Posted
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:28:01 GMT
to Posted in Programming, Ideas
Tags app engine, deployment, development, google, integration
Today Google announced Google App Engine, a free (within certain limits) deployment environment in which people can develop, deploy and host web apps. Currently, the offering is for python only, and you are kind of tied to Google’s data store, but in return you don’t have to worry about server management, infrastructure, or paying money. Additionally, they have a pre-packaged SDK to give developers an identical development sandbox, as well as a method to deploy local code to the production environment.
However, I think they missed a way to make it even MORE awesome. Imagine, if you will, that they had integrated this package with Google Code. Suddenly, developers have an entire managed development and deploy framework. Develop on your workstation with an environment that is identical to the production environment, check in code so that it is managed, have a web interface that manages deployment from the repository so that you could deploy specific revisions/branches to either a staging area for testing or the production environment, with easy rollbacks if a problem is noticed…... since one of App Engine’s goals appears to be to lower the total cost of entry into the app development world, this just seems like it would make sense and work so well.
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Posted
Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:14:58 GMT
to Posted in Ideas
Tags BDD, rSpec, ruby
Last week, Dave Astels came into Halifax and gave a talk on Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and rSpec (a BDD framework for Ruby). I thought it was quite the interesting talk, and that a lot of things seemed to make sense.
I took some rough notes, and thought I would write a bit about what I managed to take away from the talk.
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Posted
Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:14:33 GMT
to Posted in Geek, School, Ideas
As many of you might know, a while back Mike Smit started taking a hard look at TurnItIn.com a while back. For those of you who follow his site, he has more recently begun an information campaign, pointing out failings, problems, and concerns with the service. Even outside of his site, the issue has been getting a lot of attention, including being covered in the current issue of the Dalhousie Gazette.
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Posted
Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:51:31 GMT
to Posted in Life, Ideas
Tags humor
Today, someone mentioned that all disputes in the Computer Science Building should be settled through battle on the beams suspended over the atrium. This individual also went so far as to state that this was a traditional mode of challenge on a certain mailing list in the past (which remains to be seen). Obviously, I missed out on quite a bit in the past here, but I feel it might be worthwhile to revive this tradition.
However, a few changes:
Install a cross beam (or two) in between the two central beams already there. Then combatants can start of on their own beam without arguments of who steps out first. Additionally, this would allow individuals to jump from beam to beam, thus hightening the overall entertainment value.
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Posted
Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:58:03 GMT
to Posted in Ideas
Tags buskers
Halifax International Buskerfest
Day 2 of what started here
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Posted
Sun, 03 Jul 2005 20:37:01 GMT
to Posted in Geek, Ideas
Tags humor
Due to past conversations and certain web comics I’ve been doing some thinking.
You see, technically, music devices are behind the times.
Me, I can plug a musical device directly into my implant. No headphone static, no background noise, just crisp, clear, musicy goodness.
The devices are small enough to fit behind the ear. Sure you might not get 8 gigs of space for music, but you should be able to get 512 MB at the very least.
Tranfers could be accomplished using bluetooth. Controls could be built into a watch, also using bluetooth.
All we need is a workaround of the surgery costs and we’re good to go!
Think of the marketing slogans!
“Listen to the voices in your head that much clearer!”
Hmmm…....... maybe not.
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Posted
Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:10:34 GMT
to Posted in Life, Geek, Ideas
Tags humor
- Take over the new ‘Management’ Building next door once it is complete. It’s taller than ours and the management faculty is obviously not as important as us.
- Turn the current CS Building into an Urban Paintball field to generate revenue. I mean, think about how awesome it would be to do Couterstrike like missions with paintball guns in the CS Building.
- What about the management students? Well, they’ve gotten used to the management building already. What’s a few more years taking classes there?
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Posted
Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:21:24 GMT
to Posted in Geek, Ideas
Tags humor, music
One of the reason some of my friends are so awesome is that one of us will have a crazy idea, and run with it. Maybe not in reality, but in a big long discussion on what we would end up doing.
Today, the following was thought up:
Starting up a nerd-punk band with a name like “Iain and the Stooges” (help desk individuals would understand). Which has evolved into me being singer/songwriter, my friend Jon (not you Despry) as guitarist, and other individuals of tech support filling additional spaces. We figure, there is so much BAD punk out there, that we couldn’t really do any worse.
I’m getting ideas again… and we all know what that means…
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