Google are introducing paid-for extensions to Google App Engine quotas, which is great as it lets you build more complex applications if you're willing to pay the rates. At the same time they're reducing the baseline free quotas.
There's now a slightly belated report of Oxford Geek Night #10, on the Google Open Source Blog. Gosh, it sounds like it was jolly good. It's almost making me look forward to organizing the next one...!
A summary of OGN9, originally on the Google Open Source Blog:
On Wednesday 22 October, over a hundred geeks attended the ninth Oxford Geek Night, upstairs at the Jericho Tavern.
The past couple of evenings I've been away from a computer and so not free to consolidate my copious notes all the interesting stuff that happened at Google Developer Day on Tuesday. I should start by saying that all the organizers, especially Liz Ericson, should be proud for planning and running such a fun event, and so smoothly.
Currently live blogging from the Google Developer Day, London 2008. Fittingly the live blog is a Google Doc.
Like a moron, I left my mobile phone at home, and then ended up separated from everyone I know; so have a look at what I'm liveblogging and find me, if you care.
Edit 2008-09-18: notes now below.
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Lightning talks 16.25-17.35, SF2
Google App Engine
I'm typing this from Google Chrome. Since it was released almost two weeks ago I've wanted to blog about it, but have been mostly hampered by no easy access to Vista or XP.
Want to migrate your RSS bookmarks from Firefox (or its RSS-reading addon, Sage) to Google Reader? I did, just now.
Christopher Hinze has written a great Firefox addon that exports bookmarks to OPML 1.0. Unfortunately, OPML is a bit of an anything-goes specification. So although Hinze's plugin produces valid OPML, it isn't the same sort of valid OPML that Google Reader expects.
The writeup for OGN7 is live on the Google OS blog. If you were there, then you probably won't learn anything new; if you weren't, then what was your excuse?
My rather cheesy write-up of OGN6 is now available on the Google Open Source blog. I’d like to say it was cut to ribbons and all the worst bits are editorial additions, but I think they put it up verbatim.
Cheers, all: see you at OGN7, June 25th.
The fifth Oxford Geek Night is shaping up to be a really great night. Following on from our keynote confirmations, we’ve now got a full house of microslotters.