links for 2008-04-15

• Using Appengine with Django, why it is pretty much unusable — The 42 Topics Blog
  “The other flaws I can live with, but a dbshell not working and pdb breakpoints raising exceptions make this unusable for me. I guess I will stick with Django on a normal web host, and look at EC2, when we really need to scale.”
  (tags: django appengine google python programming webdev)
• firefox extensions compatibility
  a table of firefox extensions and their compatibility with FF5
  (tags: firefox extensions addons list compatibility firefox3 ff3)
• Dynamic Language Jobs Map for 2008-Feb-10
  note the Javascript predominance
  (tags: jobs python programming javascript perl maps ruby php dynamic languages)
• Raible Designs | Jetty and Resin closing in on Tomcat’s popularity
  interesting. have seen more Jetty, less Resin.
  (tags: jetty server tomcat resin mattraible)
• Solving the Enigma – History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe
  fascinating history of the breaking of Enigma
  (tags: history cryptography enigma security nsa encryption crypto bletchleypark via:simon)
• Amazon, get out of my head at Pensieri di un lunatico minore
  more on the latest AWS improvements from Chris
  (tags: chrispetrilli aws amazon cloud persistence ec2)
• Still Charming, but More Costly, After All These Years – New York Times
  commentary on the gentrification of Fenway Park
  (tags: fenwaypark cost economics redsox baseball)
• Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon’s EC2 – Waxy.org
  “AppDrop is a container for applications developed with the Google App Engine SDK, running entirely on Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure…anyone can use a modified SDK to deploy their App Engine apps directly to Amazon EC2 instead of Google, and they work with
  (tags: google amazon appengine ec2 python aws hack appdrop cloud portability migration)

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