Today’s interesting links: Tips on Writing Scalable Apps [Google App Engine Blog] XEmacs is Dead. Long Live XEmacs! [Stevey’s Blog Rants] Zealous Autoconfig [xkcd.com] Another week (or two) in CouchDB [plok] Google App Engine + Google Data APIs: A Match Made on the Web [Google App Engine Blog] Oosah: A Hub for Your Personal OnlineContinue reading “Links for 2008–04–29”
Monthly Archives: April 2008
More CouchDB Updates
Jan Lehnardt posted some more CouchDB updates.
Links for 2008–04–22
Today’s interesting links: Start Pages: The Next Social Networks [ReadWriteWeb] More on Localized Folder Names [Daring Fireball] Code Review: Start your App Engine and run the cloud offline with your docs [Google Code Blog] Techno [xkcd.com]
Links for 2008–04–15
Today’s interesting links: On the App Engine lock-in [Intrepid Blog] Why There Aren’t More Googles [Paul Graham: Unofficial RSS Feed] Is the Mobile Web Dead? Some Mobile Entrepreneurs Say Yes [ReadWriteWeb] Is Google App Engine a Lock-in Play? [O’Reilly Radar — Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies] Math Paper [xkcd.com] Persistent Storage for Amazon EC2 [AllContinue reading “Links for 2008–04–15”
Quote of the Day
From the Google AppEngine mailing list: A good way structure db’s for big table is to pick the ugliest solution and that’s the one that will work the best.
Relational Databases are Dead, Long Live Relational Databases
Google’s BigTable — GQL Reference: A GQL query cannot perform a SQL-like “join” query. A Google employee (second post by “ryan”): We’ve had good results when we take a step back and think about our data models from a different angle. Most app developers are accustomed to designing SQL data models in a certain way, with aContinue reading “Relational Databases are Dead, Long Live Relational Databases”
Links for 2008–04–08
Today’s interesting links: Early notes on GoogleApps [Scripting News] INFDaily: Photo Editor’s Pants On Fire [PhotoshopDisasters]
Google AppEngine launched
Google is going to allow anyone to run applications in their infrastructure, meaning using their super scalable database system and other server infrastructure. I just signed up to try it out, but was too late (they allow in 10,000 people only, apparently that many signed up already). You can find more information here. The coolContinue reading “Google AppEngine launched”
For my Dutch readers: Zef.nu is back
If you are Dutch, Belgian or otherwise Dutch speaking. Check out the new Zef.nu. Not only does this website have an incredibly cool URL, it’s also my Dutch website and contains none of the geeky stuff you find here. Before it got hacked it contained only personal stories, now it’s quite different. Ik zie jullieContinue reading “For my Dutch readers: Zef.nu is back”
