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Google Chrome OS – A brand new perspective on the OS since Unix/DOS

Finally Google is threatening Microsoft with its new initiative to launch a brand new OS or rather a totally new perspective on the term OS itself. The new Google Chrome OS will run on a new windowing system on top of Linux kernel.

And Google has taken the web browser to another level by announcing the new OS. Let me put things into perspective, when a new computer is built the manufacturer installs a OS  like Windows,Linux,Solaris or Mac, then we install the softwares on top of it. But now Google wants to replace the OS with a browser thats right , a web browser something like your Google Chrome browser or Internet Explorer or Firefox. When you switch on your computer, it will run a Google Chrome Browser and everything else will run within it. But then Google chrome’s interface will more or less resemble current OS’s for the sake of familiarity.

And all your (web) applications will run within the web browser aka new Google Chrome OS. So all these applications will be written by web developers and they will run in your computer just like your current Desktop applications. Though there are many things a web application is not allowed do in present OS context,  you never know where the new lines will be drawn on the Google OS.

And the advantages ? web applications can run within any browser , so even Windows users can use these apps through IE or Firefox or the Mac users through Safari. So it will encourage developers to crank their brains, after all their applications have a chance of wider adaptions compared to current set of Desktop applications.

Google announcing the New Google Chrome OS  on Google Blog.

Google Chrome OS FAQ

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Microsoft to release Windows 7 on October 22 2009

Microsoft announced on Tuesday the expected release date of its much awaited upgrade to Windows VISTA, the Windows 7. Microsooft expects Windows 7 to be widely available by October 22. By that time you can get a retail copy of Windows 7 and most of the PCs will be preloaded with the new Windows.

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Why is it not a good practice to write your JavaScript code in JSP / Servlet Page?

JavaScript is one of the easy as well as difficult par of a GUI developers coding life. It’s a very handy tool when mastered can be very useful. But if you don’t understand it well or if you are trying your hand at it for the first time you can really have nightmares.

 Lets discuss a security exploit very commonly targeted in JavaScript. Sites dealing in financial information, client secure data etc should be extra careful when using JavaScript. The simplest mistake most developers do is to write the script methods in the JSP / Html / Servlet Files (You can extend this to Asp client side scripting as well).

 Basically this way of coding allows users to see your code and along with it unwanted information and  security holes in your code. If application uses JavaScript intensively it is imperative that most of its GUI bugs will be in its JavaScript. And if your site has a reasonably good visibility, hackers will be prowling around WebPages for any information/data.  Show it is always best to separate your javascript as a js file and use it in the code. This also keeps your main webpage clean.

 A simple way to import javascript file in JSP is

 <SCRIPT language=”JavaScript” src=”/src/lib/test.js” “></SCRIPT>

 Many developers use a JSP include  of other JSP files(which at times contains solely javascript). Even this practice is not advisable as this might keep your code clean, but still will expose your code.