Google App Engine Blows My Mind

It seems like every time Google releases a product it’s a game changer. Google App Engine is just another one of those products.

GAE allows a developer to easily write an application in Python and deploy it to a massively scalable infrastructure. It seems like a step up in both power and abstraction from Amazon’s Elastic Cloud.

With so many cool things included like Python, Django and Google’s persistence backend a short blog post like this can’t possibly due it justice. If anyone has the connections to hook me up with an account I’d like to do some experimenting and blog about it.

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April 10, 2008 | Filed Under python, Google | Comments

Finally Gmail Offers IMAP

It is finally available.

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October 31, 2007 | Filed Under Google, gmail, geek stuff | Comments

Google Tech Talk @ Clepy

The August 6th Clepy meeting will be a good one. We have Brian Fitzpatrick, the Engineering Manager of Google’s Chicago office, presenting. The meeting as at AG between 18:30 and 20:30.

Please let us know if you plan an attending. Posting a comment here would be fine. We just need to be sure that there will be enough food. There will be swag in limited quantities.

Possible presentation topics:

“How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)”
“Subversion for Perforce Users: Out of the Fire and into the Frying Pan”
“The Google OSPO, Google Code, and Packrat”
“Apache Lightning Talks”
“Version Control with Subversion and Tools Best Practices”
“cvs2svn: Making Apples from Applesauce”
“Apache: When the Code Isn’t Enough”

Hope to see you there!

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August 4, 2007 | Filed Under clepy, Google | Comments

Google Reader Enhancement Needed: Dup Remover

I have an idea for an extremely simple but useful feature. I want duplicate posts removed. I subscribe to a ton of RSS feeds and feeds that are aggregations of other feeds. This leads to a large amount of duplicate posts.

For instance, traceback.org is listed on Planet Python. Any post tagged with Python will show up on the Planet feed. Now lets pretend that you saw one of my Python posts and decided you liked some of my other content. Subscribing to my blog will lead to seeing my Python posts twice.

Google can I have this feature? Some friends have informed me of ways to do this on other software, but right now I am liking Google Reader.

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March 4, 2007 | Filed Under Google | Comments