Will I dream Dave?
I thought the memorable line from 2001: A Space Odyssey would be a fitting title to my first blog post. Mostly because it was one of the main influences that led me to become a computer geek. I remember spending sleepless nights wondering how a machine could dream. Of course I didn’t have the benefit of a college education and multiple sci-fi books to contaminate my imagination back then. I think I finally decided it was possible, but it would probably require more computational power than what my Commodore VIC-20 could manage. A few years later I became enthralled with the Apple Mac SE-30, it was based on the Motorola 68030 processor and I had to have one. Well, I didn’t have that kind of cash back then, so I had to wait about 20 years until I could buy one for $2.00 at a used computer store. I still want to get apache running on it so I can server a web page from the coolest computer ever. Maybe I’ll do a blog post on that sometime.
Anyway, after reading the last paragraph you probably have a pretty good handle for how much time I spent alone in my room between the ages of 9 and 33. I’m still imagining how to make a computer dream I guess. I plan to use this space to talk about all kinds of cool technology. I’ll post a lot about Java and related technologies like Spring. I’ll also talk about Perl, Python, C++, design patterns, natural language processing, agile software processes, artificial intelligence, and any other cool topic that crosses my mind.
Working at Appistry has afforded me the opportunity to build my own virtualized fabric in my house. So when I start discussing something like lambda reduction and show some code samples, I’ll probably expound on the idea of how I used it on my application fabric to solve some cool problem. If anyone thinks of something fun to do on a virtualized grid compter, let me know and maybe I’ll give it a try and write a post about it.
