Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Setting up Google App Engine SDK


I've started playing around with the Google App Engine SDK. So far I've found this fellow's posts on setting up Python, Eclipse, PyDev, and the Google App Engine very helpful. He also has a great post on ER-modeling and relational models in Google App Engine. Check them out. .Share this ...

First impressions on Google App Engine


From the Google site: Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your ...

People work with WS-* web services in PHP? Why?


I'd love to give ws02 a fair shake because they have an open source business model. They have a web services framework for PHP which seems interesting from an academic standpoint. But I think WS-* web services are WAY too complicated when compared to REST. Just look at this ...

Gmail 2.0 crashing Firefox with extreme prejudice


It's mostly when clicking different folders like "spam." I wasn't sure what was going as this just started happening the past 3 days when I noticed that sure enough, I've been moved over to Gmail 2.0. I tried disabling and then finally uninstalling all my add-ons (plugins) ...

Google embeddable map widgets


Posted on the google maps blog today is a post about the newly released embeddable maps. Pretty cool. Although the map is in an iframe and not javascript and div like using the Maps API. So for manipulating the map on the page, you’ll still need to ...

Google Gears for offline browsing


I'm a couple of days behind in the news here (darn vacation days!)... but Google Gears is out and promises to shake up website development as it uses browser extensions to offload data down to the client instead of making continued requests to the server.  Of course the catch is ...

Local time shortcut from google (”time in india”)


Another neat trick I found in google this morning. If you need to know the time elsewhere in the world, say the country of India for instance... you can simply google: "time in india" and it will return: India — Current local time: 6:24 PM on Tuesday, ...

All your google are belong to us


I'm a google-whore. I freely admit this. I use a ton of their tools. Gmail. Calendar. The personalized search home page complete with widgets (or whatever google calls them, probably googets). Yahoo has the same tools and Ask.com is catching up with some neat stuff but ...

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