John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
If your site uses common AJAX libraries like jQuery, jQuery UI, mootools, prototype, script.aculo.us, or dojo, the first thing that you’ll notice is that these libraries are quite large and impact page load time.
For a browser with a completely empty cache, the browser will load the requested library (and block all other requests during the [...]
This evening at the second Google Campfire, they released their Amazon EC2/S3 killer, Google AppEngine. Based in Python (2.5.2 required), It’s a developer tool that gives access to Google’s computing infrastructure and BigTable, the distributed database that Google runs on.
From their blog, it features:
Dynamic webserving, with full support of common web technologies
Persistent storage (powered by [...]