Some ways to transfer and store stuff for.. err... more great justice!
There are a lot of ways to store and stream, share and retrieve data these days. The diskettes and zip drive days are gone, as with the tape drives and punch cards before that. Moore's Law keeps us busy making smaller and more efficient storage for holding data. Fortunately, the data is also being handled better and faster. We've got huge RAM, thumb drives, massive cloud storage, Google Drive, DropBox, and fast solid state/SATA/HDD local storage! It's amazing!
More stuff to look into for the neophyte scientist, or casual browser... We've got the old web hosting via FTP (File Transfer Protocol,) REST API's sending formatted data to queries such as AJAX GET calls which asynchronously toss the data into tables, or create site elements or even pages from them. Drupal, SQL-based, mySql-based, UDBC/JDBC and other database frameworks similarly allow for back-end file-sharing beasts which efficiently store and format data, provide statistical analysis, or secure secret digits for secure and speedy handshakes. There are also Java Servelets, JSON stringified objects, BLOBS and a great deal of other entities that make our life easier in the background of our comfortable, intuitive UI's. Everyone shares files, so it's good to take a step back and look at the system to understand just how easy we have it!
Hi Justin,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you really know your database side languages. I didn't know what Drupal was and I did some research into it. It sounds really interesting, so thank you for sharing that piece of knowledge with me. Great post about file sharing by the way. I agree that data storage is increasing exponentially while data storage devices are becoming cheaper. I personally use DropBox and I love the service. It provides easy access and sharing with friends, family, and classmates. I also read over the extra post about file sharing and found it very insightful. Great post again and keep it up!
Good article and well written. I liked how you started with punch cards and zip drives. I had almost forgot how primitive file transfers used to be. And I appreciated the list of various file transfer tools. I am little confused as to how the database fit into the file sharing category. I am not saying the don't I just don't feel like you made a connection here. I also would like to see some links to find more information. I think your users would benefit from more reading on this topic. Thank you for your post. It was my pleasure reading it!
ReplyDeleteHi Justin,
ReplyDeleteThis is a good blog. It has mentioned many kinds of language. You also introduced a brief history of computer storage. You really know a lot!
But I have to say that you introduction about languages is too short of even with a single term. So this would make me confuse with that. Hope you can make it longer!
Anyway, thanks for your blog.
Updated a bit to make it flow better, thanks guys. I ended up writing this half asleep and in a hurry. Usual fare. Take care!
ReplyDeleteHi Justin,
ReplyDeleteWell written and very informative post. I agree with Steve, sounds like you are very familiar with back end and data based system. I'm not familiar with UDBC or Drupal. I used once BLOBS data type to store and download jar file in mySQL database. It is good to know all web hosting and API based file sharing system.
Good work!