A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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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
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Very interesting. Recently my “ProgrammingInWiki” page on WardsWiki seems to have come back to life. Along with a companion WikiIDE. A WikiDE is, of course, something I’ve been working on in the background for some time. But I’m far from having anything to show yet. So if these guys get there first, good luck to…
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