If you’ve been following my tweets you might have noticed that I’ve been running around Python and Django and Google App Engine for the last few weeks. Honestly, I fell in love with Python the second I wrote my first few lines of code, but it is not what this post is about. This post is about my short experience with App Engine. My first experience with App Engine was back in 2009...
Google Developer Day Moscow 2010
It’s been a good Friday last week, although I was a little bit late for the show. The event was held in Crocus City Hall in Moscow, which is quite wicked unless you drive there by car. Google Developer Day Moscow 2010, we all waited so long for it (one whole year actually) and it turned out to be… fascinating, as usual! Starting early morning we got some coffee (which I was late for)...
Meet me at Google Developer Day Moscow 2010
Google Developer Day Moscow 2010 is on it’s way (tomorrow, November 12), and yes, I received my invitation. It’s interesting to know that this year’s invitations included a barcode together with the registration number. It seems that Google was quite tight last year when 1000 invitations were sent out, and over 1500 people came to the event. This resulted in people standing on...
Amazon Web Services: Cloud Computing Free of Charge
Howly shmoly, just read the announcement of Amazon’s Free Usage Tier offering an EC2 micro instance free of charge for a whole year! Sounds cool, doesn’t it? Well let’s go back a few months and analyze the reason why I left Amazon in favor of Media Temple’s (ve) service: Amazon is way too expensive for a young geek like me, barely having the money to pay rent for my lousy...
Trends: WordPress vs Drupal vs Joomla
The battle’s been going on since 2004-2005, the three open platforms (WordPress, Drupal and Joomla) have been competing for ages. Which is the most popular? Of course you could search for reviews, votes, researches. I even came across a commercial research document about content management systems, their pros, cons and popularity. It still is difficult to convince clients (especially the...
E-Commerce: Google Checkout Store Gadget
Remember those great offers from web design and development agencies? E-commerce website from $999! Well I believe their time is gone, and once more, Google is taking the lead. Google Checkout has been introduced quite some time ago, but here’s what there’ up to these days – Google Checkout Store Gadget. And this looks really fabulous! You can create your own online store in...
W3 Total Cache with Amazon S3 and CloudFront
A few days ago Frederick Townes, author of the W3 Total Cache for WordPress has released an update to this wonderful plugin, and yes, it now fully supports Amazon S3 and CloudFront as the Content Delivery Network! This is a major one for me as I manually upload most of the static assets to my CloudFront account which may take quite a lot of time. The W3 Total Cache plugin does that for you in...
Video: Google Developer Day 2009 Moscow
I received an email this morning from the Alexey Shelestenko (from Google) with a link to some photos from GDD 09 Moscow and this fantastic 2 minute video from the event:
This definitely is one event I’ll never forget. Lars is a superstar ;) Oh and here’s last year’s.
15 Google Wave Invitations from Moscow
That’s right. I’m giving out Google Wave invitations too! No VIP invites though (like the ones at Bit Rebels) and there’s no need to tweet anything to get them. The rules are simple: I know quite a lot of you readers comment here from time to time and yes, all you have to do is leave a tiny little comment to this post (please include your name and your Twitter account) to get...
Google Developer Day 2009 Moscow – Conclusion
Well I guess it’s time to give you a detailed update on the event of the year – Google Developer Day 2009 Moscow (Google I/O, #gdd09ru on Twitter). It was held on November 10th, with over 1,500 visitors and a few guys from Google! Here’s a little video (Chrome Experiments and the Google I/O song with the lyrics) that’s been playing around on the big screens during the...