Google today released Google App Engine SDK 1.1.6 (announcement, download) which, among other things, brings with it datastore keys that you can sort and filter on. What this means is that you can now do batch operations on data. So it's time for me to go back to my Google App Engine backup solution, which broke [...]

This is a quick screencast to show you the data export solution I've created for Google App Engine that lets you backup your application's datastore and restore it either locally on your development machine or on the same Google App Engine application on the deployment environment or on a different Google App Engine [...]

Introducing Open Country Codes: easy to use ISO 3166 country codes for your apps. Why are some things just much harder than they need to be? Finding a current, easy-to-use data source for populating a country selection box, for example. Most of the clean country data out on the web is second-hand, having at one point [...]

Writing about secure passwords in Buzzword got me thinking about the state of security and user trust in Flash (and Flex)-based Rich Internet Applications in general. After giving it some thought, I concluded that we have a little more work to do if users are to be expected to have the same sort of trust [...]