Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
I am more and more in favor of having my data ‘in the cloud’, since if you travel around, even between home and the office, there’s not much point having al your data on one physical machine if it’s stuck under your desk.
Saving your data to the cloud is one thing, but Ghost have a virtual desktop service where you can run your OS remotely from their servers. Might be worth checking out at some point.
If you weren’t at JavaOne this year or you missed some of these, there were a number of podcasts recorded in the Community Corner area, and they are all available for download here.
The W3C’s direction with web standards was heading towards a strict and true XML standard for HTML, starting with XTML 1.0 which was really not much more than well formed HTML4.0. Recently though, from competing pressure from the browser vendors to develop technology in new directions with more focus on adding support for new rich features for developers, the W3C cancelled XHTML2.0, conceding to the general direction the industry is taking with HTML 5.0 instead.
Whlle Google is busy building out it’s Chrome OS strategy, Microsoft is also working on a research project, Gazelle, to build OS-like features into the browser.
In the near future are we going to see more thin client computing devices with not much more than internet access and a browser? When you think what the majority of home users use their PCs for, then low cost internet terminals may be ready for the home user market?