Enter The New Year
January 1, 2010
Enter The New Year
In the Land of Geek Speak, we all know that everything done in computing is either a 1 or a 0. That is what all of our typing, images, documents, anything we send or do with a computer or on the internet is reduced to a series of 1’s and 0’s. In the early days when memory was small on computers we would code down to the bit. That’s right, the bit, 16 bits to the byte, and we would change a single bit. Now memory is cheap and we use object oriented programming. No longer do we code, compile and see what it looks like. Now we drag and drop.
How things have changed. The King of Code bloat is Microsoft. The antithesis of this now seems to be Google. Why would Google champion this cause of smaller, faster is better? Because they are trying to manage all the data of the entire world. Microsoft did it for the PC. Their answer to everything was More. More memory, More hard drive space. But Google is working to deliver all of the content of the world over a network that is seeing more and more demand put on it daily.
Here we go into the next 10 years. The tidal wave of 1’s and 0’s being pushed over the net isn’t about to slow. It will continue to grow, larger and larger. The question is when is there so much data the system can’t handle it. We could find out in the next 10 years. How “scalable” is the world of data communication?
We are the rats, LOL. The Piper says it is time to reduce the bloat, loose the weight we push through the net and get slimmed down. The new emphasis for Geeks writing code is back to where it all began. Keep it lean, Make it small, Make it fast.
For those of us as Geek end users, the Piper has sent out the message, it might not be clear to all yet. But it is clear, the buzz word from the Big G is Small, Faster.
I for one am ready. I’m tired of sites that take 10 seconds to load. I’m tired of all the widgets, and ads, and shiny blinking crap that is being pushed to my browser. I’m ready.
It means I have to do a lot more work than in the past. It means I might have to sacrifice some things I like and weigh how valuable some of my favorite plugins and widgets are to those coming to the Lab and my other blogs.
We often begin a New Year by cleaning out closets, and leaning down our own baggage/poundage. Now is a good time to do the same for our blogs and websites. What do you say? Ready to dig in and make some changes?
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