Google App Engine Blog:
When choosing a platform to power a new application that will be used by popular media sites, some of the criteria we look for are scalability, ease of deployment, and ease of management. As with the nature of news and media, (Read More)
Cloud Computing:
Kicking off my series of videos from last week’s Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, here is a chat I had with Oren Teich, of Heroku. Heroku, if you’re not familiar is a 2-yr old Platform as-a-Service company targeting Ruby developer (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
Here are some of the recent developments from the greater developer community.deferred.deferNick Johnson recently added a new module to the App Engine Python SDK which allows you to use the task queue service to execute defer (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
Congratulations to Audrey Roy -- her "Price It By Phone" application won the Google App Engine + Twilio developer contest that ran from September 21st to October 4th. Audrey will receive $1000 in Google App Engine credit, an (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
We're pleased to announce that you can now submit and comment on App Engine news and articles on a new App Engine specific section of the popular social media site, reddit. Our subreddit is for any articles, blog posts, or ot (Read More)
Nico's shared items in Google Reader:
When XMPP support in Google App Engine was announced, it occurred to me that it would be pretty easy to use it to do a PubSubHubbub-to-XMPP bridge. Other things came up, but I was reminded again of the possibility when a "Oh, (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
We hope you've been enjoying the new XMPP API we shipped in App Engine release 1.2.5. We're always impressed with the cool scenarios our developers create!A couple of Google engineers found the time to create cool App Engine (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
This week, Google App Engine and Twilio challenge you to build voice or voice-enhanced applications hosted on App Engine that use Twilio's voice application API to make and receive phone calls. Submit your app by October 4th (Read More)
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from Google Reader:
[Editor’s Note: This afternoon at about lunch time, I got pinged on the new hire of Harper Reed, former CTO at Threadless, as something called a Nepholologist at the Rackspace cloud division. In fact, I was pinged about six (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
It's September and the fall conference calendar is starting to fill up. Members of the App Engine team will present at these conferences: join us if you are in the area, and feel free to tweet @app_engine if you want us to pa (Read More)
Delicious hotlist:
Photo by s2photoWith the economy reeling and VC’s spending less and less on startups, developers have had to adapt how they create sites. Because of the world’s economic state, we’ve had to change how we develop.Some may see (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
I work for Norex, a web development company in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As part of our sponsorship of the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Halifax (Canoe '09), we developed an application to deliver real time race re (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
As recently announced on the Google App Engine Blog, the 1.2.5 SDK for Python now includes a GUI for creating, running, and deploying App Engine applications when developing on Windows. We call this the Google App Engine Lau (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
App Engine SDK 1.2.5 released for Python and Java, now with XMPP supportToday we are releasing version 1.2.5 of the App Engine SDK for both Python and Java, our first simultaneous release across both runtimes. We're excited a (Read More)
Daily DIY:
Opera 10 final is out, Chrome just turned one year old, and Firefox 3.5 has settled into stability. It's time once again to break out the timers and speed test today's web browsers.Like all our previous speed tests, this one (Read More)
Delicious hotlist:
Web optimization is a vital part of web development and maintenance but also something often overlooked by webmasters. Just think of the money you can save, and how it can potentially help increase your readership and traffic (Read More)
java.blogs Recent Entries:
During the Twitter DDoS attacks, there was a thread on the Twitter API group about using PubSubHubbub to get low latency notifications from Twitter. This would be an alternative to the streaming API that Twitter already has. (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Salesforce.com has continued to expand the capabilities of Force.com, its platform to build and deploy enterprise applications. The company recently rolled out Force.com Sites, which lets companies build and run their applica (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Meet the Real Live Search, a web app with the tagline, “your browser and Bing’s AJAX APIs make sweet love“. No, this isn’t real-time in the sense that you can search services like Twitter (though Bing has been making headway (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
Every month or so, we compile a list of interesting things in the community related to App Engine. Here are some recent projects and resources that you might find interesting:Ubisoft's TickTock on FacebookUbisoft has released (Read More)