Archive for the ‘google’ Category

It all started with ‘Downtime is Unacceptable’, Announcing Google Grope!

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

A few weeks ago I wrote a simple article about why I think that 'Downtime is Unacceptable' when you run an IT service. I noticed that after around 15 seconds that my article was number one on Google.com for the search phrase! Being really surprised I posted a really quick ...

Initial thoughts on Google Wave

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Google have announced the imminent release of a new communication and collaborate tool called Google Wave (http://wave.google.com). This is a technology that was developed by Lars & Hans Rasmussen and a team of Google developers in Sidney Australia. I watched the 80 minute demo of the tool that Lars Rasmussen gave at ...

App Engine, a good service but could do better to aid interoperability

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

  In its current guise, I am not a big fan of Google App Engine…even the new leader of the Western World couldn’t convince me of the virtues. In my September post I wrote about why I don’t like the existing service. I was a little critical of the service but I ...

Barack Obama uses AppEngine !

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

I just noticed that US President Elect Barack Obama uses AppEngine! Barack has a website that canvases opinions on his various policies. This website uses Moderator, a Q&A manager running on App Engine written by Google. 

Google Developer Day, London 2008

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Google Developer Day, Google App Engine Presentation On tuesday I travelled to London to the Google Developer Day. As expected, the event was very well organised. Mano Marks gave an excellent set of presentation on Google App Engine. You can view them on YouTube. I went along to see what I can learn ...