First it was Cuil which blasted even before it took off. Now it is Yuil which is anew search engine reportedly created by Yahoo Executive. It is based on Yahoo platform and looks almost exactly like Cuil.
The news is that Yuil is dead now. Was it a hoax. These kind of failures only add to the Google's supremacy.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Adobe Lightroom 2
Adobe Systems recently launched version 2 of its popular Photoshop Lightroom. The company has added a number of new features in the second version of software for sorting, cataloging, and editing photos.
Lightroom 2 has new interface which is built from the scratch and is targeted at the day to day photo editing tasks like smoothing the edges, correction of colors, labeling the photos and their safe storage for later retrieval. Although Lightroom has less features than its big brother Photoshop, it has some nifty features which are not even in Photoshop like multiple photo editing at the same time.
Lightroom is less complex than Photoshop and is meant to be a general purpose image editing software. Dual monitor support, categorization based on camera make , lens and many features make it a good software for photo editing tasks.
Lightroom 2.0 supports 64-bit Windows Vista and Mac OS X. It lets people use more than 4GB of memory for the application. That means Lightroom can easily handle large images such as panoramas, move back and forth among many images, and handle large image catalogs.
All of the above and integration with Photoshop makes Lightroom 2 a very good software.
Lightroom 2 has new interface which is built from the scratch and is targeted at the day to day photo editing tasks like smoothing the edges, correction of colors, labeling the photos and their safe storage for later retrieval. Although Lightroom has less features than its big brother Photoshop, it has some nifty features which are not even in Photoshop like multiple photo editing at the same time.
Lightroom is less complex than Photoshop and is meant to be a general purpose image editing software. Dual monitor support, categorization based on camera make , lens and many features make it a good software for photo editing tasks.
Lightroom 2.0 supports 64-bit Windows Vista and Mac OS X. It lets people use more than 4GB of memory for the application. That means Lightroom can easily handle large images such as panoramas, move back and forth among many images, and handle large image catalogs.
All of the above and integration with Photoshop makes Lightroom 2 a very good software.
Monday, July 28, 2008
CUIL Search Engine Technology
A new search engine is getting famous. The name of search engine is CUIL pronounced cool. This search engine started serving pages on monday. What is different about CUIL is that it serves the results according to the relevance of their content. CUIL directly competes with the most popular and widely used search engine Google. CUIL is touted as Google killer. This may be far fetched statement. Google has years of experience of technology behind it and CUIL is a newborn baby. Their web site claims to search 3 times more web pages than Google and tenfold more pages than Microsoft's search engine. While we may need to look at the search engine technology in a new way CUIL as such can not compete with Google. By the way, Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. It is reported that Google's engineers are the brains behind this new search engine.
Friday, July 25, 2008
MinWin The Windows Of 25 MB !!
Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system on the planet earth. This operating system is equipped with the latest computer technologies to make the operating system very pleasant to use. But does it happen ? Windows versions are known to be buggy and bloated. Latest Operating System from Microsoft , Windows Vista , takes up whopping 4GB hard disk space. It demands lots of memory and is slow even on 2 GB ram.
But can you believe that Microsoft has developed a version of Windows which takes a meager 25 MB space on hard disk !! . Sounds incredible. But true. Microsoft has developed a core of windows which is called MinWin and forms the core of all the major releases of future operating system releases including the forthcoming Windows 7.
This baby has no graphical interface and includes a HTTP server. MinWin consists of 100 files only. MinWin may also be a part of Microsoft's overhauling of Windows kernel which is years old and needs an upgrade. Moreover, MinWin may be a part of Microsoft's strategy to modularize the Windows and make it more componentize. Windows technology is good but is plagued by frequent OS failures and library mismatches. This latest technology may improve the operating system which is deployed on the most of the desktops today.
But can you believe that Microsoft has developed a version of Windows which takes a meager 25 MB space on hard disk !! . Sounds incredible. But true. Microsoft has developed a core of windows which is called MinWin and forms the core of all the major releases of future operating system releases including the forthcoming Windows 7.
This baby has no graphical interface and includes a HTTP server. MinWin consists of 100 files only. MinWin may also be a part of Microsoft's overhauling of Windows kernel which is years old and needs an upgrade. Moreover, MinWin may be a part of Microsoft's strategy to modularize the Windows and make it more componentize. Windows technology is good but is plagued by frequent OS failures and library mismatches. This latest technology may improve the operating system which is deployed on the most of the desktops today.
BrowseRank The Latest Technology From Microsoft
Latest Technology For Ranking Pages
Microsoft is working on a new computer technology to determine the rank of pages in its search engine. This latest technology is named BrowserRank. BrowseRank competes directly with the Google's system of ranking web sites, PageRank. Page Rank is determined by the number links on the internet that are pointing to a particular site. The more links that are pointing to the site, the more significant that site becomes in the eyes of Google.
But Microsoft thinks another way. It thinks that there should be more human touch to the search engine rankings. The technology to determine page rank is shoddy.Raw data about a website can not be an indicator of its usefulness. There are other factors too. Like how much time the user spends on the web site. What is the bounce rate.
I think that this is misconception of Microsoft. While links play important in determining page rank from Google, links are not the only factor. Google takes into account hundreds of the factors before giving it a rank on its search results. This technology from Microsoft comes in the wake of its failed attempts to buy Yahoo as after Google, Yahoo is the only competitor of Microsoft in search engine arena. I do not think that Microsoft's arguments hold weight as Google has the best algorithm to search the relevant pages. And the technology behind Google's algorithm is constantly evolving. Google is still the best or why else do we rely on it to find the information we want from the vast ocean of websites.
Microsoft is working on a new computer technology to determine the rank of pages in its search engine. This latest technology is named BrowserRank. BrowseRank competes directly with the Google's system of ranking web sites, PageRank. Page Rank is determined by the number links on the internet that are pointing to a particular site. The more links that are pointing to the site, the more significant that site becomes in the eyes of Google.
But Microsoft thinks another way. It thinks that there should be more human touch to the search engine rankings. The technology to determine page rank is shoddy.Raw data about a website can not be an indicator of its usefulness. There are other factors too. Like how much time the user spends on the web site. What is the bounce rate.
I think that this is misconception of Microsoft. While links play important in determining page rank from Google, links are not the only factor. Google takes into account hundreds of the factors before giving it a rank on its search results. This technology from Microsoft comes in the wake of its failed attempts to buy Yahoo as after Google, Yahoo is the only competitor of Microsoft in search engine arena. I do not think that Microsoft's arguments hold weight as Google has the best algorithm to search the relevant pages. And the technology behind Google's algorithm is constantly evolving. Google is still the best or why else do we rely on it to find the information we want from the vast ocean of websites.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Knol The Latest Blogging Technology From Google
When it comes to innovation in technology, Google has always been on the forefront. Google has provided us with a popular blogging platform blogger which is used by millions of bloggers today. The latest technology from Google stable is Knol.
Knol is a blogging platform like blogger. There a some basic differences though. Knol is suitable for the single page authoritative content. The page may be a small page or a giant one. Knol was released recently by Google. In fact when I logged in to the blogger one day to publish new post for my this blog about latest computer technology I saw the Google post right in my dashboard.
Knol seems to be inspired by other one page blogging services like Hubpages. Knol has all the features of good old blogger like text formatting, image upload. You can also insert Adsense easily in the Knol.
With Google's dominance in the search engine arena and popularity of blogger Knol is poised to become popular very fast.
Knol is a blogging platform like blogger. There a some basic differences though. Knol is suitable for the single page authoritative content. The page may be a small page or a giant one. Knol was released recently by Google. In fact when I logged in to the blogger one day to publish new post for my this blog about latest computer technology I saw the Google post right in my dashboard.
Knol seems to be inspired by other one page blogging services like Hubpages. Knol has all the features of good old blogger like text formatting, image upload. You can also insert Adsense easily in the Knol.
With Google's dominance in the search engine arena and popularity of blogger Knol is poised to become popular very fast.
Garbage Collection The Technology To Avoid Memory Leaks
As computer technology evolves, the technology to program the computer also takes new forms. There are many companies in the field of programming languages. There is Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Apple to name a few. There are many challenges that a programmer faces while programming an application which is easy to use and so robust that it does not breaks down under demanding conditions. Previously when the technology behind the design of programming language was in nascent stage, it was very hard to program a computer. Mainly the arcane assembly language was used. But programming assembly meant you had the ability to learn a new language syntax which resembled sanskrit or latin!! Due to technological complexity , it was not an average programmer who programmed for the clunky machine called computer. In those tough times , you had to deal with the hardware directly. Whether it was primary memory storage or secondary storage device operation like saving on floppy or hard disk, one had to deal with the hardware directly in language and the language itself was very terse to comprehend and write code into. Then came the so called mother of all language C. With advances in the computing technology the programming languages also started to take on a new form in which one could program in english like language. But the scenario was more or less the same. Specially , dealing with memory was largely an uncharted territory for an average programmer. Memory leaks were very common in softwares and a real killer.
Memory leaks refers to the situation when an executing program claims a patch of memory but forgets to free it. As a result there is a large amount of unclaimed memory in the primary memory area. This makes less and less resources available to an executing program. Obviously this was a very serious problem as the softwares behaved erratically. Many programming guru suggested that in place of depending on latest technology to solve these type of problems , we should tackle these problems by adopting good programming practices. Like if you have claimed a memory from computer , you should free it too, use memory with caution and use it as and when really required. Not many heeded to the advice as a group of programming folks were of view that going too far in adopting these practices will result in a bloated code. Thus something new in computer technology was again expected to solve these perennial problems. Newer and more sophisticated programming languages came into being and with each advance there was something new , something improvised but the problem of memory leaks was more or less the same. Many languages did not introduce any radically new thing but these languages introduced new syntactical sugar which allowed improved structure of code. But again these technological advances could not solve the problem associated with memory leaks.
Then a miracle happened in latest computer technology world. The most popular language Java was invented and this technology changed the programming paradigms forever. The language even today has a cult following and is perhaps the most advanced programming technology. Java solved the problem of memory leaks for good. Java employs the garbage collection technology for this. Garbage collection technology employs an algorithm in which a lightweight process runs in the background when the program is executing. The moment there is a patch of memory which is unused the garbage collector reclaims it. And thus avoids memory leak. This technology is being used by many latest computer language like C# from Microsoft. Thus we see that Java technology has changed the programming world for good.
Memory leaks refers to the situation when an executing program claims a patch of memory but forgets to free it. As a result there is a large amount of unclaimed memory in the primary memory area. This makes less and less resources available to an executing program. Obviously this was a very serious problem as the softwares behaved erratically. Many programming guru suggested that in place of depending on latest technology to solve these type of problems , we should tackle these problems by adopting good programming practices. Like if you have claimed a memory from computer , you should free it too, use memory with caution and use it as and when really required. Not many heeded to the advice as a group of programming folks were of view that going too far in adopting these practices will result in a bloated code. Thus something new in computer technology was again expected to solve these perennial problems. Newer and more sophisticated programming languages came into being and with each advance there was something new , something improvised but the problem of memory leaks was more or less the same. Many languages did not introduce any radically new thing but these languages introduced new syntactical sugar which allowed improved structure of code. But again these technological advances could not solve the problem associated with memory leaks.
Then a miracle happened in latest computer technology world. The most popular language Java was invented and this technology changed the programming paradigms forever. The language even today has a cult following and is perhaps the most advanced programming technology. Java solved the problem of memory leaks for good. Java employs the garbage collection technology for this. Garbage collection technology employs an algorithm in which a lightweight process runs in the background when the program is executing. The moment there is a patch of memory which is unused the garbage collector reclaims it. And thus avoids memory leak. This technology is being used by many latest computer language like C# from Microsoft. Thus we see that Java technology has changed the programming world for good.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Google Poised To Get Bigger With Digg
Rumours are that the popular social networking site Digg is in talks with the search engine giant Google for acquisition. The talks are supposed to be in final stage and the Google valuing the Digg at a whopping $200 million . If those talks materialize , Google will become stronger with a mammoth social networking site on its side. Orkut is already incuded in the Google group. It shows the Big G's interest in social networking phenomenon. Although people from Digg deny that . Listen to what Digg CEO Jay Adelson has to say,
"Normally our policy is to not comment about things like this," Adelson wrote, "but this morning's rumors about a bidding war involving Google and Microsoft have created such a stir we feel compelled to tell you all directly that they are completely inaccurate."
Does this indicate , that Microsoft is involved too ??
"Normally our policy is to not comment about things like this," Adelson wrote, "but this morning's rumors about a bidding war involving Google and Microsoft have created such a stir we feel compelled to tell you all directly that they are completely inaccurate."
Does this indicate , that Microsoft is involved too ??
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Microsoft Surface Computing
Imagine a coffee table which is a computer screen too. On the top of that it responds to your touch. You can put your camera on it and without attaching a cord it is able to transfer photos from your digital camera to the secondary storage which is s USB drive and which is also kept on the same table. No hooks, no wires and no clumsy setup. Sounds like a hitech script of an unbelievable scientific movie. But that is what Microsoft Surface Computing technology is all about.
Emerging technologies have changed our outlook of the world and the way we interact with our millieu for good. Life will never be tha same. Latest technologies keep coming in almost every day but every one in a while a latest technology changes your thinking radically. This technology is so out of the box that it make you think in a new way. Microsoft Surface computing is just that fundamentally new technology that may alter the computing technology once and forever.
The possibilities are unlimited. You can transfer music , design a template over the coffee or crack a new code. Technology is very magical and this technology from Microsoft is miraculous. Surface computing may not have made its way into the mainstream life but it may soon.
Emerging technologies have changed our outlook of the world and the way we interact with our millieu for good. Life will never be tha same. Latest technologies keep coming in almost every day but every one in a while a latest technology changes your thinking radically. This technology is so out of the box that it make you think in a new way. Microsoft Surface computing is just that fundamentally new technology that may alter the computing technology once and forever.
The possibilities are unlimited. You can transfer music , design a template over the coffee or crack a new code. Technology is very magical and this technology from Microsoft is miraculous. Surface computing may not have made its way into the mainstream life but it may soon.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Mobile Platform
Mobile Platform An Introduction
What is mobile platform and why is it required? We are all familiar with the software. Software is the soul of computer hardware. Without software a piece of hardware is just that , a dead piece of hardware with a chip with circuits among other things. Whether it is a desktop computer running windows or a mainframe, software is required. Now every piece of hardware has its own characteristics. It has its own capabilities and limitations. Mobile platform is a term used to denote the framework which is primarily concerned with mobile computing.
Mobile computing has become very popular with more and more people using mobiles for banking and playing games and even shopping. That is why mobile platform is buzzing with developer activity and more and better latest technologies keep coming in.
But there is an inherent limitation of mobile devices. Whether it is a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant there is a limit to how much memory it has. And how responsive it is when it come to user interaction is the critical part of developing mobile software on a mobile platform.
There are many technologies which are competing to make their space in mobile platform. Sun Microsystems offers J2ME which is a Java Technology based mobile platform and is platform independent. J2ME is used to create games and other software for mobile phones. Microsoft offers Windows Mobile which has been for years in mobile platform space. Android from Google is the latest entry in the field of mobile platform.
Thus mobile platform is an exciting field and there are many technologies competing for making their presence felt in this space.
What is mobile platform and why is it required? We are all familiar with the software. Software is the soul of computer hardware. Without software a piece of hardware is just that , a dead piece of hardware with a chip with circuits among other things. Whether it is a desktop computer running windows or a mainframe, software is required. Now every piece of hardware has its own characteristics. It has its own capabilities and limitations. Mobile platform is a term used to denote the framework which is primarily concerned with mobile computing.
Mobile computing has become very popular with more and more people using mobiles for banking and playing games and even shopping. That is why mobile platform is buzzing with developer activity and more and better latest technologies keep coming in.
But there is an inherent limitation of mobile devices. Whether it is a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant there is a limit to how much memory it has. And how responsive it is when it come to user interaction is the critical part of developing mobile software on a mobile platform.
There are many technologies which are competing to make their space in mobile platform. Sun Microsystems offers J2ME which is a Java Technology based mobile platform and is platform independent. J2ME is used to create games and other software for mobile phones. Microsoft offers Windows Mobile which has been for years in mobile platform space. Android from Google is the latest entry in the field of mobile platform.
Thus mobile platform is an exciting field and there are many technologies competing for making their presence felt in this space.
What Is Netbeans?
Netbeans is a popular Java integrated development environment which is in its version 6.5 right now. Java is a very popular language known for its security and platform independence. But developing in Java can be an arduous process. The syntax of Java is simple but very verbose. You have to write code for everything from designing a GUI to accessing a database. The large software development companies with large software projects can not afford to develop software a a slow pace. These companies have deadlines to meet. The software has to be sleek and maintainable.
In such a scenario there is a requirement for a good IDE which is easy to use and suitable for large applications. Netbeans is the answer to above and more questions. Netbeans makes it easy to develop software in Java Technology. Whether you are developing a desktop application or a web application or even mobile applications , Netbeans provides ease of development to every kind of software project.
For desktop applications Netbeans provides graphical user interface designer which does not require to write a single line of code. You can easily design a complex and sober looking GUI with Netbeans. Moreover, Netbeans makes it easy to connect your front end applications to back end database right from within the IDE. For enterprise applications , Netbeans facilitates designing web forms with all the GUI designing features. Moreover , the boilerplate code generated from the IDE also follows the complex J2EE standards. Same for mobile applications.
While Netbeans offers all of the above features , it is free to download from the site www.netbeans.org. You can order a free DVD on the web site too. Netbeans can be a boon to developers developing applications in Java technology.
In such a scenario there is a requirement for a good IDE which is easy to use and suitable for large applications. Netbeans is the answer to above and more questions. Netbeans makes it easy to develop software in Java Technology. Whether you are developing a desktop application or a web application or even mobile applications , Netbeans provides ease of development to every kind of software project.
For desktop applications Netbeans provides graphical user interface designer which does not require to write a single line of code. You can easily design a complex and sober looking GUI with Netbeans. Moreover, Netbeans makes it easy to connect your front end applications to back end database right from within the IDE. For enterprise applications , Netbeans facilitates designing web forms with all the GUI designing features. Moreover , the boilerplate code generated from the IDE also follows the complex J2EE standards. Same for mobile applications.
While Netbeans offers all of the above features , it is free to download from the site www.netbeans.org. You can order a free DVD on the web site too. Netbeans can be a boon to developers developing applications in Java technology.
Framework Versus Javascript
It has become a very serious debate whether the developers should use a framework which provides ready to use functionality and robustness of a tested system or whether they should use bare bones javascript and CSS to accomplish their tasks.
Using framework has its own merits. You get a runtime which includes tons of functionality and ready made APIs which can be used with the preferred programming language and moreover, these runtimes are professionally developed and are tried and tested and thus can be used right out of the box without breaking the existing code. There are many runtimes available which are suitable for different kinds of functionalities. The most popular runtime is from Sun Microsystems for Java Technology also known as Java Virtual Machine. JVM has the largest installed base and is around for 10 to 12 years. Microsoft's .Net framework is another popular framework if you want to go for Microsoft camp. .Net is relatively new but gaining ground fast. Adobe has launched yet another framework known as Adobe Integrated Runtime or AIR which is used to create rich internet applications. Sun Microsystems also has a runtime for Mobile platform known as KVM . This is just the tip of iceberg. Google has released its own framework for mobile known as Android. Likewise, there Ruby On Rails web framework.
These technologies do a lot to ease the life of a software developer. But there are limitations too. The framework itself is a necessity. It has to be on the machine on which application executes. The framework is very bulky and takes long to download. The developers become limited by the functionalities provided by the framework.
While frameworks are popular , there are many companies who prefer to work on the browser technologies with no framework. This way they do not depend on the framework or platform. Using ubiquitous Javascript and CSS from developing rich and interactive applications has many merits. That is why, Google itself has taken that route. All of the Google Applicatons like GMail, Google Spreadsheets are built on the Javascript and CSS and work marvelous.
It is not easy to decide whether to go for framework technology or javascript technology, but one can take decision based on the circumstances and the nature of applications being developed.
Using framework has its own merits. You get a runtime which includes tons of functionality and ready made APIs which can be used with the preferred programming language and moreover, these runtimes are professionally developed and are tried and tested and thus can be used right out of the box without breaking the existing code. There are many runtimes available which are suitable for different kinds of functionalities. The most popular runtime is from Sun Microsystems for Java Technology also known as Java Virtual Machine. JVM has the largest installed base and is around for 10 to 12 years. Microsoft's .Net framework is another popular framework if you want to go for Microsoft camp. .Net is relatively new but gaining ground fast. Adobe has launched yet another framework known as Adobe Integrated Runtime or AIR which is used to create rich internet applications. Sun Microsystems also has a runtime for Mobile platform known as KVM . This is just the tip of iceberg. Google has released its own framework for mobile known as Android. Likewise, there Ruby On Rails web framework.
These technologies do a lot to ease the life of a software developer. But there are limitations too. The framework itself is a necessity. It has to be on the machine on which application executes. The framework is very bulky and takes long to download. The developers become limited by the functionalities provided by the framework.
While frameworks are popular , there are many companies who prefer to work on the browser technologies with no framework. This way they do not depend on the framework or platform. Using ubiquitous Javascript and CSS from developing rich and interactive applications has many merits. That is why, Google itself has taken that route. All of the Google Applicatons like GMail, Google Spreadsheets are built on the Javascript and CSS and work marvelous.
It is not easy to decide whether to go for framework technology or javascript technology, but one can take decision based on the circumstances and the nature of applications being developed.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Greenfoot An Easy Way To Learn Java Technology
Java is considered a very robust object oriented programming language. Java is so popular that many universities have made it a part of their curriculum. Learning Java technology can be very tough for those starting on their programming career. There is a need for a method which can make Learning Java easy and fun. The best part is that Greenfoot is free. It is based on the BlueJ development environment.
Greenfoot is an interactive Java development environment developed primarily for educational purposes. It facilitates easy development of two-dimensional graphical applications, such as simulations and interactive games which make learning fun. It is mainly aimed at programming education (object-oriented programming with Java) at high school and early university level.
Greenfoot allows implemention of and interaction with objects in the context of "scenarios". Scenarios can differ widely. Those included with the software download include many games like a lunar lander game, an ants simulation, and turtle graphics. Also available are a lift simulation, Conway's game of life, and an on-screen piano.
Once objects are under development, they can interactively be placed into a Greenfoot 'scenarios', and developers can directly interact with these objects to invoke methods.
Sun microsystems itself is involved in this project.Greenfoot is currently being developed at the University of Kent and Deakin University.
Greenfoot is an interactive Java development environment developed primarily for educational purposes. It facilitates easy development of two-dimensional graphical applications, such as simulations and interactive games which make learning fun. It is mainly aimed at programming education (object-oriented programming with Java) at high school and early university level.
Greenfoot allows implemention of and interaction with objects in the context of "scenarios". Scenarios can differ widely. Those included with the software download include many games like a lunar lander game, an ants simulation, and turtle graphics. Also available are a lift simulation, Conway's game of life, and an on-screen piano.
Once objects are under development, they can interactively be placed into a Greenfoot 'scenarios', and developers can directly interact with these objects to invoke methods.
Sun microsystems itself is involved in this project.Greenfoot is currently being developed at the University of Kent and Deakin University.
Java Server Pages The Java Technology
Java Server Pages aka JSP is a very popular Java technology for server side programming. JSP technology makes it easy for software developers to create server side programs and mingle those pages with the static html pages.
Previously , it was very tough to maintain two sets of pages together. On one side, web page designers used to design the static web pages using technologies like html,flash,dreamweaver. On other hand web developers used to program the web sites using technologies like ASP,Cold Fusion.
The problem was that when these two types of pages were combined to form a single running system , many complex problems used to crop up. For instance , there were multiple files to be maintained and this led to confusion. Moreover, maintaining the software or web application became cumbersome. This led to the research for technologies that could eliminate the above problems.
Java camp invented JSP technology which ran on the top of its application server and was compatible with the popular servlet technology. In JSP every thing can be done using html like tags. Some tags are in built and some are third party tags. You can create your own custom tags. These tags are intermingled with the html tags used on static pages. JSP allows developers and designers to work together without any confusion which plagues most of the server side programming languages today.
Campatibility with the servlets, which is a popular server side technology , is a major plus point of Java Server Pages Technology. When JSP pages are deployed on a J2EE application server , and first accessed ,the whole JSP file is parsed and gets converted into a servlet file. From then on, it resides and executes on the server as good old servlet. All the security and scalability features of servlets are available to JSP pages.
Due to above reasons JSP has become a platform and technology of choice for many developers writing code for server side web applications.
Previously , it was very tough to maintain two sets of pages together. On one side, web page designers used to design the static web pages using technologies like html,flash,dreamweaver. On other hand web developers used to program the web sites using technologies like ASP,Cold Fusion.
The problem was that when these two types of pages were combined to form a single running system , many complex problems used to crop up. For instance , there were multiple files to be maintained and this led to confusion. Moreover, maintaining the software or web application became cumbersome. This led to the research for technologies that could eliminate the above problems.
Java camp invented JSP technology which ran on the top of its application server and was compatible with the popular servlet technology. In JSP every thing can be done using html like tags. Some tags are in built and some are third party tags. You can create your own custom tags. These tags are intermingled with the html tags used on static pages. JSP allows developers and designers to work together without any confusion which plagues most of the server side programming languages today.
Campatibility with the servlets, which is a popular server side technology , is a major plus point of Java Server Pages Technology. When JSP pages are deployed on a J2EE application server , and first accessed ,the whole JSP file is parsed and gets converted into a servlet file. From then on, it resides and executes on the server as good old servlet. All the security and scalability features of servlets are available to JSP pages.
Due to above reasons JSP has become a platform and technology of choice for many developers writing code for server side web applications.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Belenix Operating System
Have you ever wanted to try out the features of Solaris Operating System and found the OS to be too bulky to be installed on your machine. Or have you found the OS too geeky. Or have you ever aspired for an OS which could be booted right off a live CD? Belenix is the technology to go for if you experienced any or all of the above.
Belenix is a flavour of open source Solaris operating system developed by engineers at Banglore , which is so small that it can reside on a single CD. And the most interesting part is that it can be booted from CD itself without any hassle of installation. If you have a Belenix CD this flavour Solaris can be up and running in a minute or too. Belenix can also be booted from thumb drive !! It seems we are reaching the age of operating systems where one can carry the whole OS installed in your pocket.
Big things come in small packages. The small size of Belenix does not compromises on features. Belenix operating system uses ZFS , the most secure file storage system. For desktop GUI display this operating system uses KDE. Many shells used in Solaris are available in Belenix too.
Belenix operating systems can be a beginning of new era in operating system technology where operating systems are more portable inspite of being full of features and security.
Belenix is a flavour of open source Solaris operating system developed by engineers at Banglore , which is so small that it can reside on a single CD. And the most interesting part is that it can be booted from CD itself without any hassle of installation. If you have a Belenix CD this flavour Solaris can be up and running in a minute or too. Belenix can also be booted from thumb drive !! It seems we are reaching the age of operating systems where one can carry the whole OS installed in your pocket.
Big things come in small packages. The small size of Belenix does not compromises on features. Belenix operating system uses ZFS , the most secure file storage system. For desktop GUI display this operating system uses KDE. Many shells used in Solaris are available in Belenix too.
Belenix operating systems can be a beginning of new era in operating system technology where operating systems are more portable inspite of being full of features and security.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Microsoft ASP.NET Technology
ASP.NET is the .Net version of the popular Microsoft server side technology known as Active Server Pages. On server side the demand for a secure and reliable acripting is very high which can deliver fast applications with ease of use and maximum developer productivity. ASP.NET is a highly used server side technology which is very secure and can deliver highly configurable web applications.
There was a time when desktop applications ruled the development field. This is not true anymore. The reason being , it was very clumsy to maintain and configure applications when there were multiple clients accessing the same applications. Moreover, security was a major issue. You had to configure security for each and every system that application was installed on. As the number of clients increased , the security configration became more complex. This led to the popularity of server side programming.
With Server side programming paradigm, one need not care about the multiple clients accessing the application. The security of these kind of web applications is also easy to configure because one has to take care of just a server or two. No installation hassles as applications are delivered right from the server to the web browser of client. Client just needs a web browser to access. There are many server side scripting languages in the software development field today like PHP,JSP, ASP .
What sets ASP.NET technology from Microsoft is the ease of use and low turnaround time of a web application software. While JSP and PHP are a good choice too, they do not provide that kind of ease offered by ASP.NET. Microsoft is making more and more web controls available to the development environment Visual Studio 2005. Web Controls are nothing but small components which are ready to be used in a large software product. Microsoft Visual Studio supports intellisense , which is of immense value to a developer.
Many popular web applications are built on the top of Microsoft ASP.NET technology. The most prominent example that comes to my mind is Orkut, the popular social networking site. Today thousands of users access Orkut and it fulfills their requests without going down. This demonstrates the power of Microsoft ASP.NET technology.
There was a time when desktop applications ruled the development field. This is not true anymore. The reason being , it was very clumsy to maintain and configure applications when there were multiple clients accessing the same applications. Moreover, security was a major issue. You had to configure security for each and every system that application was installed on. As the number of clients increased , the security configration became more complex. This led to the popularity of server side programming.
With Server side programming paradigm, one need not care about the multiple clients accessing the application. The security of these kind of web applications is also easy to configure because one has to take care of just a server or two. No installation hassles as applications are delivered right from the server to the web browser of client. Client just needs a web browser to access. There are many server side scripting languages in the software development field today like PHP,JSP, ASP .
What sets ASP.NET technology from Microsoft is the ease of use and low turnaround time of a web application software. While JSP and PHP are a good choice too, they do not provide that kind of ease offered by ASP.NET. Microsoft is making more and more web controls available to the development environment Visual Studio 2005. Web Controls are nothing but small components which are ready to be used in a large software product. Microsoft Visual Studio supports intellisense , which is of immense value to a developer.
Many popular web applications are built on the top of Microsoft ASP.NET technology. The most prominent example that comes to my mind is Orkut, the popular social networking site. Today thousands of users access Orkut and it fulfills their requests without going down. This demonstrates the power of Microsoft ASP.NET technology.
Microsoft Popfly
Microsoft has always been famous from making latest technology more accessible through innovations. This time , Microsoft has released a new online software Popfly using which one can create webpages, mashups and even games without writing a single line of code. Or so they claim.
Playing games is fun and the most immersive experience. And creating games is even more exciting. But creating game was always considered very tough and a art reserved for chosen few. With Popfly this is not the case any more. Popfly lets you create the games using pre-built templates even if you do not know C++. Mashups is a kind of gadget which can be placed on a website and it gathers information from different sources. For instances, you can create a mashup which displays latest technology news from different websites and place it on a corner of your website. It adds variety to your web site content. Popfly can be used to create these kind of mashups easily.
Popfly also provides tools to create full fledged webpages using easy to use tools. Moreover , it can be integrated in to the popular Microsoft IDE Visual Studio and thus it is very good solutions for hardcore developers too.
Microsoft Popfly integrates well with the very popular social networking site Facebook. You can use your online creations directly in your Facebook Account. Mapping information is yet another goodie offered by this Microsoft Latest offering.
Thus Microsoft Popfly is a very good online tool from Microsoft which offers a number of easy to use tools you can use to create many interesting things. Best of all this technology can be used free of cost.
Playing games is fun and the most immersive experience. And creating games is even more exciting. But creating game was always considered very tough and a art reserved for chosen few. With Popfly this is not the case any more. Popfly lets you create the games using pre-built templates even if you do not know C++. Mashups is a kind of gadget which can be placed on a website and it gathers information from different sources. For instances, you can create a mashup which displays latest technology news from different websites and place it on a corner of your website. It adds variety to your web site content. Popfly can be used to create these kind of mashups easily.
Popfly also provides tools to create full fledged webpages using easy to use tools. Moreover , it can be integrated in to the popular Microsoft IDE Visual Studio and thus it is very good solutions for hardcore developers too.
Microsoft Popfly integrates well with the very popular social networking site Facebook. You can use your online creations directly in your Facebook Account. Mapping information is yet another goodie offered by this Microsoft Latest offering.
Thus Microsoft Popfly is a very good online tool from Microsoft which offers a number of easy to use tools you can use to create many interesting things. Best of all this technology can be used free of cost.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
SEO Technology
What is SEO Technology ?
Search Engine Optimization is the process of creating and altering of webpages in such a way that search engines recognize the content of those webpages and when a person search for a particular term , the search engine brings up your pages as high as possible.
There are billions of websites on the web and these web sites deal with various subjects like latest technology, computers, news, careers and many more. Now when people search for the information on the web they type that term into the search engine. The search regularly crawls the world wide web for new and updated content so that it may bring up the most results to the person searching for information. If you have a site dealing with latest computer technology, how the hell are the people going to discover it? Obviously through search engines. But how the search engines like Google , Yahoo are going to discover your website and how can you make those bots of search engines to realize that the content on your site is the most relevant one ? Here comes the search engine optimization aka SEO.
SEO Technology Brings Visitors To Your Website
So SEO technology basically deals with making your webpages important for search engines so that your site gets the best page rank. By the way, page rank refers to the place of a particulars site which is assigned to it by a search engine bot. Higher the page rank the more significant the site is to search engine and morel likely is the possibility that people will turn up on your site when they search for a thing on the web.
So how can the SEO technology be applied to your existing web sites to improve their visibility and web traffic.This is the crucial question because the visibility means everything to the website. If there is no none to visit the website you created , what is the purpose of creating. With SEO technology your website may lie stranded on some lonely island on the vast ocean of world wide web. Web traffic is the reason web sites exist in the first place. Without web traffic a web site is like a flop movie that no one watched. The more web traffic there is to your website the more famous it will be and people wil keep turning up. And how do you bring traffic to your website? Through SEO technology.
SEO Technology Applied
To apply the search engine technology to your web site and to reap the benefits it endows there are certain things to be kept in mind. First you have to know how search engine works. What is the algorithm behind the working of search engine which allows it to retrieve the most relevant information searched according to the keyword. the bad news is that you may never know the exact workings of the top search engines like Google. These giants keep their secrets to themselves. They are never going to divulge the information about what goes on behind the scenes when a search engine crawls the ocean of web pages. Moreover, the search engine algorithm is constantly evolving. Search engines like Yahoo , MSN keep refining their searching softwares aka bot to make them more and more sophisticated. You just can make your best guess in this regard through deep observation of how a particular keyword brings up different pages over time.
The best thing you can do to optimize your webpage for search engines is to try to find out what is the keyword that people use to find the information that is contained in your webpage. First, decide your target audience. Try to think like them. For example, the person looking for the latest technologies in computer field will probably enter any of the keyword
latest computer technology
latest technology in computer
latest computer news
latest news in computers
latest technology trends
technology trends in computers
latest technical trends
trends in technology
Above are some of the keywords which a layman will enter in the Google Search box. So first you know the audience and then you try to find out the keywords they will use to find out the information which is the topic of your web site. Now what ? Next you have to write the content in such a way that it contains your keywords.
If you do this correctly you have mastered the art of optimizing the web pages or search engine technology. You do not have to go for any paid promotion of your site and you do not have to use any softwares which submit links to your website. You just keep sitting and search engines will come and notice your site and rank it high. As the saying goes in Zen Buddhism "The Spring Comes And Grass Grows By Itself".
But the sad truth is that the the spring which , in our case, is a crawler of search engine does not come. Well, not always. So , SEO technology is not just about optimizing your pages but it is a very vast term which involves many things beyond that . More on this later, for now just know that search engine optimization can do miracles to the web traffic you get. Search engine is the biggest tool at your disposal if you want to make your identity on the web and if you want to make your website visible. Its working are hidden and the intricacies of its algorithm is not anybody's guess. But if you can just sense even 10% , the way the search engines work, you can be in control of how your web sites turn up and where. SEO technology is becoming more and more complex by each passing minutes but by applying it effectively you can learn the art of web promotion. The art of making your presence felt on the intricate universe of world wide web.
Search Engine Optimization is the process of creating and altering of webpages in such a way that search engines recognize the content of those webpages and when a person search for a particular term , the search engine brings up your pages as high as possible.
There are billions of websites on the web and these web sites deal with various subjects like latest technology, computers, news, careers and many more. Now when people search for the information on the web they type that term into the search engine. The search regularly crawls the world wide web for new and updated content so that it may bring up the most results to the person searching for information. If you have a site dealing with latest computer technology, how the hell are the people going to discover it? Obviously through search engines. But how the search engines like Google , Yahoo are going to discover your website and how can you make those bots of search engines to realize that the content on your site is the most relevant one ? Here comes the search engine optimization aka SEO.
SEO Technology Brings Visitors To Your Website
So SEO technology basically deals with making your webpages important for search engines so that your site gets the best page rank. By the way, page rank refers to the place of a particulars site which is assigned to it by a search engine bot. Higher the page rank the more significant the site is to search engine and morel likely is the possibility that people will turn up on your site when they search for a thing on the web.
So how can the SEO technology be applied to your existing web sites to improve their visibility and web traffic.This is the crucial question because the visibility means everything to the website. If there is no none to visit the website you created , what is the purpose of creating. With SEO technology your website may lie stranded on some lonely island on the vast ocean of world wide web. Web traffic is the reason web sites exist in the first place. Without web traffic a web site is like a flop movie that no one watched. The more web traffic there is to your website the more famous it will be and people wil keep turning up. And how do you bring traffic to your website? Through SEO technology.
SEO Technology Applied
To apply the search engine technology to your web site and to reap the benefits it endows there are certain things to be kept in mind. First you have to know how search engine works. What is the algorithm behind the working of search engine which allows it to retrieve the most relevant information searched according to the keyword. the bad news is that you may never know the exact workings of the top search engines like Google. These giants keep their secrets to themselves. They are never going to divulge the information about what goes on behind the scenes when a search engine crawls the ocean of web pages. Moreover, the search engine algorithm is constantly evolving. Search engines like Yahoo , MSN keep refining their searching softwares aka bot to make them more and more sophisticated. You just can make your best guess in this regard through deep observation of how a particular keyword brings up different pages over time.
The best thing you can do to optimize your webpage for search engines is to try to find out what is the keyword that people use to find the information that is contained in your webpage. First, decide your target audience. Try to think like them. For example, the person looking for the latest technologies in computer field will probably enter any of the keyword
latest computer technology
latest technology in computer
latest computer news
latest news in computers
latest technology trends
technology trends in computers
latest technical trends
trends in technology
Above are some of the keywords which a layman will enter in the Google Search box. So first you know the audience and then you try to find out the keywords they will use to find out the information which is the topic of your web site. Now what ? Next you have to write the content in such a way that it contains your keywords.
If you do this correctly you have mastered the art of optimizing the web pages or search engine technology. You do not have to go for any paid promotion of your site and you do not have to use any softwares which submit links to your website. You just keep sitting and search engines will come and notice your site and rank it high. As the saying goes in Zen Buddhism "The Spring Comes And Grass Grows By Itself".
But the sad truth is that the the spring which , in our case, is a crawler of search engine does not come. Well, not always. So , SEO technology is not just about optimizing your pages but it is a very vast term which involves many things beyond that . More on this later, for now just know that search engine optimization can do miracles to the web traffic you get. Search engine is the biggest tool at your disposal if you want to make your identity on the web and if you want to make your website visible. Its working are hidden and the intricacies of its algorithm is not anybody's guess. But if you can just sense even 10% , the way the search engines work, you can be in control of how your web sites turn up and where. SEO technology is becoming more and more complex by each passing minutes but by applying it effectively you can learn the art of web promotion. The art of making your presence felt on the intricate universe of world wide web.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
How To Choose Latest Database Technology
The database technology is getting complex by every passing day due to the increasing requirements of industry. And that is understandable. Database is the base and backbone of any organization large or small. A sizable percentage of the softwares available today deal with back end database as they require some place or repository to store data into. When it comes to implementing a database technology into some software that is being developed one is confronted with a very tough choice of whether to buy a very costly database from a database technology vendor which can cost you a bomb or to go for an free database technology which is free and open source. The choice of technology you use for database can affect the whole lifetime and maintenance of software. While it may seem that using an open source technology costs less nothing especially if one in not required to pay anything, it may prove to be a bad decision afterwards when the software vendor refuses to provide any technical support or the support provided is not up to the mark. On other side, if you decide to go for a proprietary software as your company has got deep pockets and is ready to spend money required, you may find out that technical support for that product is excellent but still does not justify the hefty cost that was incurred for buying latest database technology. So somewhere you have to chose your side. Today more and more developers are switching to the open source and free software technology whether it be a database or programming language or an integrated development environment which makes developing a software easy and also which makes it easy to grasp the new technology with in minimum time frame.
As far as databases are concerned, there are many choice for anyone who wants to use a database technology for his development purposes. Take for instance Oracle, the database giant. Oracle database technology is no doubt a clear leader in the field of storage online or offline. But this technology is not for company with a low budget. Only companies which are able to spend huge amount of money can afford Oracle and its technical support. Then, there is Microsoft. With the weak beginnings in the field of database technology through SQL Server , the Microsoft SQL Server today has developed in an industry strength database technology which is the driving force behind many high traffic websites today.
If you look towards open source and free database technology there is MySql . MySQL is perhaps the most preferred database technology today because of its strength, reliability and quick responsiveness. MySql is the permanent companion of the websites which are developed on PHP technology. Today millions of sites are powered by the raw strength of MySQL and the web masters are happy to have chosen the technology which is free , open source and reliable with the technical support and expertise of none other than Sun Microsystems. PostgreSQL is another one of the most advanced databases available today. PostgreSQL is an open source database and it is considered a very strong database among the web masters and applications developers alike.PostgreSQL is often compared to the closed source and very costly databases like Microsoft SQL Server which are based on proprietary code.
Only four of the database technologies are mentioned here . But this is in no way a comprehensive list. There are many more database technologies which are budding and are in their incubation period but very promising. Sun Microsystems offers a very well known database with the name JavaDB which requires very low memory footprint. And I have not mentioned the legendary Foxpro which has been a favorite of many for years and some organizations still store their legacy databases on Foxpro.
So here we are, perhaps a more enlightened about database technology or maybe more confused about which latest technology to use when making a choice of technology. The options are endless and the most suitable depends sole on your budget and the technical support you require from the technology vendor.
As far as databases are concerned, there are many choice for anyone who wants to use a database technology for his development purposes. Take for instance Oracle, the database giant. Oracle database technology is no doubt a clear leader in the field of storage online or offline. But this technology is not for company with a low budget. Only companies which are able to spend huge amount of money can afford Oracle and its technical support. Then, there is Microsoft. With the weak beginnings in the field of database technology through SQL Server , the Microsoft SQL Server today has developed in an industry strength database technology which is the driving force behind many high traffic websites today.
If you look towards open source and free database technology there is MySql . MySQL is perhaps the most preferred database technology today because of its strength, reliability and quick responsiveness. MySql is the permanent companion of the websites which are developed on PHP technology. Today millions of sites are powered by the raw strength of MySQL and the web masters are happy to have chosen the technology which is free , open source and reliable with the technical support and expertise of none other than Sun Microsystems. PostgreSQL is another one of the most advanced databases available today. PostgreSQL is an open source database and it is considered a very strong database among the web masters and applications developers alike.PostgreSQL is often compared to the closed source and very costly databases like Microsoft SQL Server which are based on proprietary code.
Only four of the database technologies are mentioned here . But this is in no way a comprehensive list. There are many more database technologies which are budding and are in their incubation period but very promising. Sun Microsystems offers a very well known database with the name JavaDB which requires very low memory footprint. And I have not mentioned the legendary Foxpro which has been a favorite of many for years and some organizations still store their legacy databases on Foxpro.
So here we are, perhaps a more enlightened about database technology or maybe more confused about which latest technology to use when making a choice of technology. The options are endless and the most suitable depends sole on your budget and the technical support you require from the technology vendor.
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