I've been doing some reading about Google's announcement of their "App Engine" platform for hosting scalable applications. Some of the reactions so far are pretty interesting. Partially of note, I see a number of places saying it will be the "Amazon killer", or "hosting killer", and even that it is ...

Google App Engine and its impact »

I know the iPhone SDK is basically old news now, but having recently got my iPhone, I have a few thoughts of my own. First, I have downloaded it, however I haven't used it other than messing with the simulator for web development. Initially, I was disappointed with the lack of the interface builder,...

Quick thoughts on the iPhone SDK »

Lately, have had some late night hacking to experiment with some Ruby/Rails apps. For a long time, I'd been neglecting Rails and had intentions of learning it, though always put it off. Though I'd been reading some books on it, but I tend to learn new languages by doing rather than reading. Recently...

Experimenting in Rails »

I recently decided to look into using a hosted Subversion service. I used to always use Subversion locally using a method I've mentioned before , however recently, I was going to be doing some coding while out of town and wanted to be able to make regular check ins, but couldn't since all my repositories...

Search for hosted Subversion »

Bookmarking has been extended in several respects with sites such as del.icio.us , which introduces a social aspect into sharing and discovering bookmarks from other users, and then you have your "personal bookmarks", the ones you find under the "Bookmarks" menu item of your favorite browser. Traditionally...

Bookmarks as a web archive »

With Apple's announcement today of its iTunes Movie Rentals, I was rather quickly disappointed that it will suffer from the same thing that Xbox Live's movie rentals have: 24 hour viewing time. With Xbox Live, when you download the movie, you can watch it anytime within 14 days. However, once you click...

The problem with online movie rentals »

A pandemic has been spreading lately around Telligent: buyamacitis. First it started with Jason , then it infected Rob , spread to Scott , and then quickly spread out to Jose , David , Jayme , and myself. Ben was already a Mac owner, as well as several other converts in the services department and Telligent...

An apple a day »