In 2008, over one thousand people experienced the world’s first virtual web conference. Together, we created a new type of conference that is environmentally-friendly, affordable, and interactive.

In 2009, we are going to take it one step further.


Google App Engine Backup and Restore (Gaebar) released

Update: Beta 2 Released! See the Gaebar Beta 2 announcement. Here's my Christmas present for the Google App Engine community: Google App Engine Backup and Restore (or Gaebar, for short). Gaebar is an easy-to-use, standalone Django application that you can plug in to your existing Google App Engine Django or app-engine-patch-based Django applications on Google App Engine [...]

Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it.

I've been working a lot with Google App Engine in the past few months. I still maintain, as I reiterated recently in my Boagworld interview with Paul, that it's a great idea and has great potential. And the Google App Engine team has been wonderful in working with me and helping me out. Unfortunately, there [...]

Running the PyAMF shell with Django 1.0 and app-engine-patch

I lost quite a bit of time trying to get the PyAMF shell up and running on the <head> web site this week. I started out by downloading the source for the shell app via a link on a post on the PyAMF blog. Unfortunately, the link was to the wrong version of the shell [...]