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I love this stuff... APOD rocks! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov
I've done a good bit of thinking about cloud computing and its potential impact on the way software is written. I think that i "get" cloud computing. As i've stated previously, the fact that cloud computer levels the playing field so dramatically makes it a disruptive technology. What I haven't figure out yet is this: What can we do with cloud computer that we couldn't do before? We could always store data off the box. We could always do processing off the box. Now it's just more massive. Have I...
Windows Azure + XNA == An easy to build MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game)? Perhaps this puts the popular genre into the reach of open source and freeware developers
If you're going to reformat source code, please don't do anything else at the same time I can't tell you how many times that I have run into this while doing code reviews. Keep your formatting changes and your real code changes separate for the sake of code reviewers, anyone who will have to look at the change history of your source code, and for your own sanity. As an aside, Beyond Compare does a pretty good job of ignoring white-space changes if you select the option...
I was doing some research tonight on Trie data structures based on a random thought I had on scanning streams. While searching I found NIST's Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. All I have to say is AWESOME. It gave me a cool idea. I'm writing an app that is going to pick a data structure at random. I'm going to run it every couple of days and, read up on the algorithm/data structure and post it to this blog. Hopefully I will learn a lot in the process and so will anyone who stumbles across...