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 ...
2008-04-08
Google's Appengine - some initial thoughts
Google has just announced their alternative to Amazon's s3 called 'App Engine'.
I think that if this is successful it will provide a shift in some of the basic web development economics and practices, even more than Amazon's s3 has.
why?
- Small hosting providers (ones that offer a shell account for $12/month) will be marginalized. why pay for something when you get it for free ...
2006-06-06
tagthe.net in python
"tagthe.net":http://tagthe.net is a web service which tries to 'guess' tags for a given URL/piece of text. for "zyons":http://zyons.com I needed something to do this. so I wrote a "python client for tagthe.net":http://svn.zyons.python-hosting.com/trunk/zilbo/common/tag/tagthenet.py patches welcome..
2006-05-25
notice: my SVN area is moving
The Fantastic folks at "Python Hosting/WebFaction":http://webfaction.com have offered to host the SVN repo for "zyons, the django forum software":http://zyons.com we've developed. Part of the deal is that we also get a "Trac instance":http://zyons.python-hosting.com I've hit a little snag, but it should repo should be available in 24-48 hours. (and I'll take the chance to ...