Category Archives: Web development

Talkback: Purposes for a Software and Internet Social Purpose Corporation

Briefly the new Washington State Social Purpose Corporations are similar to Benefits Corporations or B Corporations that now exist in 7 states, except that their social purpose isn’t defined by statute but rather can be customized in the corporate charter.  … Continue reading

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Fourteen Cloud Storage Services and their Developer APIs

As part of the investigation and planning for Project Cloud Hydra, fourteen cloud storage services and their developer APIs were surveyed.  Those results follow.  If you are looking for more than 5GB of free storage, then SkyDrive, Symform, 4sync, CX, … Continue reading

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Compile C and C++ (and Python) code for the Flash platform

Just discovered Adobe Alchemy, which allows C and C++ code to be compiled for the Adobe Flash platform. For me anyway, this shines new light on the Flash platform, as this allows apps to be developed for Flash in widely … Continue reading

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Project Fangorn postmortem

Now that Project Fangorn is wrapped up and on ice, its time for the postmortem. What went wrong: Didn’t feel like I was productive enough. Went off on a tangent developing a prototype space based architectural abstraction over Google AppEngine’s … Continue reading

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Project Fangorn goes into the freezer

I’m skipping the back burner, and putting Project Fangorn on ice. I just pushed up the latest version to webgamesbyjosh.appspot.com. In that version the first of the general standing orders was implemented and I did a little of the work … Continue reading

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Project Fangorn Progress VI

I just deployed a new version of Project Fangorn.  This version uses the space-based architecture abstraction I created for GAE.  The only difference users will see is that the best case user command processing scenarios about about twice as fast.  … Continue reading

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Recording HTTP requests and response for replay and comparison

I’ve been trying to locate an existing tool that will record bunch of HTTP requests I make through my browser along with the responses, and then later run through though same requests again and verify the responses are identical to … Continue reading

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The AppEngine platform needs more tools

While Google’s App Engine is a platform just as things like Windows, *nix, or Sony’s PlayStations are, it is a new one that is sorely missing numerous tools that are readily available on other platforms. For example your OS has … Continue reading

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Space-Based Architecture for AppEngine

Several posts ago I mentioned that I was waiting to see which cloud provider would be up to hosting Project Fangorn first.  In my last two posts (one, two) I talked about some of the issues with testing web apps … Continue reading

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Grey box testing web applications deployed to Google App Engine

Last post I stated: Due GAE’s limitations on CPU time/cycles and an overall maximum limit of 10 seconds to fulfill a request a non-trivial set of unit tests will exceed the quotas if they are all run at the same … Continue reading

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