Month: August 2009

  • links for 2009-08-18

    asynctools – Project Hosting on Google Code asynctools is a library allowing you to execute Google App Engine API calls in parallel. API calls can be mixed together and queued up and then all are kicked off in parallel. Callbacks can be used to operate over completed calls immediately, if desired. (tags: software opensource python […]

  • links for 2009-08-15

    Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (tags: content research gartner cms wcm) Page2Pub | Open Publishing Lab Page2Pub is a pair of applications that collect content from the web and reformat it for publication across a wide range of media. (tags: software opensource ereading epub page2pub) How do you […]

  • (Centralized) URL Shorteners considered harmful (Part II)

    This is a follow up post on this post, detailing  bullet points 1 – 4 . Reasons for not having centralized URL shorteners Back on May 1st  using short urls on twitter were really taking off (at least in my perception). Tinyurl was the default shortener used by twitter. bit.ly only had only gotten my […]