Dictionary Within the Cloud
- 1. Cloud Computing Dictionary Within the Cloud Group:Giraffe Giraffe cppish Giraffe highjoy Giraffe vanvency
- 2. Think about your project plans for a moment.
- 3. Do they all seem to have the same line items for the very first phase?
- 4. Which app-server container, database server, and load balancer should you use? Do you have enough licenses to deploy? Is your app going to share an existing database or do you need to spin up a new instance? How will you back up and monitor the performance of the app? Do you have enough CPU, data, and network resources to adequately scale your app?
- 5. But you are just a programmer, aren’t you? You should have to be able to focus your energy on building the application from the very first day. Let Google worry about scalability, security, hosting, load balancing, bandwidth, and all the other preparatory and peripheral tasks that accompany writing an application!
- 6. About Cloud Computing Revolution in application delivery - Application as a service over the Internet - No software to install or maintain Revolution in application infrastructure - developers could consume raw computing and storage capabilities as a service - without any physical infrastructure to deploy or maintain
- 7. About GAP A revolution in application platforms - giving developers the ability to build applications using high-level building block - without needing to know about the underlying physical machine
- 10. Now comes to our Project
- 11. At First... At first.... The Giraffes—us three—were very excited. OMG!!We are going to construct the cloud ourself?That’s so exciting!! Umm,maybe we should by some second-hand and old fashioned PCs and write some special file system and internet protocols,bla,bla,bla,stuff like that. That really rocks!!
- 12. All right, we were told that it is so impossible in—what? Like 15 days. Okay,but the theme of the software competition is “Cloud Computing” What should the giraffes do to make it more cloudy?
- 13. Recall cloud computing itself To company or enterprise,especially those who can not pay software licenses and expensive super computers. - pay less money to Google and you get much much more amount of requests per day outgoing bandwith incoming bandwith cpu time
- 14. To ordinary user We compute under the big cloud!! -stop installing new software that takes up too much disk space , especially these memory-killer ones!! -we can do our ordinary job on the Internet with the back of the powerful cloud! Recall cloud computing itself
- 15. MS office -> Google Docs PS -> online photo editor .... Though they run within the browser,as long as your network speed is good enough,you can enjoy highly efficient computing.
- 16. Our Goal Since we are all free user of Google App Engine ,we can not store too much data,we don’t have too much bandwidth and cpu time. But... At least we can help ordinary users to replace their software with cloudy ones! That’s very cloudy to me ^.^
- 17. Ordinary dictionary software uses too much disk space to store their dictionaries,also memory killing if they use some OCR techs. Now there’s a second choice for you~~
- 18. Quick galance of the code Browser page context Our url in bookmark Add script to DOM By user click or loaded by browser extension defaultly Giraffe The Google Cloud Host Require receive data Translation Web Services/Translation API/Online dictionary
- 19. Demo Time ^.^
- 20. Quick galance of the code At first,we all thought,umm,this is too simple!!Even naive,too easy to code!! -- since we will not have to construct our own database because we are free user of GAP --we just add a element to the DOM tree of the browser’s current context,it is a javascript file and the script will pop up a <DIV> and show the result from the servlet ! --it’s better if we can move and close the div,and you know,this is simple too!
- 21. Yes,it is just that simple. But it is exactly the JS part that really kills us. Most of the time of this project,we try to write portable js code among various popular browsers . Some code seems portable but it never runs well on IE,and sometimes Opera!! We really appriciate the work that these W3C guys have done but that’s just not enough! Quick galance of the code
- 22. What’s next on the table? Browser extensions for IE Procude more that one online dictionary results.(now we choose Haici ) Use cookie to let user choose dictionarys provided by us and their order to display. Support more languages.(en and cn now)
- 23. Provide API for developers to add a new dictionary via implementing our Java interface. Provice API for ordinary user to add a new dictionary based on user entered URL and their regex expression. Other than dictionary,we can search everything and get every information about the selected text,like news,stocks,blabla What’s next on the table?
- 24. Q&A
- 25. Thanks! Mail to us via FDUBBS recall that the three giraffes are: cppish highjoy vanvency ^.^