2008-04-16
Google needs to change their motto
From "Don't be Evil" to "We don't need to be Evil".
because its true.
This yahoo/msft/aol/newscorp thing is just noise to them.
James pointed me to Latrz, which to me is a delicious clone. I'm guessing it was written in a day. My recent experience and It highilghts a couple of things to me
- Having the user api just makes sense for ...
2008-04-12
How does a lack of joins stop web developers from writing slow apps?
on a previous post about appengine, noodl asked a good question
How does a lack of joins stop web developers from writing slow apps? Surely having to write more queries or denormalising a schema makes things slower?
I was doing to write a long diatribe here (actually I did, and just deleted it).
by removing joins it forces the developer to work, and stop and think about what ...
2008-04-10
appengine - more thoughts
so i had some more time to thing about appengine, and the biggest problem I can see is the lock-in. all the other things are minor
Krow weighs in about people's complaining about lock-in. Initially I thought so too, as there is no equivalent to GQL. but then I remember about hbase and hypertable. Once some open source guy writes a GQL clone the platform is open ...