitement to this fun-filled snow experience..

Some of the tallest buildings in the world, such as Ocean Heights and The

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The UAE Spaceport would be the first spaceport in the world if construction ever gets under way. I'm not joking...

Some other crazy .. The Dubai Metro system, once completed, will become the largest fully automated rail system in the world. The Dubai World Central ,

International Airport will become the largest airport in size when it is completed. It will also eventually become the busiest airport in the world, based on passenger volume.

latest vehicle design concepts from RCA

The royal college of art has been teaching automotive design for 40 years. while the college
churns out some of the industry’s top designers, one can’t help but wonder about the future
of car design in light of global warming and the current oil crisis. none the less, this year’s
crop is trying to push the envelope fully conscious of issues such as sustainability.
one students even forecast a post-global warming world where the only cars are boats.

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concept car by ilaria sacco