Aral Balkan

Google releases new Google App Engine SDK (Version 1.1.1)

Paul McDonald, who has been wonderful in working closely with me to make sure that the Singularity web site got up and running on Google App Engine last week, announced on the Google App Engine Blog on Thursday that they had released a new version of

Posted: Jul. 26, 2008 01:47 PM

I ♥ Geeky Tees

I always get ideas for geeky t-shirts and never do anything about it. So today, while taking a break from working on the Singularity web site, I set up a store on Spreadshirt under the naklab brand that I'm thinking of using for quite a few things. A

Posted: Jul. 26, 2008 12:57 PM

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, we’re Google (or why you shouldn’t 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

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