my thoughts and reflections
Yes reading a book after 6 long years. Reading through the last page makes me so contented.
Making me realize that I still love reading.
Its an awesome book about the struggle and survival of a refugee.
A book that should be read today in the midst of war, flood , drought and a lot.
The book says or Salva Dut says “One step at a time…one day at a time..Just today – just this day to get through.. “
Easter is a festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, described in the New Testament .The most beautiful day and most awesome Easter I ever had in my life was the Easter morning of 2006 April.
The last celebration me, dad, mom and bro had. That’s day when I realized moms mutton stew and palappam was too good. We were celebrating a festival with new life.A celebration with the realization that there wont be any such in the years ahead. Days when we decided to celebrate every moment we had. My dad had only counted days to live and I was heart broken. But we decided to celebrate the remaining days.
Today 10 years later, living middle east I didn’t even celebrate Easter.For me the celebration is Palappam( Laced Rice pancake) and mutton stew. Will note down moms mutton stew recipe here.
Ingredients
Mutton 2 Kg
Savala (Red Onion) 10 or 15 depending on the size
Green Chili – 5
Ginger – 1 small piece
Garlic – 1 whole bulb (7 cloves)
Tomato – 4
Grind ginger, garlic and green chili and keep it aside
Cook mutton in pressure cooker along with garam masala
Sauté onions , add grinded mixture and tomatoes and sauté together till tomatoes become soft and then second coconut milk
Add cooked mutton. Cook for 15 min in small flame until second milk dries up.
Fry clove, cinnamon, cardamom and 10 shallots, 5 black pepper corns and one whole red chilly
Add the fried spices to the curry
Add little corn flour mixed with water and then add first coconut milk.
The mutton stew is done.
Grind coconut to get coconut milk.its first coconut milk.
Use the coconut residue add water and grind again you will get second coconut milk
Will Karak turn my sorrows down
Don’t know but I try
Karak it’s masala tea with extra sugar.
Don’t know when I started loving it
Of course after coming to Qatar
It will always remain close to my heart
Like the sand and the sand storms
Placid and furious
Bold and beautiful
Karak is a tea time story
It never ends
Ingredients 1 mango cut as small cubes 2 cucumber cut as small round slices 1 red bell pepper sliced into squares 2tbsp vinegar 1tbsp sugar a pinch of salt and red chilly powder. Directions Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl except the last four. Add vinegar, sugar, salt, chilly powder and toss to coat.
Even though I stopped writing diary notes these are few posts and notes
Feb 24 2011
If you get a burn on your finger and you have no ice in your fridge.
Then you can dip your finger in ice cream.
Something that I did recently and turned successful… 🙂
July 13 2011
God’s Grace. Finally I too got driving license in Qatar.
Hats off to Babuchayan Ranny, my tutor in Qatar Modern Driving School.
Thanks for all my tutors, relatives and friends.
Thanks for all who supported and prayed for me.
Particularly for motivating me in my multiple failures.
Mar 14 2012
Yesterday was something special. I felt our baby kick for the first time.
It was a special moment like the moment we heard our baby’s heart beat for the first time.
2013 review
2013 reminds me many blessings I had through the years.
2013 Sept 26 was our fourth wedding anniversary.
Had the most amazing pain of womanhood and blessed with two little ones- Ian and Ike and now we are four in four years. Always thankful for the medical staff and all our friends and relatives who helped us through.
13 Dec 2013 marked my 5 years in IT. Feeling great with all the colleagues and friends at three different places – Syntel, QPost and CNAQ.
2014 review
Was indeed another blessed year
I am very thankful for all the wonderful experiences and for the new people came to my life.
April marked the wedding of Sen and Riny and here comes December with Haby and Sherin
And June of course was beautiful with my bro in Qatar
Of course it was a miracle that I got saved from the accident
Ike started walking Ian started talking better Malayalam
And our 5th wedding anniversary
April 2015
Moving from coastal Qatar to the heart of Doha. Feb 2010 to June 2013 we had enjoyed the beauty of Al Wakra, a coastal town in Qatar. It was always beautiful. Then we moved Al Khor another coastal town of Qatar and in 2015 we are back to the Corniche area, heart of Doha.
29 July 2015
July is month of memories. July 1st was Pappa’s birthday and July 19th his 9th birthday in heaven.
Don’t know whether I could ever be an awesome parent like Pappa or a brilliant professional like Pappa but I’m thankful for God for blessing me with the warm memories that cherish my life and inspire me to go ahead.
Ingredients
3 cups(1/4) watermelon cut as small cubes
1 cucumber cut as small cubes
1 small red onion sliced into thin half moons
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
2 tsp. (1/2) lime juice
a pinch of salt and pepper
Directions
Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl except the last two.
Add lime juice, salt and pepper and toss to coat.
And garnish with mint leaves(optional)
nature its beauty
Sand or sea it makes me smile
For a moment it takes my worries far
Far to the end of earth
the mangrove, the sand and the water
I opened my car window
To hear the waves
It’s a great rhythm
Someone was walking nearby
And I closed my window
Didn’t want him interrupt my solitude
Ingredients
Procedure
Kashmiri Chilly Powder 1 large spoon
Turmeric ½ tsp
Fenugreek ½ tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Tamarind 3 pieces
Curry Leaves 1 twig
Ginger 1 tbsp
Garlic 1 tbsp
Shallots 1 tbsp
Splutter mustard in 1 tbsp of oil
Saute shallots, ginger and garlic
Add 1 more tbsp of oil and saute chilly powder, turmeric, fenugreek, salt
Add water and wait until oil comes to top
Add more water, turmeric and curry leaves
Add fish
Water should be at the level of fish
Cook until water reduces to half
Web Services are about exchanging data between a server and a client, using a standard XML format to “package” requests and data so that both systems can “understand” each other. It enables applications written in different languages, located in different places, running on different operating systems, to talk to each other, exchange information and perform different operations. The building blocks of Web Services are a set of XML based standards namely SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language) and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration).
The above diagram is the simplest diagram which can help you visualize web services, and shows how two remote applications can interact with each other using web services. The protocol used for this remote interaction is SOAP.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
It is an XML-based protocol. A SOAP message contains data in the form of XML.A SOAP transaction begins with an application making a call to a remote procedure. The SOAP client script then encodes the procedure request as an XML payload and sends it over the transport protocol to a server script. The server parses the request and passes it to a local method, which returns a response. The response is encoded as XML by the server and returned as a response to the client, which parses the response and passes the result to the original function.
WSDL (Web Service Description Language)
The data exchange happens at the packaging layer. On top of the data exchange, you also need a description layer, and the WSDL (Web Service Description Language) standard makes this happen. Web Services can describe themselves to the client using WSDL file.
FedEx Web Service
Web Services share business logic, data, and processes through a programmatic interface across a network. To perform a particular FedEx task such as tracking a package, you need to use a class that creates your request, sends it to the FedEx platform, and handles the response.
FedEx Web Service Integration Testing
Use the FedEx Web Service as a corporate solution for tracking items posted from our counters and shipped by FedEx.Since our website being implemented in PHP, the source code used for testing was also PHP.
Server used
For Testing the application, Apache Server is used.
By default Apache’s document root is set to htdocs directory.The document root is where the program files are placed and it is processed by Apache.
(Output can be seen through a web browser).
The source file extension was php5 and the Apache Server was not recognizing php5. It was only recognizing php extension. So as to run php5, edit the apache configuration file (httd.conf) as below.
AddHandler php5-script .php5 // add this line
Program Files
WSDL File : TrackService_v4.wsdl (The wsdl file is where,the FedEx url (Track Service Port) is specified.)
SOAP client : The PHP module having two PHP files (fedex-common.php5, TrackWebServiceClient.php5)
fedex-common.php5 : In this file the test credentials are specified.
TrackWebServiceClient.php5 : The path of TrackService_v4.wsdl and fedex-common.php5 is specified here.
This file also contains the php code that generates the xml request. Web service requests are made in XML.
Two php5 files, one wsdl file and the html file invokes the webservice.
Server used to run – apache (application xampp)
Put php folder containing all relevant php files and the wsdl in htdocs
How to enable .php5 file extension?
In order to run php5, edited server config file
Edit Apache config file httd.conf
AddHandler php5-script .php5 // add this line
Reference
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=230165
First test with test credentials, and then with production credentials.
Output – tracking information
PHP code generates the xml to send request to the fedex server and the tracking information is generated as output
The tracking is done using shipper reference.
The web service client retrieves the tracking information based on the shipper reference.
The tracking information retrieved is the entire tracking information based on shipper reference.ie all transactions in a day.
Since the current tracking information has more than one transaction with different tracking numbers, included two functions to parse the output (response) and is displaying the output based on the corresponding tracking number as entered in the reference field in the html page.
<form action=”TrackWebServiceClient/TrackWebServiceClient.php5″ method=post>
<table cellpadding=”10″ cellpadding=”10″>
<tr><th>FedEx Shipment Track & Trace</th></tr>
<tr>
<td>Please enter your Tracking Reference Number</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tracking Reference Number </td>
<td> <input type=”text” name=”Track_Ref_No”></td>
</tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr> <td></td>
<td> <input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”TrackShipment”> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Parse the Web Service response
TrackWebServiceClient.php5
<?php
// path to fedex-common.php5 where test credentials are specified
// $path_to_wsdl variable.
/*By default, WSDL caching is turned on and caches WSDL files.
To disable WSDL-caching use ini_set(‘soap.wsdl_cache_enabled’, //’0′);*/
// The WSDL document is specified as an argument to the SoapClient constructor which creates SoapClient objects. The WSDL document specifies the operations that are available to the SOAP client.
//code that generates xml request
//catch webservice response in $response
The response array may include simple types, objects, arrays, nested objects, and nested arrays.
//prints xml request and xml response
//convert to array using function
//Arrays are processed with the recursive function to convert inner PHP objects //into array.
//call the recursive function trackDetailstoArray to convert inner PHP objects into array.
//fetch required details from the resulting array with corresponding key as described in the array structure.
//check tracking number (user input )with tracking number in the response array and display details in a table
View Response Array Structure
open Mozilla firefox to view the output
TrackWebServiceClient/TrackWebServiceClient.php5
Select the output and press cntrl+u
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