Surya namaskar mantram - Sun Salutation

Pranaam.
welcome to billions of people interested in suryanamaskar yogasanas. While you may be practising and be aware of postures, the additional Omkar chanting generates positive vibration near brain and its spread in and around your body during asanas. This gives a complete metaphysical experience to mind and body. 

The chants are coined very interestingly for each pose and helps you to remember it. I'll like to write more about this.

1. ഓം മിത്രയ നമഹ      , Om Mitraya namaha
2. ഓം രവയെ നമഹ     , Om  Ravaye namaha
3. ഓം സുര്യായ നമഹ , Om Suryaaya namaha
4. ഓം ഭാനവേ നമഹ    , Om Bhaanave namaha
5. ഓം ഖഗായ നമഹ     , Om Khagaya namaha
6. ഓം പൂശ്നെ നമഹ   , Om Pushne namaha
7. ഓം ഹിരന്യഗഭായ നമഹ  , Om Hiranyagarbhaaya namaha
8. ഓം മാരിചായ നമഹ , Om Maarichaya namaha
9. ഓം ആദിത്യായ നമഹ ,  Om Aadithyaaya namaha
10. ഓം സവിത്രെ നമഹ, Om Savitre namaha
11. ഓം ആര്കായ നമഹ , Om Arkaaya namaha
12. ഓം ഭാസ്കാരായ നമഹ , Om Bhaskaraya namaha

 

Translation assisted by http://malayalam.changathi.com/

Pictures from http://www.artofliving.org/yoga/health-and-wellness/sun-salutation-mantras

Oracle Coherence Quickstart : by Ahmet Fuat Sungur

 4/5
A real quick introduction into all features of Coherence v3.7 in-memory grid. Useful for developer and architect audiences with all backgrounds who may or maynot have worked with caching technologies.
http://bit.ly/1gPXhDM

"Enterprise Architecture Made Simple" by Håkan Edvinsson; Lottie Aderinne

 "Enterprise Architecture Made Simple" 

by Håkan Edvinsson; Lottie Aderinne

 Pranaam! to everyone. The authors provide a nice perspective of placing information models, process models and deriving architecture models from these. The fundamental theme shared throughout
by the authors is considering 'Information' aspect of business that doesn't change as frequently as processes or systems. IT is too narrowly focused on systems and believing that is the only way to improve an enterprise. But the enterprise wide picture is clearer if once takes a step back and considers what the most value adds for business and where should the next significant transformation happen in this enterprise. A management and leadership who understands this will initiate EA in enterprise, so that larger picture is evangelised at various levels in organization and such that EA is thought leadership that consistently convinces everyone on next steps.

Authors have used Zachman 3.0 Framework. They have succeeding in providing a very clear and to the point steps in preparing today's EA, making them ready to deal with different scenarios.
The EA methodology has been broken into 3 parts viz: Ready - Prepare EA, Set - operationalize EA and Run - action as EA. The discussion is basically an expansion of top phases
in TOGAF9 which deals with Requirements phase, Initiating Architecture work(gathering sponsorship) and Business Architecture. The finer details of rest of architecture phases
are left out in favor of Information architecture and business process modeling, since these have most profound impact to business and consulting to top management and business leaders.

The language n book is to the point, straight on topic rather than exaggeration usually found on EA topics. I liked this 'Enterprise Architecture Made Simple' very much and would recommend this to anyone interested in EA.  Regards. SGN

Cisco Press' "Networking and IP Addressing Fundamentals" by Keith Barker, CCIE

Cisco Press' "Networking and IP Addressing Fundamentals" by Keith Barker, CCIE
5/5
Excellent material, a great refresher for a person interested in reverse engineering Network domain design. Looking forward to IPv6 presentation now and the impact to these fundamentals. I've been using hosts within LAN, WAN, ISP network, VPN like we all are. Its interesting to understand how routers, swtiches and hubs make this communication possible.

Regards
Sudeep

"Java Performance - Charlie Hunt Video Training"

 5/5

Pranaam!! A valuable sneak-peak, a concise presentation on Java 1.7 performance tuning, with all important GC tuning options. The course is good to reinforce Oracle Performance Tuning training or for professional performance tuners to get a refresher. Each Garbage Collection type is explained with examples from verbose GC logs. The explanation is more on what are GCs, the what to performance tune is specific to context and is rightly not a black & white answer for the audience.
The G1 garbage introduced since later versions of 1.6 is interesting and I'd like to more about this.

The sections are divided around 3 topics. Something tells me that part of this training is about to arrive with details on G1 garbage collector or improvements in concurrency in existing GC types.

• JVM Overview
• Collecting Performance Statistics
• Understand HotSpot JVM GC Logs

Regards
Sudeep Namboodiri 

"Learning VMware ESXi and vSphere 5.1 Administration" by Glen Martin

4/5

"Learning VMware ESXi and vSphere 5.1 Administration by Glen Martin"
Very good hands-on training on ESXi related administration, useful for everyone including Solution Architects and System Integration Architects apart from system administrators to understand VMware's virtualization tools. The training covered fundamental working knowledge on below areas:
You can look at topic index for more details

• vCenter, vSphere, ESXi topology
• ESXi installation, vCenter installation
• Virtual Storage fundamentals
• Virtual Network fundamentals
• Creating a Virtual Machine
• DRS
• HA
• vMotion
• Storage vMotion
• Performance tuning
• vCenter Update Manager fundamentals and installation
• VMware Update Manager
• Data protection and security

The instructions were clear and concise. The oration  appeared to fast forwarded, limiting pauses in between all segments, leaving the audience a bit stressed. This is not a replacement for VMware documentation by any means, but is definitely a very good view for howto on VMware tools. Further reading and training is necessary if you came in researching the Performance aspects of virtualization.

Regards
Sudeep

"Data Design Introduction" by Tim Miles [2013]

A good jumpstart into database design practices, explained to the point and very lucidly. 1hr and 39min long.

http://bit.ly/162cvNY

Questions answered:
What is a Database?
What are types of databases?
What are relationships?
What is process of database design :
    determine purpose of database
    collect forms, reports, etc
    meet current and future users
    normalize the data, remove redundancy
    create the database
    review
what is Normalization?