A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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Softlaunch … no fanfare … Mind Traffic Control This is my first Google Application Engine application. A kind of next-action list for the Twitter generation. Basic instructions : 1) You need a Google account to login (eg. Gmail) … it’s a GAE app. 2) There’s a blue box for inputting tasks you need to do.…
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I’ve now been playing with GAE for a couple of weeks, and it’s still looking pretty good. I’ve now got an Orkut developer account so I can make Orkut widgets tethered to a GAE based service. Meanwhile looks like GvR has been doing some cool stuff within Google with internal development tools, and has just…
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The change in mindset needed for GAE
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Zed Shaw’s take on GAE is entertaining.
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Now this is very cute : [(f.title,f.key()) for f in db.GqlQuery(“select * from Film order by title”)] See that? A GQL (query language for GAE) query object automatically supports iteration, so you can use it in a list comprehension.
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OK … better start finding out about Google App. Engine Damn! Don’t think I was in the first 10,000 applicants for a beta … got the downloadable development environment though … watch this space … Update : Actually, I did get one … 🙂
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Ruby on Javascript VM?
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Sometimes you need to take a step back from a problem, to see the forest for the trees. GeekWeaver was being held up by something that seemed a rather complicated knot; one that I’ve wrestled with a number of times but never really untangled to my satisfaction. So last night I decided to restart with…
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Sweet Expressions … great idea for making S-Expressions more like other, more readable programming languages without losing their power (such as generality, macros, quasiquoting, homoiconicity, and easily-manipulated program fragments). Hat-tip Folknology
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Wow! I need to get into Buildout. Update : Good blog-post accompaniment
Got any book recommendations?