A Delayed Post
I don’t know why it takes so long to post something but significant things happened in last few weeks which made my entire life to change. I’m not going to share it at the moment, may be in time.
So, I want to mention some events that I wanted to write about but I couldn’t.
JavaDay Istanbul ’09, yes, I was there and events were based on JavaFX as JavaOne ’09. Some photos from the day.
I liked touch wall (I made this word) JavaFX demonstration, it was funny and I also, admired the women who has spoken very fast and without any break in one hour about mysql.
I know, many things happened about technology but the last one is Google Chrome OS. An OS with annoying features for Microsoft and Apple. I support you guys go ahead you really force some old guys to improve their products like Microsoft IE.
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Are you there?
Yes, but I’m a little busy with work, university, personal life … etc. I know it couldn’t be a reason not to blog but I do it, I usually complain about being busy when I don’t write anything. Anyway, it has been two weeks without blogging and so many important things happened that I want to mention. I can’t talk too much about them, in brief;
First thing is Google Wave If I have to tell what I think about Google Wave in one word, it’d be amazing. Imagine that something like an operating system runs on web and it is real time. I can’t believe that Google is killing Microsoft day by day and Microsoft still sits and watches it.
Second, RIA, I had a chance to test Adobe Air with Flex 3 and Microsoft Silverlight. I’m not going to compare and contrast these two technologies but I like the idea behind Adobe Air and Flex 3.
And last one is about Windows 7, it is much better than Vista but I’m not satisfied what I’ve seen. It is faster than Vista on file operations like copy, paste …etc. However, I can’t say same thing for all. In general, it works fine but still far behind Apple’s Leopard.
I’m having trouble with my stomach for two days, I might have food poisoning but I’m not sure that, just trying to get rid of it.
Google and Future of the Semantic Web
Yesterday, Google announced support for lightweight semantic markups; RDFa and microformats which is a big issue for the future of web and also know as semantic web. Yahoo has been making experiments with RDFa and microformats with their new search engine called search monkey. I assume Microsoft’ Live and Powerset will add same (may be full RDF) support soon.
So, the important point is; it is a big push to the current web to shape it more meaningful way. Why should a market dominant do it? Google search engine is powered with NLP (Natural Language Processing) and it works very well but it may be useless when compared future data on the web. NLP is a powerful technique which is aimed to translate spoken languages to machine ones to process, analyze and use it. There are many languages in the world which Google has to deal them separately and it is doing it very well. So, what is the challenge? It is social networks.
It is easy to manage your web site or web page content by yourself and ensure that it is well formed and correct for search engines. However, it is impossible to manage user distributed data over social networks. And, the easiest way to do it; add semantics to the content which will help search engines (or whatever you have) to process it.
I guess this push will improve the feature of the web and also semantic web. It seems we are going to see more tools, libraries, frameworks built in support for RDFa and microformats.
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Why Python?
Why Python? I have been thinking and asking myself why I have chosen python while there are so many programming languages. Is it powerful, scientific, elegant, community, different??? You can find all of it in any programming language (or platform) so, what is it? Yesterday, I found something that can help to answer this question. The Python Paradox article written by Paul Graham. He says:
“… Python programmers are smart. It’s a lot of work to learn a new programming language. And people don’t learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren’t satisfied with the languages they already know…”
Neither java nor c# describes me, the closest one is python.
Software Development & Deployment with Google App Engine
I have been developing applications for 5 years and worked on wide range of programming languages and platforms. If we exclude my undergraduate studies (like; tiny applications working on embedded devices or cross platform compiled iphone apps … etc.) briefly my experience on software development;
- php on unix/linux
- java/j2ee using hibernate on unix/linux
- java/jee using glassfish on unix/linux
- asp/asp.net on windows
- python using django unix/linux
- python using django on google app engine
So, far I have dealt with many programming languages, platforms and most of them have painful development/deployment processes except one. Google App Engine is the only platform that I have never had problems with software deployment. I doesn’t matter which box you have (mac, win, linux ..etc) for development, deployed application works as it in your local. You don’t have to worry about changes about model, app engine handles it smoothly. It is amazing. I have never seen such a thing before. Even I had problems with php but not with app engine. That’s why Google like companies must exits, they are the real innovators.
Oracle to Buy Sun For $7.4 Billion
I shocked when I saw this news about Oracle to Buy Sun. Now, I feel more comfortable for switching from Java to Python. Now, I have to switch from MySQL to postgresql. I hope Oracle will pay more attention to open source community to improve Java.
Best South Park Episodes Part 2
I have shared some of my favorite South Park Episodes and now, here is the rest of my list.
- Season 6 Episode 7 “Simpsons Already Did It”
- Season 8 Episode 8 “AWESOM-O”
- Season 10 Episode 8 “Make Love, Not Warcraft”
- Season 11 Episode 2 “Cartman Sucks”
- Season 12 Episode 9 “Breast Cancer Show Ever”
- Season 13 Episode 2 “The Coon”
I think South Park made really good start to Season 13 with “The Coon” which I have blogged about the mysterious hero “Who Is Mysterion?”. I still seek the identity of the Mysterion Kid. If you know something about it, please share it with me. May be we have to stay and wait and see what will happen in the following episodes.