A Chat - Episode 22 show notes

Google App Engine and more.
  • Google App Engine experiences
    • Early problems with django app, used too much time, no clue as to why
    • Got it working by using later examples
    • Seems fairly quick ab says about 450ms (ping is 300ms)
  • YUI
    • Benefits overview
    • Lovely menus
    • Excellent examples
    • Can serve the CSS direct from Yahoo’s server
  • Home brew electronics
    • Morse ident keyer with Atmel ATTiny85
    • Programmable with gcc
    • 8 pin device
    • My code uses 1k or 8k available
    • 6 pins available for input or output
  • Amazon Web services action
    • They seem to have become very active since google launched
      • “Elastic” IPs
      • Data centre location
      • SLAs
    • New dashboard for showing service status
      • They say that users tell them there are problems some times…
    • Higher level, higher cost support options
      • If you bet your business on these services you need someone to call
  • Amazon MP3
    • Got an invite offering free tracks
    • No DRM is attractive
    • They have a downloader that automatically ads to iTunes
    • I tried but it wanted a US credit card address.
  • SafariAdBlock
    • blocks most ads in Safari
    • free fromĀ here
    • Sites that make me scroll down past ads have pushed me to this
    • Have tried other approaches such as squid with perl script to replace banners in the past
  • Trying Twitter
    • micro blogging
    • useful? hmm
    • twhirl client is an Adobe Air application
      • scary thing is that an application is installed by flash running in a browser
  • iPhone Australia gossip
    • Someone is working on getting iPhones approved on Australian carriers
    • This is said to take “months”
    • But there’s lots already on the network so presumably it could be sped up
    • Or not, if they are new models
  • Open Source Corporations
    • We talked Sun buying MySQL in Episode 13
    • How will this change MySQL?
    • What’s happened to other open source projects?
    • Peter’s blog post here

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