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2008-04-09

CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 33 days AGO

Helma 1.6.2 was released yesterday; Chris Zumbrunn has a great round-up of changes & fixes. The big ones: JavaScript 1.7 enabled out of the box, JSAdapter support.

It also looks as if there will be a Helma meeting sometime in spring. Fantastic!

2008-04-09-springHelma

Two more bits about Google App Engine:

Hannes Wallnöfer dives in and mostly likes what he sees: "Das Datastore API ist ein Highlight und eine feine Inspirationsquelle für zukünftige Helmas to come."

Ryan Barrett's launch announcement; he worked on the App Engine datastore. (Hilarious, if only for me: Can you tell where the speech bubble icon on Ryan's site came from, and by which way?)

AE for structured data (the datastore does indeed look much, much cooler than Amazon SimpleDB; and there's no reason not to RESTify it, right?) & frontends (if you're comfortable turning over that much behavioural data to Google), Amazon S3 for blobs (assets & archival), Amazon EC2 for raw cycles & in-memory databases (along with a small army of cheap leased servers). InfiniBase, InfiniSpace, InfiniCycles: Every puzzle has an answer.

2008-04-09-engineous