Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Ruby and Rails Library

By TechKnow | April 13, 2008

I own my personal and private Ruby and Rails library. If I haven’t misplaced any of my books, I currently have ten of the top Ruby and Rails books. From each book I have learned something new about Ruby and Rails. If you are a new programmer learning Ruby or Rails, you don’t need all [...]

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Google App Engine Analysis

By TechKnow | April 8, 2008

Technology pundits and developers alike are busy writing and speculating about Google’s latest SDK, Google App Engine, before they actually write code. People are speculating that this will position Python as the dominant dynamic scripting language for the next hype cycle. Other have mentioned that this is Google’s entry into cloud computing, web services, and [...]

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Google App Engine

By TechKnow | April 8, 2008

Google has just made available a preview release of Google App Engine. Google App Engine is an application programing environment built with the same scalable technology and infrastructure that runs some of Google’s applications. App Engine is available as a Software Development Kit (SDK). Once an application is developed for App Engine, it can them [...]

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YouTube and Picasa Web API Hackathon

By TechKnow | April 3, 2008

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the YouTube / Picasa Web API Hackathon at Googleplex. Google is always a great host and they provided food, t-shirts, and even raffled a pass to Google I/O. The hackathon started out with presentations by folks on the Google Data (GData) team. All of Google application make [...]

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