Google Phone

I am looking forward to the Google Phone.

RedbirdApps.com

I've "soft" launched my latest endeavor: redbirdapps.com.

Our first application we call the Better Business Card for Android. This product grew from the idea that if you have a smart phone, you shouldn't have a dumb business card. The goal is to merge the purpose of the business card with the capabilities of your mobile phone.

AWS RDB

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released it's latest kick-ass cloud service: Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service). It is, simply stated, a managed EC2 instance of a MySQL database service.

I'm creating my first RDS database now for a new site/service I'll be releasing soon. My only request, so far, would be that they add support for it to the AWS Console.

South for Django

Just made good use of South for database migrations for my Django application. Like most good things in the Django community "it just worked." Magnificent.

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) today. The whole process, including downloading about 1 GB worth of packages, took little more than an hour. And so far it's flawless. I wonder if the upgrade to Windows 7 is similar?

Droid compared to iPhone

TechCrunch has an excellent comparison of the iPhone and the Motorola Droid (coming very soon).

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/10/30/smartphone-showdown-iphone-3gs-vs-motorola-droid/

New AppEngine Features

The latest version of Google's AppEngine (1.2.6) contains two nifty new features: the ability to receive incoming email (which is turned into an HTTP request) and the ability to delete an app.

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/10/app-engine-sdk-126-released-with.html