There have been some discussions about this already, notably a QCon presentation, but a redundant tutorial or two never hurt a soul. This is for the Python version of App Engine, but it shouldn’t be much different for Java. Why? App Engine datastore writes are really expensive, and prohibitively so for something like custom statistics. [...]

Or at least it would have if I had a PR firm and a few thousand dollars to get some coverage. But the code has gotten to the point where there’s a real, useful product (in my opinion, anyway . If you’re not in the know, here’s the blurb from the home page. SearchEkko is [...]

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War … but the end of history as such … That is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last [...]

Ideas don’t have much street cred in the tech world. Execution, not inspiration, is what creates great companies. And it’s true; execution beats the idea 99 times out of 100. Yet even seasonded Entrepreneurs in Residence are usually looking for a “good opportunity” — no small component of which is the idea. The idea is [...]