A few weeks ago, I joined Google’s team of developers to take part in their efforts to create the greatest Google search engine in the history of the internet. The team had come up with a solution that would allow anyone with an internet connection to enter search queries into a “virtual” search engine — the result would be rendered on a Google search screen. As you know, a query has a keyword in it. That keyword, displayed in a box, would tell you what webpage to enter to get the answer.
I was lucky enough to be assigned to a “team lead for the project”. The team leader, Brian Krzanich, sat down with Google’s team one day in late summer. Together with the other members of Google’s team, they had just finished putting together a prototype for the Virtual Internet. By using the Google search engine, they could create a search engine that would allow a user to enter keywords, and the results of those queries, in a virtual sense.
The result was a pretty complicated solution, one that required all sorts of programming tricks to execute. As Brian talked about his solution, everyone at the meeting was amazed at the efficiency and flexibility his solution offered. In fact, one of the team members called it an “embarrassingly easy” project. Everyone started working on it together, and it was completed within the weekend.
During a break in the meeting, Brian chatted with me. He had been listening to my Google search history, and it was obvious that the team leader was someone who was well plugged into the internet community. As I was explaining the project, Brian asked me what I did for a living. I hadn’t done my programming degree, and I was completely stumped by how he could be interested in what I had to say. To make it easier, I told him that I was a data analyst, and I had done a lot of work for a company called Search Analytics. I told Brian about my work as the result was a lot of “fun”, and it was so cool that I could feel the excitement in the room. I think he had the same reaction. As the rest of the team learned of the project, Brian began to feel more and more invested in the project.
Funeral Service for Stephen Rouse, former Media Productions Manager for 7 July.
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Stephen Rouse’s funeral was a very special occasion for the entire 7 July Programming Team. We mourned the loss to 7 July and our good friend and colleague Stephen, who was a part of the 7 July team since 2003 and was dedicated to developing and maintaining a successful evening program. It is an incredibly sad day and we are thankful for the support he will receive from the entire 7 July Programming Team for the remainder of his life.
Before we begin, I would like to thank the staff, members, volunteers and other members of the 7 July Programming Team and of the 7 July Community for all their efforts in supporting 7 July during this difficult time.
A farewell message from Richard M.
“On behalf of the entire 7 July Programming Team…we extend our deepest condolences to Stephen, his family and his many friends at this time of celebration…We extend our best wishes to the Rouse family on their upcoming celebration at a later date.
Stephen, the 7 July Programming Team and the 7 July Community have been honored to work with Stephen throughout his life.
We have had good times together; good triumphs and good times with the 7 July Programming Team and our 7 July Community.
We have been lucky in our successes together and we have been lucky in our failures too.
We have made plans and made memories together, and we have shared our love of news with one another.
We have made sacrifices together — many of which I couldn’t be more proud of — and we have survived together.
We have had success together and we have learned together.
Stephen was a dear friend to us all, to the 7 July Programming Team and to the 7 July Community.
As a proud member of the 7 July Programming Team, I would like to thank these people who will be mourning the loss of Stephen.
I would like to make a promise to the 7 July Programming Team and to the 7 July Community that we will always remember Stephen, he will always be a special member of the team and the 7 July Community, and we will not forget him.
A conversation with John Rouse
I was talking with John and I had been thinking about programming and writing a book for awhile. I was looking for ideas for a book that I could include in it. A lot of what he said was kind of off topic, so I will talk about it. But for the longest time I didn’t have a good way to write. Then I started doing stuff on the Internets and my writing has been better because of it.
If it seems like it is hard work, that is because it is. It is hard work to write in the first place. Some people are great on the Internet, some people aren’t. It takes some time to get it right.
What we try to do is write a book that can be read a thousand times. It will be different for any individual or group. How far along it goes is up to it. The only thing that will stop a group from reading that book will be the time it will take to get through it. That time will be limited. That’s why we try to make it a book that can be read and remembered by people for years. I would say 80% of your audience is going to be your closest friends. If you can make it a book that is like an encyclopedia of all the things you’ve done, then 80% of your audience will be your closest friends.
It’s not for everybody. Not everybody has the same motivation. Some people want to write a book for themselves. Some people want to write a book for their kids. Some want to write a book for their grandkids. Some people want to write a book that they can show to the person that they don’t know and they think they’re pretty good at. Some people want to write the book that they want to read.
What we try to do is write a book that will be readable by everybody. How well that works depends on your motivation. I think what we want to do is write a book that you can’t put down and you can’t put aside and you can’t throw away. That book will be something you look back on and you remember even though it is too large for you to remember the details about it.
A conversation with Steve Rouse
The next time I talk to you about the most important feature of an operating system, this time around I’ll be talking about the hardware — and to my surprise I’ll be talking about the hardware. I don’t know if it has always been like this or… but anyway, I’m excited to talk about it because I think it reveals a lot about the future of computing.
The idea of a hardware ecosystem is one that will be familiar to anyone who has used computers. It seems it is going to take a little longer than I’d expected. If it is a hardware ecosystem on a fundamental level, it may not be a hardware ecosystem at all. But in the second place, it certainly may be a hardware ecosystem that is going to be even bigger, faster, better, cheaper, and better supported than any we have seen before.
It’s not all just about getting better. It also involves getting faster. And it includes getting better, simpler, and more reliable than ever before — a hardware ecosystem that is all about simplicity and reliability — that will be a big part of the future of computing.
It is not just a simple story about getting better, it is a story of getting faster, and getting things to work ‘more’ quickly, and there are different kinds of things, and those things include getting things to work ‘more’ quickly using more ‘less’ stuff. But it is also a story about getting things to work ‘more’ quickly using more ‘less’ stuff than ever before.
With all of that in mind, one of the things we will be talking about here are the things our hardware ecosystem will help to do. What it can do is create a kind of “system of systems.
That is what it can do. And it’s not just about computers. You can go into any factory and see all the computers around doing the same jobs — they are all doing the same jobs because they are all built by the same people, or they all build the same products using the same materials.
Tips of the Day in Programming
Do you have any programming tips of the day? Any questions you need answered? Then, here they are.
Java is a platform-independent object-oriented programming language that is written in a high-level bytecode language similar to C and C++. This bytecode language is a way to describe the machine code that the Java Runtime Environment produces when it executes code that is written in Java. As with typical computer programming languages such as Pascal, C and C++, a set of basic instructions called source code are produced by Java, which can be edited using Java tools. Java is the most popular of the popular object-oriented programming languages, which is why there are so many articles on Java.
Java programs are compiled into bytecode that the Java Runtime Environment reads into a form called jar file, which consists of the original source code, bytecode and a set of classes that provide the basic Java functionality.
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