Cloud Code?

Bits

I use Google docs a bit, yes its cloud so I use it cautiously. Tonight I decided to peek at the page source code. I have a slight attraction when it comes to looking at source code. Mike Green and a few of you here in the forums write code that gets me thinking a lot. Anyways tonight I peeked at one of my Google docs source code and it blew me away. I am impressed and wonder what the heck it is? It appears to be in a variety of languages and I am thinking this had to be a great team to work with. Perhaps its Cloud Code. Oh my, no one will know who wrote what or how it works!

I only hope that some day it does not take over the world.
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rod1963

Don't worry about it taking over. Sure there are some schlubs who will put the family jewels on it because of the cool factor. But the smart people will just stuff junk on it and keep the vital stuff local.

The Cloud though is just a fancy name for a client-server model with a wireless twist. Nothing really new except for the marketing hype to sell new from the new kid on the block. I remember when it was Sun Micro pimping it and before them IBM.

It made sense when local storage was limited. It doesn't make sense with Ipads and laptops with the memory and storage of a year 2000 era industrial strength server.

Bits

I am not worried, I just think that the source code is amazing.

Zetsu

Bits wrote: »

I use Google docs a bit, yes its cloud so I use it cautiously. Tonight I decided to peek at the page source code. I have a slight attraction when it comes to looking at source code. Mike Green and a few of you here in the forums write code that gets me thinking a lot. Anyways tonight I peeked at one of my Google docs source code and it blew me away. I am impressed and wonder what the heck it is? It appears to be in a variety of languages and I am thinking this had to be a great team to work with. Perhaps its Cloud Code. Oh my, no one will know who wrote what or how it works!

I only hope that some day it does not take over the world.
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Kinda confused here... Did you just go to the page in a browser and hit view source, because if so all I can see is standard html, and some java script ??

Circuitsoft

It's Javascript. Syntax can be a little funky sometimes, but it's a very powerful language. As for visual layout/styles, that's CSS. CSS+Javascript can be extremely powerful. Take a look at acko.net - he's a true artist.

LoopyByteloose

Earlier this year I shifted over from Firefox to Google browser as I was having trouble with Firefox in some instances. But now I find I cannot reach Parallax Forums in Google browser. And I also opened a Gmail account that I am a bit disappointed with.

It seems Google has reached some sort of critical mass where they have just too much code. I am not even sure I am getting fresh searches anymore. I am beginning to suspect that cookies are just putting sites from past searches at the top of a list.

So what looks like impressive 'cloud computing' may be too complex for its own good. We may be ripe for yet another new search engine or having Yahoo or MS take significant market share from Google.

There has been an assumption that the end-user will upgrade his or her machine to support the added load of all this new code, but that may be totally unrealistic as the world economics are not so good.

Zetsu

Loopy Byteloose wrote: »

Earlier this year I shifted over from Firefox to Google browser as I was having trouble with Firefox in some instances. But now I find I cannot reach Parallax Forums in Google browser. And I also opened a Gmail account that I am a bit disappointed with.

It seems Google has reached some sort of critical mass where they have just too much code. I am not even sure I am getting fresh searches anymore. I am beginning to suspect that cookies are just putting sites from past searches at the top of a list.

So what looks like impressive 'cloud computing' may be too complex for its own good. We may be ripe for yet another new search engine or having Yahoo or MS take significant market share from Google.

There has been an assumption that the end-user will upgrade his or her machine to support the added load of all this new code, but that may be totally unrealistic as the world economics are not so good.

After seeing what I seen in a local bar here, I can safely say Google is going to take over the world as Skynet.

No seriously we have an Air force Pilot training base here in my home town, and in this bar they put up their squadron patches up behind the bar, and one of them was the Google logo but instead of letters they turned all the letters into weapons. Ie Jets, Drones, ICBMS yeah it was kinda eye opening ;p .

Circuitsoft

I'm having no issues with Parallax Forums and Google Chrome. As for a new search engine, have you seen DuckDuckGo? It's basically Google behind an anonymizer.

jazzed

The only time I have trouble with Google Chrome is when I use it on Linux or on some web site that uses odd Javascript.

Javascript can get really strange and obfuscated, but it's not bad.

Heater.

Of course that code you are looking at is not "cloud" code. It's there running in your browser. Perhaps as it came from the cloud it's "rain code".

The code running up in the cloud servers is the worrying part. Closed source, unkown stuff, who knows what it is doing. Could be written in any language. Google is keen on using it's own "Go" language there.

I have been using Chrome on Linux a lot for the past few months, never any trouble with these forums in it.

There can always be niggles with JavaScript, there are a lot of new browser freatures comming out all the time which may be implemented in some browsers but not others or implemmented slightly differently as they have not been standardized yet.

One such, and the reason I play with Chrome, is webgl. Glorious 3D accelerated graphics in your browser. Works out of the box in Chrome. Works if you figure out how to enable it in FireFox and Safari. Microsoft does not support it yet.