Archive for April, 2008

Google’s App Engine

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Recently, we've been researching cloud computing so we decided to take a look at Google's App Engine. We had hoped to write this earlier, but it was some time before we received access from Google to use App Engine :-) We're excited to see cloud computing move forward but, as ...

WordPress 2.5

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

We decided to take the plunge and upgrade to WordPress 2.5. Despite the many prompts to upgrade in the WordPress administration tool, we decided to wait a few weeks to before upgrading the application. The process was easy but definitely required more typing than we expected. With over 15 plugins installed, ...

Gazing Into The Clouds

Monday, April 7th, 2008

photo credit: Lodewijk van den Broek Cloud computing is garnering a lot of attention lately. There are wild rumors and announcements about Google, Microsoft, IBM and others entering the space. Additionally, startups like 10gen and Heroku also appear to be working on the same problem. Cloud computing will be a fast ...

Browser-Based Web Development

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

For the last few decades, there have been two primary methods for developing software. The first is the remote model where engineers write software on a networked server. Typically, an engineer will open a remote terminal session and use either Vim or Emacs to edit source files. The other, and ...