Michael T

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Google offers free wifi at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport

Michael T posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 4:38 pm
Google has it's eye on being the provider of all things web (not exactly news) and is getting a feel for the logistics with WiFi. The three services (Phone, Internet, Information access - Search) ...
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Google needs to write a grammar check app

Michael T posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 3:48 am
This is the email I received to attend a webinar. Getting from more from Google Apps with Premier Edition You're already working smarter with Google Apps, now give your business the Google Apps...
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CMS for Google app engine

Michael T posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 9:57 am
I have been thinking about creating a CMS for Google app engine (I found this nice small CMS for GAE - TurbineCMS Andris Reinman blogs about it). I don't want to use a framework other than native ...
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Serving images from django template in Google app engine

Michael T posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 2:02 pm
This is a quick solution to a problem I was having with learning Google App Engine and hope this helps someone with the same problem. The demonstration code from google app engine for using the image...
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Post index test for Oct 13

Michael T posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 2:18 pm
After putting all 40 top search terms from Google for a particular day, I received 1 visitor based on the jumble of key terms. It was for "american math challenge". But what if I were put the terms ...
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Some of my favorite Plone sites

Michael T posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 12:19 pm
Below are some of my favorite sites developed with Plone. Since many sites developed with Plone look similar sometimes, I am always impressed when one comes along and you can't tell what was used ...
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Three web analytic tips I learned in the last three days

Michael T posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 4:27 am
One of the problems I was trying to address with the new site design was short visit length. I have been getting plenty of visits from Stumbleupon but looking at my statcounter reports I was unhappy w...
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afewtips.com has moved to EC2

Michael T posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 10:50 am
Over the weekend I moved afewtips.com to the Amazon EC2 platform. My Plone site is using nginx in front of Varnish and a Haproxy load balancing 2 zeo clients in front of a Zope server. I have gotten ...
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Amazon lowers reserved instance price

Michael T posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 8:31 am
This weekend (Aug 22, 2009) I was planning on moving afewtips.com from Slicehost to Linode. The more I looked at the price of EC2, the more I felt that it was a bit of overkill for my little site. And...
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Plone, Sitefinity and Magnolia comparison

Michael T posted an article on - Aug 6, 2009, 11:42 am
I have begun some development on a new magazine website and I am not sure which CMS I should use. I don't have huge requirements, ease of design is important. I need a solid base of users and I ...
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Create a Plone instance on EC2 and save as AMI

Michael T posted an article on - Jul 26, 2009, 12:11 pm
After watching from the sideline for a while, I finally sat down and created a Plone instance on EC2 and saved the AMI image to S3 for later use. Below are the sites I used and some problems I had cre...
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Calling a python script with a parameter from a Plone template

Michael T posted an article on - Jul 11, 2009, 4:20 pm
I am writing a pagination product (I'm surprised none exists) to paginate an article based on a sequence of characters in the content to define the page breaks. Example: ++++++ The pagination is a...
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