While still musing on the possibilities of cloud computing, I started to wonder about online games, such as Second Life and World of Warcraft. A large barrier to entry into the online game industry is the sheer cost of the servers. Cloud computing seems to alleviate that burden because the hardware becomes cheap and easily [...]

Earlier I wrote a post on how it is now possible for a single person to have the power of Google because of all the technologies available. Well, the NYTimes went out and implemented the idea before the ink was even dry on my post.  They’ve now proven it is possible, and their post makes [...]

Picking right up where we left off last time, it’s time for some more definitions based on what Steve Yegge says programmers should know. 1. Static / Class Initializer A static or class initializer is the block of code called to create a static or class variable.  It must be called outside of the class [...]