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Link Roundup 04/25

Friday, April 25, 2008 - 3:53 PM
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Link Roundup 04/21

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 11:11 AM
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Link Roundup 04/15

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 5:28 PM
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Link Roundup 04/14

Monday, April 14, 2008 - 4:42 PM
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Pretty short link roundup today:

 

Link Roundup 04/11

Friday, April 11, 2008 - 4:13 PM
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I'm personally pretty excited about the possibilities of Google App Engine, however, it is worth noting that there are some potential pitfalls. Today's link roundup points to a few people's hang-ups with the service. It is my opinion that one would have to weigh these potential problems carefully to determine if the risk is worth the gain.

 

Random thoughts on Google App Engine

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 8:05 PM
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About


Google App Engine is a service that allows developers to deploy web apps that are then run on Google resources utilizing the expertise Google has in scalability and servers.

Language wishlist


Currently Google App Engine supports Python. There is speculation and hinting from Google that more languages will be added. It will be interesting to see which languages will be added first and which ones simply will not make the cut. Personally, I'm not surprised that Python is the flagship language, there has been well documented preference to Python from Google. (Random Google support page shows a .py extension indicating the Python language being used http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/topic.py?topic=1186)

As it is little surprise that Python is currently supported, it leads to the question of which languages will be supported and in what order will languages be brought under the Google App Engine umbrella. My speculation is that Ruby will be the next language adopted followed by Perl. After that, I struggle to determine what will be logical. My personal wish list goes as follows:

  1. Ruby

  2. Erlang

  3. Rhino

  4. Java



In reality, I don't think Erlang will be brought on. I love the language, but I doubt it will be part of the App Engine stack. One of the major benefits of Google App Engine is the fact that Google is going to manage scalability for you. As a result of this control by Google they prohibit you from doing it yourself. Although used by a different name than threading, Erlang's processes would probably be out of the question as well.

What would I create


Honestly, I don't have an idea. I do not yet have an active account. (I hope that changes soon.) As I understand at first, developers are given 3 apps they can create and are unable to delete an app should they change their mind. In other words, choose carefully. If anyone has any suggestions for potential apps, please let me know.

Wrap up


While much more can be said, and has if you track appengine on twitter, that is all I'm going to say at this time other than my opinion. I do believe that Google App Engine is a very significant milestone in cloud computing. I believe it enables people who may have had limited resources but good ideas an opportunity to show the world what they can offer. I'm excited to see what happens.

 

Link Roundup 04/08 Part 2

Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 11:56 AM
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The blogosphere has been quite active today talking about Google's App Engine. This activity has been a very interesting use case for twitter. Due to the newness of the App Engine I wondered how much good content would be available about on this subject. I determined that search engines probably wouldn't have scoured the web quickly enough to get all posts, so I turned to twitter. I used the command "track appengine" and found everything from short opinions, talk about apps, links to blogs, and apparently people showing off that they made it in the top 10,000. I'm not jealous, really I'm not. Buncha snobs anyway! ;)

 

Link Roundup 04/08 (Google Appengine Version)

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I'm posting an early link round up today, but there will be another to follow at the end of the day. The reason for the early post is I wanted to dedicate an individual post to Google's new Appengine that was released last night.

Apparently Appengine was made available for the first 10,000 individuals who signed up. At 6am, I'm on the waiting list. I'd be interested to know just how quickly it took to get 10,000 developers to sign up.

I think Appengine represents a significant milestone, one that I have been waiting for Google to do for quite some time now. We've had cloud computing available from Amazon.com, and I truly feel they paved the way for this. However, for any size deployment you pay. At Appengine, that isn't the case, they quote that it is free to get started:

Every Google App Engine application can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views.


Suddenly, anyone with an idea for an online app can immediately begin prototyping their idea with relatively little overhead cost.

I do see a few drawbacks:

  • Language availability - Currently only Python is supported. In the Appengine documentation, it states other languages may be added. link

  • Pricing unknown - Currently, the pricing structure for going over the free user quota isn't made known to the public. Additionally, you aren't allowed to go over user quota without specifically making a request to Google. Until pricing is made known, I would be wary of putting all my eggs in this basket. However, knowing Google, I'd imagine pricing will be appropriate for the service provided.


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Link Roundup 04/07

Monday, April 07, 2008 - 4:35 PM
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  • What cloud computing really means | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-04-07 | By Galen Gruman,Eric Knorr
    (tagged as: cloud)

  • Official Google Blog: Cone of silence (finally) lifts on the spectrum auction - Wow, google basically was willing to pay for their principles.

  • Eclipse IDE at a crossroads | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-04-04 | By Paul Krill

  • 700MHz spectrum winners detail plans | InfoWorld | News | 2008-04-04 |

  • Mike Downey on Adobe » Seesmic acquires AIR-based Twitter client Twhirl [via ReadWriteWeb] - Someone made money off AIR. twhirl is my favorite twitter client.
    (tagged as: via:twitter)

  • How to Customize your Terminal Prompt -
    (tagged as: terminal osx tips)

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    Link Roundup 04/04

    Friday, April 04, 2008 - 9:44 AM
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    I will more than likely send out another link roundup today, this includes yesterday afternoon's findings. The highlight of today's links has to be the Joe Armstrong interview. I thought it was well done and very interesting.

  • Macworld | iTunes Store now top U.S. music retailer - I think it was me personally who made them number 1

  • Christian Cantrell: Lineup: an Exchange calendar viewer for AIR

  • Episode 89: Joe Armstrong on Erlang | Software Engineering Radio - Impressive interview. Joe talks about the origins of Erlang, concurrency, pattern matching, fault tolerant systems.
    (tagged as: erlang)

  • Headius: Shared Data Considered Harmful - I love Ruby, but it is interesting to note how these problems with Ruby are avoided by design decisions of Erlang.
    (tagged as: concurrency ruby)

  • Motorola: WiMax will be big -- with or without Sprint | InfoWorld | News | 2008-04-03 |
    (tagged as: wimax)

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    Link Roundup 04/03

    Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 12:12 PM
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    Only thing to note is that the link content was generated using Erlang. I wrote a program that pulls data from my del.icio.us account and formats the links for me. It isn't completed, but it works.

  • Twitter / dan mcweeney: TextMate > Bread.Slice()...

  • Ted On Flex: Why Erlang?
    (tagged as: erlang flex)

  • InfoQ: RESTful Services with Erlang and Yaws
    (tagged as: erlang via:twitter yaws rest)

  • Damien Katz: Signs You're a Crappy Programmer (and don't know it)
    (tagged as: programing via:mike)

  • dilbert2006112580402.gif 600×202 pixels
    (tagged as: dilbert)

  • Leopard Technology Series for Developers: Broadcast Your Application's Content with iChat Theater
    (tagged as: applescript ichat)

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    Link Roundup 04/01

    Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 2:41 PM
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    Well, I am not allowed to mock Matt on his spelling. I released ServiceTrax's roadmap with two glaring spelling mistakes today. I'm trying to pass it off as a April Fool's joke. No one is buying it.

    Speaking of April Fool's jokes, there are some pretty good ones in my link roundup today.

     

    Link Roundup 03/31

    Monday, March 31, 2008 - 4:55 PM
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    Today's links actually are a collection of the last few days worth of links, so I apologize for any bits of information that are now a bit stale.

     

    Link Roundup 03/27

    Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 9:02 PM
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    You'll notice either there were quite a few articles about cloud computing/data or I'm just taking an interest in those offerings as many of today's articles are about those subjects.

     

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