Google has just announced a new service called Google App Engine. “Google App Engine enables [developers] to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.” Basically GAE is a scalable web application back-end with a nice API. So what does this mean for web startups?1 Because web startups commonly have an [...]
I spent three days in San Francisco basically living with the founders, Daniel and Jason, of Disqus, a small Y Combinator startup that is building a distributed comment system for online publications (I use it on this blog). The trip was, by far, one of the best experiences of my life. I got a unique [...]
Most online writers use web applications like WordPress and Tumblr to facilitate blogging, and as a result, writers are at the whim of the theme designer when it comes semantic correctness. In layman’s terms, semantic correctness is analogous with “how well the theme is coded.” Choosing a Theme When choosing a theme for my publications, [...]
Epiphany, the very excellent Linux web browser for Gnome, will now use WebKit, instead of Gecko, as the layout engine. I’ve used Epiphany extensively in the past when Firefox 2 was terrible on Linux and Epiphany has had the added benefit of native GTK+ widgets and was definitely faster than Firefox 2. WebKit, in parallel, [...]
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Posted 01 April 2008
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Posted 29 March 2008
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