Category Archives: Cloud Development

Experiment: Browser Based Geolocation – HTML5 Points the Future of the Web

The adoption of HTML5 and its surrounding cast of powerful new features is going to be a huge boon to web users and points towards a very positive direction for the future of the web. From the smoother interfaces of canvas, local storage enabling offline modes for online email programs and the like seamlessly, [...]

A Hands on Post From and About Google’s Chrome OS

In order to get my feet wet with Google’s Chrome OS (in it’s current developer build state, Chromium OS properly) and test a real world workflow with this “web only” device I figured I’d put together a blog post with some photos courtesy my new DSLR never leaving the Chrome “browser” now grown up [...]

Embedding my first Google Wave into Wordpress!

This is a test!
Below I embedded my first Wave “Hello World… I mean Wave!”… The first of many likely… let’s see what it looks like out in public… I know many of you probably can’t see it… This is a test!
UPDATE: I believe and claimed this as the first Google Wave embed in a blog [...]

Best Buy speaks Google App Engine at Google I/O 2009

I was very excited to not just attend but be a part of Google I/O 2009, Google’s annual developer conference. A Best Buy contingent of Steve Bendt, Gary Koelling and myself as well as uber developers Curtis Thompson and Thomas Bombach made the trip and were part of the Developer Sandbox.
I/O’s Key Points
The keynotes (day [...]

Problem Solving: Get Google App Engine working on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

By default the Google App Engine SDK doesn’t run on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackelope)… You can fix it!

After a little searching I noticed neither posts about this issue nor a quick fix were top of the Google rankings… hoping to resolve that with this post and get all of us Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) users up [...]