Travelling, and not Arriving

Google App Engine opensource porting

Interesting piece of news this morning

One of the biggest criticisms of Google’s App Engine have been cries of lock-in, that the applications developed for the platform won’t be portable to any other service. This morning, Chris Anderson, the Portland-based cofounder of the Grabb.it MP3 blog service, just released AppDrop — an elegant hack proving that’s [...]

Fun with Railtrackr

In these days I’m rediscovering Linkedin to get in touch with old colleagues and do some good-old networking.
So, going through some connections I discovered Railtrackr, a nice and free Flickr visualization tool written in Rails. The author is Riccardo Govoni an italian guy working with Google in Dublin.
Check it out!

Nice, indeed. That’s my personal page [...]

JavaOne: free for students

JavaOne 2008, the bigger and most spectacular Java conference worldwide (and probably one of the most expensive) is going to be free for students.
If you are interested, check out all the details at developers.sun.com/events/studentprogram/, and don’t miss the opportunity and enroll now. There’s a limited number of free passes.

What is a career in Engineering all about?

(Posting here, so you can use it as a future reference)

:-D

Just found an invitation to join Google App Engine in my mailbox

Google App Engine, or “On the democratization of IT infrastructure”

Less than 24 hours after the release of App Engine, we already have the first interesting story: HuddleChat, a sample “App Engine Powered” application written by two Google engineers, has been taken down.

The reason? The application was too similar to Campfire, the popular web chat created by 37Signals. While it’s not difficult to understand Google’s [...]

In case you were living on the Moon…

… and didn’t hear the noise, Google has just release Google App Engine.
I strongly agree with Dave Winer:
Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I’m not kidding. It’s even better than I hoped. Yes, it’s only Python, but IBM’s PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn’t matter…
Too bad [...]