June 2008
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My thoughts on Google App Engine
I recently tried Google App Engine.
Pros and cons
Pros
The canned environment is really nice. It’s great to focus on development instead of setting up infrastructure.
Love Python. Like the Django-based templating engine.
Bandwidth allocation is reasonable for small- or medium-sized apps.
The data store is great!
Because it’s non-relational there’s no ORM layer to get in the way. Once you...
How to tell if a Mac OS X application is “Cocoa”...
There are two ways that software developers can create Macintosh applications — known as Carbon and Cocoa. As has been said many times before, it doesn’t really matter to users if an application is Carbon or Cocoa, although developers do tend to prefer one or the other when writing applications.
A quick way to identify Carbon and Cocoa applications is to drag them to the bottom of the screen.
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