Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Google’s App Engine platform
This evening, Google unveiled something called the App Engine:
- hosting environment exclusively for web applications
- initially free up to a certain site load (500 MB storage, 10 Gb bandwidth a day, ~5 million pageviews/month — I wish that was a problem I had!)
- supports Python (initially) but will eventually support more languages
- they seem to have their own api and their own web application framework, I wonder if they’ll support more like Django (Python) or, of course, Ruby on Rails
How this compares to Amazon:
- This is not a general purpose web hosting or grid service like EC2 — this is tailored specifically to web applications
- Free up to a certain amount of usage (probably only something Google/MS could afford to offer)
WPF Weekend, Part 1: Introducing CID
Over lunch with my friends at OpenSource Connections last Friday, we had a discussion of how they could attract more people to their booth at the FOSE convention next week in Washington, DC. A recurring suggestion was to have something to dazzle people from a distance.One of the ideas we came up with is to have an eye-catching display, but that only had limited value.
So we decided to show attendees information that is immediately useful to them, such as the conference event schedule.SO this weekend, Michael Herndon from OSC, and myself, started to build what would become CID.
We decided from the beginning to open source the project and host it on Google Code, so that others can benefit and learn from our experience, and also so that it could be extended easily in the future. This series of posts outlines some of the things we learned in the process.