Debugging your Google OAuth 2.0 token when you get HTTP 401s or 403s
One of the things I get asked about the most is OAuth 2.0 when developers start seeing 401s, 403s, and possibly other HTTP 4xx status ... Read More
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Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js
There’s an article on highscalability that’s talking about the move from Rails to node.js (for completeness: its sister discussion on Hacker News). It’s not the first time this ... Read More
Getting started with jOOQ: A Tutorial
Introduction I accidentally stumbled onto jOOQ a few days ago while doing a lot of research on Hibernate. Funny how things work, isn’t it? For ... Read More
Setting up an OAuth provider on Google App Engine
App Engine provides an API for easily creating an OAuth provider. In this blog post, I’ll describe the following steps: Create and deploy an App ... Read More
App Engine datastore tip: monotonically increasing values are bad
When saving entities to App Engine’s datastore at a high write rate, avoid monotonically increasing values such as timestamps. Generally speaking, you don’t have to ... Read More
GWT, Blobstore, the new high performance image serving API, and cute dogs on office chairs
I’ve been working on an image sharing application using GWT and App Engine to familiarize myself with the newer aspects of GWT. The project and ... Read More
Using the Java Mapper Framework for App Engine
The recently released Mapper framework is the first part of App Engine’s mapreduce offering. In this post, we’ll be discussing some of the types of operations we ... Read More
Using Asynchronous URLFetch on Java App Engine
Developers building applications on top of Java App Engine can use the familiar java.net interface for making off-network calls. For simple requests, this should be more than ... Read More
Using the bulkloader with Java App Engine
The latest release of the datastore bulkloader greatly simplifies import and export of data from App Engine applications for developers. We’ll go through a step by step ... Read More
Using pattern matching with regular expressions in Scala
I’ve been trying to use Scala more and more so I can gain some experience and exposure to it. A couple of weeks ago, I ... Read More