This, That, and the Code

Home >> April, 2008

A lesson in Interaction Design from my son Wyatt

Posted on: Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 in: Usability, User Interfaces

Wyatt (my 2 1/2 year old son) was putting on his boots and I was surprised to see that he’d lined them up the right way (with the arches toward each other).
My first, pessimistic, thought was that he had a 50% chance of getting it right but I praised him all the same.
He then […]

Google App Engine

Posted on: Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 in: Agile Development, Programming

Facebook applications is to OpenSocial  as Amazon’s EC2 is to …… Google App Engine. Google ftw!
Some things I like about it:

 It’s free to start… the startup bar just got lower again
Scales up well (from the reading I’ve done)… you just pay more.
The data is backed up better than a home grown solution because of the […]