Aral Balkan

The cloud must be decentralized

Amazon S3 has been down for several hours now and as Jonathan Boutelle (who, by the way is speaking at the Singularity Web Conference) writes, when S3 goes down, the Internet goes down. Along with images on Twitter, SlideShare, SmugMug, and a host of

Posted: Jul. 20, 2008 05:16 PM

No nudity please, were Google (or why you shouldnt mix naked domains and www on Google App Engine)

I have to confess, I love naked domains. You might say, I have somewhat of a fetish. Naked domains, of course, are domain names without the www prefix. So, instead of www.singularity08.com, for example, having singularity08.com. One of my pet peeve

Posted: Jul. 19, 2008 12:26 PM

Important note for pre-announcement Singularity badge holders

This is a note for my earliest supporters; those of you who put up Singularity badges on your blogs and sites before Singularity was even revealed as a web conference. If you're part of this group, you will have had an email from me when Singularity

Posted: Jul. 18, 2008 05:07 PM

Smells like Singularity

I can't believe I missed this when it first came out (it was probably because I'd just started on the my crazy two-month trip to simultaneously learn Google App Engine, brush up my Python, and build the new Singularity web site): Brooks Andrus from

Posted: Jul. 18, 2008 10:08 AM

Singularity Web Conference ticket sales and micro-sponsorships kick off!

Tickets and micro-sponsorships for the Singularity Web Conference have started! Reserve your ticket today! Details Tickets cost just $99 (inc. VAT) during the early bird discount. Micro-sponsorships cost $199 (inc. VAT) and include one ticket to atte

Posted: Jul. 17, 2008 04:24 AM

New Singularity web site ready, ticket sales at 9am GMT on July 17th

Wow, building the new Singularity web site on Google App Engine has been a lovely adventure! (One that I look forward to sharing with you after tomorrow's launch.) And now the site is ready to start accepting ticket sales. I just committed and tagge

Posted: Jul. 16, 2008 06:03 PM

Singularity: new site update

You know, if there's one truism about web development, it's really easy. Except when it's not. I was gearing up to launch the new Singularity web site this morning when I started noticing random errors on the deployment environment last night. The

Posted: Jul. 16, 2008 07:18 AM

HTML links to Markdown

Quick regular expression snippet to convert HTML links to Markdown links: Find: <a href=\\"(.*?)\\">(.*?)</a> Replace: [$2]($1) (Try it in TextMate, for example, which has an awesome find/replace dialog that accepts regular expressio

Posted: Jul. 15, 2008 04:36 AM

iPhoned: a story of shiny new gadgets and lousy customer service

Yes, I actually lined up yesterday at 7.30am in front of the O2 store on Western Road. Yes, after enduring my current hacked iPhone for close to a year at GPRS speeds, I was craving the promised 3G broadband speeds. The built-in GPS wouldn't hurt ei

Posted: Jul. 12, 2008 06:23 PM

New runserver options for manage.py in Google App Engine Helper for Django

Update: Just as I was writing/releasing my patch, Matt Brown apparently committed r38 (diff) to the Google App Engine Helper for Django source tree which resolves the same issue -- and much more simply and elegantly than my solution, by using Django'

Posted: Jul. 12, 2008 04:05 PM

YOUR FEEDBACK

	E-Commerce 2.0 By Simeon Simeonov NN wrote: No it is not a concern. If they are thinking people are not waiting for site to load and run away. It is myth because HTML page also takes time to load apart from home page loads little faster compare to web 2.0 home page. HTML base site won't make your site popular ...
	Flex Is Strong Because of Java By Yakov Fain NN wrote: DRH: you are jumping up and down on silverlight without any light. let see Microsoft work so hard to kill Java and all know the story. Today we have so many apps running on Java (backend more and front ends sucks where flex shines). Now we have great tools for complete...
	Adobe Flex: Program in Style or an Elevator Pitch By Yakov Fain Daniel Szmulewicz wrote: Shalom, OK, so this post is two years old, but I just found it today and appreciated it a lot. Very instructive, indeed. Since you asked for more versions to achieve the desired resizeable canvas, may I offer mine. It is in the line of the Flex version...
	ClearBI Web Reporter For Flex and Java Applications Goes to Public Beta By Yakov Fain person wrote: I hope it's still beta today, because the instructions don't work.
	Yahoo Director Quits; Company Postpones Annual Meeting By Maureen O'Gara Yahoo News Desk wrote: The Yahoo board is one short.