Google Reader adds to trends view

Google Reader has added some more stats up at the top.  Number of subscriptions, 30 days summary, when you started using Google reader, and total number of articles read

From your 233 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,227 items, clicked 6 items, starred 0 items, shared 62 items, and emailed 28 items.

How fuc**d is your database?

Are you using PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, SQLite, MS Access, or NoSQL?

http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/

Gmail to real phone calling

We’re playing with this at the office, pretty slick.  Seems like google just really wants to be skype though

Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if you could call people directly on their phones?”

Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail.”

Full info can be found here

AMC’S THE WALKING DEAD Trailer

Very excited for this!

Digg 4v and Hulu Plus invites to give away

If anyone wants invites to the new Digg site, or a Hulu Plus invite that can be activated right now, Post in the comments and I’ll divvy them out

Why VPS?

Lately the four main web hosting options are shared, VPS, dedicated, or a cloud based solution.  I’ll follow up on this article at a later date with my experience with Amazon’s cloud solution.  We are rolling out a magento install into the cloud in a few weeks and I’ll be commenting on how that goes.  To start off, what is VPS web hosting?

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a hosting environment that combines the benefits of both shared hosting and dedicated hosting. It does this by creating a virtual server that runs inside a hardware server via a specially designed partition. So why would you need one over shared hosting?

  • Speed: Much faster then shared hosting.  There are fewer people sharing resources on the server and you have guaranteed resources.  If another site is hogging 100% of the cpu on its VPS, this will not effect your sites performance.  A VPS can handle might higher traffic loads then shared hosting.
  • Security: Your files are isolated from other VPS instances
  • Full root access to your instance
  • Reboot: Reboot apache or your whole server instance without effecting the other servers
  • Cost: Much cheaper then a dedicated instance with almost the same control/resources
  • More space for files
  • Custom Instances:  More control over what you get, and is not dependent on the other instances on the same physical server.  With shared hosting the provider usually picks the OS, with VPS there are usually dozens of options.
  • Private email, IP, and domain: Shared hosts will have one email server for all the hosts
  • Custom Security policies: From on server virus scanning to a customizable firewall
  • Reseller: if you have extra resources available you can usually resell these

The top VPS Hosting providers according to Web Hosting Geeks are:

Powering Chrome to Phone with Android to Device Messaging

Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) was launched recently as part of Android 2.2. C2DM enables third-party developers to push lightweight data messages to the phone. C2DM created a nice opportunity for us to pull together different Google developer tools to create a simple but useful application to enable users to push links and other information from their desktop / laptop to their phone. The result was Chrome to Phone – a 20-percent time project at Google.

Chrome to Phone comprises a Chrome Extension, an Android Application, and a Google AppEngine server. All of the code is open sourced and serves as a nice example of how to use C2DM.

I really can’t wait for the 2.2 update to my phone.

Check out the technical brief here

Fake Stan Lee vs. Comic Con 2009

Avengers teaser trailer from Comic Con

gpowered.net is now timbroder.com

Hi all,

some of you may have noticed this site is no longer on the gpowered.net domain.  I’ve been wanting to move onto wordpress for a while now and also do some additional writing beyond code stuffs which would be outside of the scope of gpowered.  I also unfortunately (or fortunately because I love my job) don’t have as much time as I used to to research and post how to’s.  Heavy django and magento going on lately, I’ll try to post about those.

There are two RSS links at the top, RSS has everything on this site including gpowered.  the gpowered RSS will continue to contain only tech articles.

Let me know of any issues on the new site



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