If you google for “saca tech ransomware” you will find a number of videos and various marketing pieces from Saca Technologies / IronOrbit talking about how to protect yourself from ransomware. But apparently, the company wasn’t able to protect itself,…
Category: cloud computing
What I learned in 2017 as CTO for a VR startup
For me, I’ve found that I have to get my hands dirty to really understand and appreciate something. There can be a big difference between learning something in the abstract and applying it in real life, particularly in production environments.…
KiraDb lightweight open-source noSQL-style database Java API
My good friend Mark Petrovic and I are releasing KiraDB on gitub as an open-source project. KiraDB is a Java API implementing a persistent datastore for stand-alone applications. The design goal of KiraDB is to be lightweight and easy to use,…
Wow am I happy now that I didn’t deploy serious apps on Google App Engine
First released in 2008, Google App Engine (GAE or AppEngine) was Google’s first attempt to compete with Amazon Web Services in providing cloud computing platform services for developers. In earlier posts, I took some heat for concluding that Google App Engine was not…
Still searching for a decent domain registrar – Mydomain.com and 1and1.com both suck in their own ways
Out of habit as much as anything, I had been using Mydomain.com for years for all my domains (I have dozens – don’t ask). They offer a decent set of features for the money, including email forwarding and DNS management.…
Litetext for rendering text into a bitmap on Google App Engine Java
While developing Quick Bit Notes, I realized that the Google App Engine “sandbox” for Java doesn’t support AWT or other graphics Java classes, so I put together a simple “old-school” text rendering class that’s compatible with App Engine, called litetext.…
Twitmart ported OFF of Google App Engine
I discussed a few weeks ago how I had ported the Twitmart.org site to Google App Engine for Java as an experiment. This was an excellent learning experience. Unfortunately, the performance on App Engine was simply unacceptable, so now the…
Experimenting with Google AppEngine for Java
A while back, I noted that Google had announced that they would be supporting Java on their AppEngine cloud computing platform. I finally got around to working on a significant AppEngine for Java project (something beyond “hello world” or the…
Clouds forming?
I couldn’t resist. Sorry about that. From Dave Rosenberg Cloud interoperability on the horizon? I spent the first half of this week in Las Vegas at a nontech trade show, and missed both VMworld and the Red Hat Summit. However,…
Google App Engine adds Cron and Java
Google today announced that they will be supporting Java on their GAE cloud computing platform. I signed up for the beta, but don’t know when/if I’ll be approved. I also saw that the platform also now includes a cron mechanism…
