April 10, 2009
Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources are provided as a service over the Internet.
A research paper released on October 8th, 2007 by Greg Boss, Padma Malladi, Dennis Quan, Linda Legregni, Harold Hall from IBM states: “Cloud computing is a term used to describe both a platform and type of application. A cloud computing platform dynamically provisions, configures, reconfigures, and deprovisions servers as needed. Servers in the cloud can be physical machines or virtual machines. Advanced clouds typically include other computing resources such as storage area networks (SANs), network equipment, firewall and other security devices.
Cloud computing also describes applications that are extended to be accessible through the Internet. These cloud applications use large data centers and powerful servers that host Web
applications and Web services. Anyone with a suitable Internet connection and a standard browser can access a cloud application.”
Simply said, if you don’t need to have operating system & other software application installed on your device, what you need is a device that support web browser. You can use the application through web browser. One of the good example is eyeOS. eyeOS is one of cloud OS out there. It’s an opensource project. After spent some hours playing around with it, I’ve got the feeling that i’m in love with it. Here is the website of eyeOS: http://www.eyeos.info/
February 27, 2009
Today, just trying to find gedit’s alternative editor. gedit is an editor running on Linux which is good for coding Javascript as it has many useful plug in. Since my workstation at home doesn’t run on Linux, I have find another alternative to gedit. After googling about a half hour, I found out about jEdit. After installing jEdit & install some extra plug in, i can see that jEdit is good as compare to gedit.
February 6, 2009
Well, i suppose some people have heard or already own an account on this site.
What is Delicious?
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
Things you can do with Delicious
Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere
Instead of having different bookmarks on every computer, Delicious makes it easy to have a single set of bookmarks kept in sync between all of your computers. Even if you’re not on a computer you own, you can still get to your bookmarks on the Delicious website.
Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return
If your friends use Delicious, you can send them interesting bookmarks that they can check out the next time they log in. Of course, they can do the same for you. As you explore the site and find interesting users, you can use our Subscriptions and Network features to keep track of the Delicious tags and users you find most interesting.
Discover the most useful and interesting bookmarks on the web
See what’s hot with Delicious users by checking out our popular tags. By looking at popular bookmarks for a tag, you’ll be able to discover the most interesting bookmarks on the topics you’re most interested in. Browse bookmarks on just about anything from the best programming tips to the most popular travel sites, all in an easy to read format.
source: http://delicious.com