Google Appengine currently does not allow configuration of naked domains. Meaning, if you’re building something on Appengine you’ll have to settle for a URL like http://www.mysite.com or http://whatever.mysite.com and you will not be able to use http://mysite.com. Its not so bad in most cases, but not having http://mysite.com isn’t going to stop people from trying [...]
Archive for August, 2009
11 Aug
Socialbrowse in the StarTribune
Yesterday I was on the cover of the Business section of the StarTribune. Its a nice article that talks a bit about Socialbrowse and my path to what I’m doing right now. It also talks about Luke Francl and his awesome startup FanChatter which is also from Minnesota and also in YCombinator. Here is a [...]
10 Aug
Log Observer using Python’s subprocess
Today I needed to write a wrapper around a program that would examine the stdio and respond immediately to certain results. The task was handled nicely with a python script using subprocess. There isn’t a lot of documentation examples on it so to figure it out I wrote this small test app and I thought [...]
3 Aug
Starting Out With Comet (Orbited) Part 3 – The Client
Comet implementations require both server and client side components. In Part 2 of this series we installed and configured the server side component and then used the example STOMP Test client to test it out and get a feel for what was going on. In this part of the series we’ll be covering the client [...]