Sunday, 30 May 2010

Symbolic AI – Basic Lambda Calculus 1

This post will explain some of the basics of Lambda Calculus, mainly Alpha-Conversion and Beta-Reduction. We’ll also see a quick example of a simple sentence.

This post is being written with me being slightly ill… so some bits may make no sense whatsoever – sorry :(

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Nida’s Awesome Distributed Systems Notes

Hi everyone,

My name's Nida and I wrote some really awesome notes that James even uploaded to his webspace for me - but I forgot to put the link on the blog! Gah! Silly me!

Here's the link to them.

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

ACID

This is going to be a very quick post, mainly because so many people have asked me what ACID means.

This post applies to a lot of topics / modules; but mainly to Databases and Distributed Computing.

Representation State Transfer - REST

Now for the final section about these architectures. This post will cover the aspects concerning the REST Architecture. It really simple to grasp the concept of it, so lets take a look!

Distributed Computing – SOAP

No, this post is not about the slippery block of nice smelling soap! SOAP in Distributed Computing is another form of message exchanging between peers, and here we describe how it does this.

Service Oriented Architecture – Part (2/2)

This is the second part to SOA’s, in this post we’ll have a look at Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM’s) and other various things to finish of this section.

Service Oriented Architecture – Part (1/2)

Over the next – possibly – 2 or 3 posts, i am going to be posting about SOA, Services and MOM’s. Then they’ll be a post about SOAP, then finally one about REST. All of which are Architectures for Computing in their own right.

However, this post will mark the start – explaining in detail what SOA really is, what a Service is, as well as MOM’s (i will try a reframe from ‘ya mom’ jokes)  :)