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)

tecosystems

links for 2008-04-15

About

The Book

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Archives

The Book

Search

Recent Posts

Categories

Archives