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Looking Back At My First Year at Google
I joined Google one year ago today. It’s been a really busy year and I can’t
believe it’s over so fast. I still feel like I just joined and there’s so much
that I’m still getting used to. Google has been at the same time the easiest
and the hardes...
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Why I Joined Google
As some of you may or may not know, I joined Google as a Developer Advocate on
the Google Cloud Platform Team in January. I just completed my first 3 months
and, like many others, it’s
been a whirlwind experience. The sheer amount you need to lear...
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Testing the new Photo Sphere Widget
Testing out the new photo sphere widget. The widget below is a photo
sphere of our trip to Great Falls Park.
You can find out more about how to embed the widget here:
https://developers.google.com/panorama/web
Another working example is here: ...
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Google IO: Input/Output
This year’s Google IO page
has a nifty little game that allows you to build a machine that guides a
ball from an input chute to an output chute. I noticed right away that
the tools you can use seem to have odd shapes as if designed for a
purpose. ...
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An introduction to the Tipfy Framework for Appengine
(This post is the English translation of the Dec. 24th edition of the
Python Web Framework Advent
Calendar 2010. Other posts can be found
at: http://atnd.org/events/10465 though they will be in Japanese)
I usually use the kay
framework for Appeng...
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Google Appengine 1.4.0 Released!!
Google Appengine 1.4.0 was just
released and has lots of interesting new features. Channel API, “Always
On” (reserved instances), Improvements to background processing, Warm up
requests, and Metadata queries just to name the big ones.
Channel API...
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New Google Appengine API Expert
Yesterday I became the new Google Appengine API
Expert (Python)
for the Japan region. Google Experts are the equivalent for Google API
Gurus as they are called in the ‘States. I will be helping out other
developers in Japan to learn about and ...
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Google Chrome Background Connections
Today I found that google chrome was making lots of background
connections to 1e100.net. I was a little worried at first but this seems
to be a google owned domain and these connections are used for their
anti-phishing/malware feature.
But even a...
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Minimum cost for warming-up various frameworks(and more)
My good friend Takashi Matsuo
wrote an interesting blog about start up times of various frameworks on
appengine. Because appengine kills your server process it often needs to
load your application into memory from scratch. This can take a lot of
t...
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Google Appengine SDK 1.2.3
The Google Appengine
SDK 1.2.3
was just released and contains some often asked for goodies such as
Django 1.0 support and support for a task queue
API.
I haven’t found much information about the Django 1.0 version in
Appengine but here are some l...
