Week in Review: Let the Gains Begin (4)
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed (87)
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This post is a guest contribution by Prieur du Plessis, writer of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog. The Olympic Games kicked off at 8:08:08 pm on Friday night, the eighth day of the eighth month of 2008. Coincidence? Not at all. The number eight is considered lucky by the Chinese, because in Cantonese (the language of South China) the word for prosperity is "fa", which sounds like "ba" (eight). Let the gains begin. ...
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"To successfully get out of a financial squeeze you need three things: 1) a cheap currency, 2) a positive yield curve, and 3) the recapitalization of bank balance sheets. With surprising speed, all three of these conditions are now being met in the US." -- Still wouldn't say we're out of the woods yet, but there's some cause for hope.
Google App Engine optimizations (2)
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Niall Kennedy's Weblog (55)
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I have developed a few web applications powered by Google App Engine since its launch in May. It has been a fairly easy transition from my traditional programming in Python and Django backed by MySQL to the distributed App Engine environment, Bigtable, and the limitations of each. I have learned a few App Engine best practices over over the past month and would like to share some best practices for App Engine development gained mostly ...
