The Future of Internet

The next 20 years, by 2033, there might be more than 80 billion devices connected to the Internet [1]. In this post I proposed three key points that will change the internet technology from the current era.

The openness

The open source technology was well developed and impressively increased in quantity of products, apps and platforms. There is also a growth in open hardware technology. The giant in IT market like Google has released its Android to the community so they can contribute more. Other companies such as IBM, Redhat, and Canonical have invested in open source technology. Mozilla Firefox as the most used web-browser is also an open source technology succeeded the Netscape browser [2]. The current trend also shows significant increment on the use of opensource licence like MIT and GPL for public software. Choose the free and opensource license if you want to contribute to the future of the internet. Here is the guideline.

How-to: Menambah Akun Dropbox [multiple account] di Ubuntu

Dropbox adalah aplikasi cloud dan file share/store terbaik saat ini. Dengan aplikasi ini, kita bisa menyimpan file di handphone, tablet maupun komputer. By default, kita hanya bisa memasukkan satu akun dropbox pada aplikasi dropbox untuk PC, baik Windows (XP, Win 7 dan Win 8), Mac OS ataupun Linux/Ubuntu. Namun, jika kita merasa kurang, kita bisa menambah akun dropbox tersebut (multiple akun) dengan sedikit trik di bawah.

Ikon satu akun Dropbox pada Ubuntu ikon panel

Multiple akun Dropbox pada Ubuntu ikon panel

Langkah-langkah untuk menambah akun Dropbox pada aplikasi Dropbox di Ubuntu adalah sebagai berikut (dengan asumsi kita sudah menginstall Dropbox terlebih dahulu).

Installing and Building Web App with Google App Engine on Ubuntu (Hello World)

As part of the Udacity's web developement course, the problem set 1 required the online student to submit his/her first web app by using Goole app engine. Here are my step-by-step to make "hello word" (actually it is "hello udacity") application by using Google app engine (python version) on Ubuntu 12.04.

What is Google App Engine? From the Google definition, Google App Engine lets you run web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users

Installation 

Step-by-step:

1. Download the Google App Engine from http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html
2. Install the Google App Engine, on Ubuntu:

$ unzip google_appengine_1.7.7.zip 
$ mv google_appengine ~

3. Make path to our Goole App Engine, change the computer name with yours.

export PATH=$PATH:/home/computer_name/google_appengine/

4. Make the path permanently

/home/computer_name/.profile

Then, in .profile  once again input the path in step 3:

export PATH=$PATH:/home/computer_name/google_appengine/

Writing the first App

Step-by-step: