Giving up on Google Appengine

Quitter’s journal: After trying for half of week of getting some stuff going on appengine here is what I observed.
The runtime is completely different. They do try however to patch the normal python runtime in the sdk to have the same characteristics as the runtime on their servers but differences fall through the cracks. The [...]

On the future of cogen coroutine library

The major refactor of the socket stuff is finally in the trunk. The Socket is more in line with the standard socket module in python (there’s a makefile and a _fileobject for readline just like the standard library). And it looks like performance is still pretty good.
The only things I can think of right now [...]

Place your bets, Google vs Other browsers

Google’s shiny new browser is almost here: Google Chrome based on WebKit.
Featuring a sandbox model for tabs (tough I hope that sandbox will not be a complete process – as some speculate) and a “V8″ javascript engine – according to Joshua “code is instantly interpreted into machine code”. Damn, where did he knew that ? [...]