Category Archives: General

Thanks to the power of TweetDeck’s search feature, a routine scan of all Twitter posts mentioning Google App Engine revealed this posting by Lou Franco. In it, he argues that App Engine needs an “App Store” along with a recurring … Continue reading →

By some happy coincidence, the eXo Portal guys launched their 2.5 release and announced support for OpenSocial Gadgets. This comes as a very pleasant surprise to me given my post yesterday. I can’t say I’m a super huge fan of … Continue reading →

Sahara enjoying “snow” at Plaza Las Americas  

Here’s my daughter dressed up as Boo from Monsters, Inc. Posted by email from Luis Sala on Posterous

As I noted in my work blog, Yahoo!, LinkedIn and Google have been making much headway in the realm of social application development. I spent a few hours last night playing around with the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) SDK, a … Continue reading →

The Google App Engine team has published a very terse roadmap for features they’re planning on adding over the next two quarters: Service for storing and serving large files Datastore import and export utility for large-scale databases Billing: developers can … Continue reading →

This is a re-post from my work blog: In lieu of a post on content management, open source, or anything else software-related. I figured I’d share some insight to a “hardware hack” I was playing around with not too long … Continue reading →

I’ve been doing most of my blogging at my work blog, but have realized that I need a forum that’s independent from my employer. This new blog will serve as my private little soapbox where passers-by can stop, listen, shake … Continue reading →