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 [...]

I just started my development diary for the Singularity web conference on O'Reilly InsideRIA. Check out my inaugural post: Building Conference 2.0.

Finally, some concrete news on the Flash Player for iPhone front: according to the Wall Street Journal, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced in a conference call to investors that Adobe has begun work on a Flash Player that is suitable for the Apple iPhone. It looks like Adobe is building the "product in the middle" [...]