Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Google on Dec 11th, 2008
Today Red Hat announced a couple of things :
1. that we’ve signed Google’s corporate contributor agreement
2. that we’re adopting GWT (Google Web Toolkit) as a core part of JBoss Middleware
The world doesn’t need another Java framework for developing rich AJAX apps. so we’ve decided to go with what we think is a real leader – [...]
Posted in Google on Oct 1st, 2008
Google have made their 2001 search index available and have linked it to the Wayback Machine. I couldn’t resist and did a quick vanity search to see if I existed on the webertubes back in 2001. Just three hits – a couple from 1997 on a CORBA mailing list (shudder) and another advertising a class [...]
Yesterday Google announced Google App Engine – essentially a competitor to AWS (Amazon Web Services) providing storage, execution and secure, reliable “web I/O”. Right now – you have to write your apps. in Python;but they also provide Django (web app framework for Python) – which is pretty neat from the little I’ve seen of it. [...]
Posted in Google on Feb 28th, 2008
Maybe I’m the last to notice but Google StreetView now covers Raleigh / Cary – including the abode of yours truly and including our Halloween decorations and an immortalized Bradford Pear tree that we had felled (shame on us).
Boy am I glad I didn’t get caught fetching the WSJ in my pajamas. Oh, I just [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Google on Feb 28th, 2008
Over a year after acquiring JotSpot, Google have just announced the launch of Google Sites – currently available as a Google Apps service and therefore aimed at organizations rather than individuals.
I had a very quick look this morning and it’s pretty nice (and pretty free) – it really pulls together the other services [...]