Monthly Archives: April 2008

First take on Google’s App Engine for Python

I’ve been playing around with GAE for a few days and come to a few early conclusions. It’s very cool, very smart. The quality of the docs and examples is pretty good. It’s all about locking you in to Google’s user and data APIs. In exchange, you get their (presumably) massively scalable platform. Your users [...]

Having Less Stuff

For the past few years, I’ve had a slow-burning desire to own less. Certainly in the physical sense, I keep looking around me at the contents of bookshelves, boxes of papers, odds and ends and jars of spices I haven’t opened in a year. I am just not going to use that star anise. How [...]