Archive for April, 2008

Insoshi, Meet Heroku

When I read about insoshi on Mashable and TechCrunch this morning, it got my mind buzzing… and immediately my thoughts turned to another Y Combinator startup–Heroku. I’ve been using Heroku for quite awhile now, and both my fondness for Ruby on Rails and my disdain (so far) for Google’s Big Table make it my […]

The Lottery Button… or $100 and the Google App Engine

I’ve had a Google App Engine account for around a week or so now, but my biggest problem with it is that I don’t have any time to spend developing an app for it. I’ve got plenty of website ideas kicking around in my head (some that’ve been kicking around entirely too long), but […]

Games and Taxes (Tax Year Resolutions?)

After scrimping a bit for the last month or so (and getting a nice fat refund check from Uncle Sam via direct deposit), I sent off $4000 to my Roth IRA as my 2007 contribution this morning. As far as I can tell, I’m completely done with my 2007 taxes now. Besides having […]

Google App Engine

Interesting news tonight: it seems as though Google is opening up their massive resource pool to the public at large (well, at least 10,000 of them). I signed up for it and got my invite an hour or so later, and I have to say it looks pretty promising. I’ve been tinkering with […]