June 2009
4 posts
Google App Engine Getting Awesomer
Google App Engine is becoming super exciting! The team recently released “Task Queues”, a utility that allows you to run a slow process independent of web requests, which must always be fast. This is the same basic functionality as Amazon’s Simple Queue Service, but Google’s implementation carries none of the overhead of setting up or scaling large queues of tasks, as SQS...
Time to Take a Deep Breath
New Hampshire has just become the sixth state to allow marriage equality. The lion’s share of debate in N.H., as I understand it, was over whether religious institutions (churches, ministers, etc.) would be obligated under the law to perform and recognize same-sex marriages.
I can only imagine how imposing it must be for a religious institution that honestly doesn’t approve of...
Marketing 2.0 in the EU
From an ab-sol-ute-ly-hi-lar-io-us WSJ article on marketing and understanding the upcoming European Parliament elections:
“We wanted somebody youth could relate to,” says Ans Persoons, who directed the initiative. “So we picked an American rapper, but we wanted him to be European, so we hung a big gold euro sign around his neck.”