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Cloud computing is everywhere in the news these days. The big players in the mobile Web and Web services seems to be heading in one direction: to the cloud. And these big players want you to follow their path and use their services. They are not stupid and we should at least look at cloud computing with an open mind since it has a lot to offer.
July 2011
Open source software has played an important part in the growth of the Web. Open source software has helped start volumes of Web sites that otherwise would not have seen the light of day.
October 2010
Mobile computing is without a doubt the hottest thing since the World Wide Web. There is nothing comparable that has happened in consumer electronics since the personal computer. The difference is this time everything will happen faster.
October 2010
The strengths of Java as a programming language and as an development environment from the simplest of desktop applications to complicated server application stacks is indisputable. One of its main strength is the fact that Java applications can be written once and used everywhere thanks to the uniform virtual machines.
October 2010
Linux is gaining on Windows in enterprise computing market share. A new Linux user survey shows significant gains.
October 2010
Mobile Web computing is the hottest thing since the arrival of the World Wide Web. The idea of a computational power associated with cloud computing that fits into the palm of users is fascinating.
October 2010
Recently, we wrote about cloud computing in the Web browser. The Web browser is essential to cloud computing and will be in the unforeseeable future. Today's Web browsers are no longer a software application that displays HTML Web pages marked up with HTML code. Web browsers are also a software execution environment.
October 2008
It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that cloud computing and the Web browser conform a pair that is hard to separate. However, cloud computing is not limited to the browser. The user environment of cloud computing can be handhelds, wireless equipment, other desktop applications, Java applets and Flex applications in addition to typical browser environment. Anyhow, the browser is the most common environment for using cloud computing.
October 2008
Cloud computing is a relatively new concept with many aspects. In traditional computing, you run your own computer. You store your files on that computer, be it a computer behind a firewall or on an accessible server. You know where your files are stored and located. Cloud computing is the opposite.
October 2008
At first glance, "Agile" sounds like one of the buzzwords surrounding the Internet and the Web since the beginning. Certainly, agile is a buzzword. Web sites that cover latest Web technologies often write about agile and agile development and at a frequent rate than before, but agile development is more than a buzzword; it is a methodology for developing high quality software in the 21st century.
October 2008
The Java applets will probably never become an environment for interactive banners and display advertisements. There are much lighter, faster and convenient solutions for such development. However, Java applets provide a viable way to execute powerful applications within the Web browser.
October 2008
With the explosion of data exchange via XML and other data exchange formats there is more data sent back and forth than ever before. The so-called Web 2.0 networks, applications and services, such as Twitter and Facebook, send to their users millions upon millions of data packages every day.
September 2008
Java is the world's most popular programming language. Java is also the preferred choice for enterprise software solutions. The Java programming language has a relatively high barrier of entry, despite its similarities to other C like languages, with a steep learning curve. Often, this barrier is worth the effort since Java and the community around it provides solutions for a wide range of programming tasks and software development of almost any size and complexity.
September 2008