Archive for June, 2008

MarsPhoenix Lander on Twitter

Posted June 10, 2008 * Comments(0)

Pretty cool.

http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix

Trailer Hitches and Pancakes

Posted June 9, 2008 * Comments(0)

I installed a trailer hitch on my car this weekend. I expected one thing to happen but the project didn’t quite work out that way. I made a classic Engineer’s mistake; the project, for me was about “The Hard Stuff”, bolting big metal things together. It turned out not to be about that;the bulk of the work was the “Boring Stuff”. The whole experience reminded me of mistakes I have made (and really, really try not to make anymore but sometimes still do…) with software development projects.
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Google App Engine

Posted June 6, 2008 * Comments(1)

So I finally got around to taking a look at Google App Engine and working through the tutorial. Once I had the basics down, I attempted to move a little crypto-key management app that I had been developing on Rails in EC2 over to App Engine. In the process I had some observations about how developing with App Engine compared to my experience using the AWS suite of tools.

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