My latest tech insights

One of the things I get asked about the most is OAuth 2.0 when developers start seeing 401s, 403s, and possibly other HTTP 4xx status … Read More

There’s an article on highscalability that’s talking about the move from Rails to node.js (for completeness: its sister discussion on Hacker News). It’s not the first time this … Read More

Introduction I accidentally stumbled onto jOOQ a few days ago while doing a lot of research on Hibernate. Funny how things work, isn’t it? For … Read More

App Engine provides an API for easily creating an OAuth provider. In this blog post, I’ll describe the following steps: Create and deploy an App … Read More

When saving entities to App Engine’s datastore at a high write rate, avoid monotonically increasing values such as timestamps. Generally speaking, you don’t have to … Read More

I’ve been working on an image sharing application using GWT and App Engine to familiarize myself with the newer aspects of GWT. The project and … Read More

The recently released Mapper framework is the first part of App Engine’s mapreduce offering. In this post, we’ll be discussing some of the types of operations we … Read More

Developers building applications on top of Java App Engine can use the familiar java.net interface for making off-network calls. For simple requests, this should be more than … Read More

The latest release of the datastore bulkloader greatly simplifies import and export of data from App Engine applications for developers. We’ll go through a step by step … Read More

I’ve been trying to use Scala more and more so I can gain some experience and exposure to it. A couple of weeks ago, I … Read More