Spinning code in the cloud

Well, the initiative from Mozilla labs to start coding in the cloud is not a new idea, given the fact that we have encountered child-computing ;) (i mean html coding) using web editors for quite some time now. 

The normal claims of

 - Compelling user experience

 - using open standards

 - extensible frameworks

 - etc.

for a cloud based IDE - like environment where I must 'upload' - 'write' - & - then 'download' to export it to my dev/production server ??? umm .. i think i may skip this one.

BUT - that being said, this is a great initiative to learn how the Mozilla guys are using HTML 5 (proclaim ably the next big thing in the web .. ask google !!) So worth joining the band wagon to see where things are headed in the not too distant future. 

Checkout - http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/bespin/

Certified in web services .... finally !

Well this was something that was long over due (if i believe myself well ... since 2005) the web services certification exam !

I finally managed to complete it - (bcoz my voucher was about to expire .... sshhhh !!)

But, now that I look back it was worth the effort and quite exhaustive in nature given the sheer breadth of the objectives. I think I should start an alternative blog which I can devote towards core tech articles as I have realized its better to categorize from scratch, something I did not manage to do with this blog.

Anyways, hopefully I should do that soon, but for the moment ... planning for a few more certifications

Browser's Chrome'd

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YASE (Yet Another Search Engine......)

Cuil (pronounced COOL) launched on 28th Jul '08 provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. It derives its name from an old Irish word for knowledge (co-founder and CEO, Tom Costello is from Drogheda, Ireland)

The company is led by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson.

Costello researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM while Anna Patterson is best known for her work at Google, where she was the architect of the company’s large search index and led a Web page ranking team.

Cuil gives users a richer display of results and offers organizing features, such as tabs to clarify subjects (google .. we need this !!), images to identify topics and search refining suggestions to help guide users to the results they seek.

Some of the claims made by the Cuil Team:
1.] Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages
2.] Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity (..will be worth looking at this algo !)

Worth a look, but google replacement ??? ...i'm guessin not !!

The computer that cried "Wolf!"

Just an interesting article worth having a look at > The computer that cried "Wolf!"

Linking myself to technorati

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Land of the Netizen ...

The ARPA theme is that the promise offered by the computer as a communication medium between people, dwarfs into relative insignificance the historical beginnings of the computer as an arithmetic engine.

The world of the Netizen was envisioned more than twenty five years ago by J.C.R. Licklider. Licklider brought to his leadership of the Department of Defense's ARPA Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) a vision of "the intergalactic computer network." Whenever he would speak from ARPA, he would mention this vision.

Today what we see is a radical shift & quantum leaps into the webi-fi-ed world. I still reminisce the days where I wanted to get that all so important email a/c and boast ... well, I have an email address !!

From emailing, to chatting, p2p ...., social-networking to blogging, I find myself in a different world !!

The reality finally hits in ....... 'home-run' - I live in cyberspace & there is no denying it.

Addiction is for drugs - if I coin the same term for net - addiction, I would be unfair to myself - its just normal. Spending 18 hrs on the computer is not a sickness & nor is it geeky. (I was amused by a review I saw on one of the news channels stating that, spending too much time on the internet terms you as a geek. Gosh NO !! If it ain't tech-constructive it ain't geeky ... no matter even if you spend you whole life online.)

Coming back to net-ville, ... so where are we running with all this information & connectivity crap hitting so blatantly in our faces ? I still remember the group discussion I had for my MBA entrance ... 'does IT help a person become a good manager?' & all started rumbling & arguing just for the sake of it. Bottom line was that information always existed even before our IT friends came along and wired everything up, just that it was not that accessible to us as it is today.

I feel Google has really transformed the way we look at and use the web. They have taken simplicity & jazzed it all up into one beautiful package - be it the google reader, sets, trends, code search, video, etc. Umm.. there is the jazzed up complexity also in the form of maps, docs, gears, apps & the likes. The reckoning of the cyber city is here ... the world of mash-ups, interconnecting pipes and all the plumbing that goes into it ...RIA has finally dawned upon us. The layman is ideally oblivious to such change - he will either ignore it, use it or abuse it.

But living here as a techie ... well seems that life is finally getting good !!!!!!