Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Site Moving To App Engine

I've been working hard to move my blog site to app engine platform. It will take me a couple more days to complete it so I won't be blogging about anything for a while

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Will It Be PHP or Java - The Next App Engine Language

The google app engine roadmap has been publicly released. One of the things that caught my attention was the support for new runtime language. Rumors have been running around that GAE platform will be supporting both java and php but google never confirmed anything.

What if GAE supports PHP?

Both Java and PHP community will be happy but considering that PHP applications can be hosted for as low as 4 USD a month, I dont think people will easily jump from using hosting service to GAE platform.

What if GAE supports Java?

The main reason why people turn away from java is because of the high cost of its hosting. Allowing small java developers/players to host their applications for free will be fantastic.

I created a survey so you can all vote for what you think (and what you want) GAE to support next.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kSlGNa0ZFh2iKmq5tY7HcA_3d_3d

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Android phone to be released next week

After a very long wait, it's finally here! The first android phone will be released on September 23, 2008. Here are some short info you may want to read about the device/platform:

Price is tagged $199 USD (I don't know how much this thing will cost here in the Philippines).

Android OS platform will be an open one. This means you don't need to sign any non-disclosure agreement or whatsover just like what you did on iPhone.

Java will be used to develop the application. Let's face it, java is so much easier compared to objective-c (probably for me).

Monday, August 04, 2008

Pinging Google (Re-indexing your links at google)

While playing around with django, I came across a library component called "Sitemap Framework". Its documentation teaches something about "forcing Google to re-index sitemap." I started googling around and found the official documentation from Google on  how to submit sitemap to google. I think this technique is pretty useful so that the links of your website will always be updated.

Going back to django... This framework has a built in module/function called "ping_google" which submits the website's sitemap.xml to Google's search engine. I tried using such and so now I'm still waiting for the web stat logs to verify if google re-indexed my website.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Cuil: Google's new competitor?

A new search engine was released by former google search engine developers. The search engine they call "cuil" (pronounced as cool) can be found here. 

I tested the search engine and it's pretty fast. The result looks similar to google except for the added images and related content section. The interface looks a lot better than of google while at the same time maintaining a "fast loading" and "simple" page.

I'll be closely watching this cool new search engine. I'll see if this thing will compete against google or it will simply go away.