Sunday, 12 May 2013

The results are in: Hardcode, the secure coding contest for App Engine

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Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #65)

Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.

PyOhio 2013 Call for Proposals due June 1st

News from the Python community: PyOhio 2013 Call for Proposals due June 1st PyOhio (July 27-28, 2013, Columbus, OH, USA) has released its Call for Proposals, due June 1. See http://pyohio.org/call-for-proposals/. Python 3.2.4 and 3.3.1 have been released Python 3.2.4 and Python 3.3.1 final have been released.

Staying centered

The following is a post from Frank X. Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft.




There are many advantages to living in a world t

Symfony 2.3.0 Beta 2 released

A week after the release of the first Symfony 2.3 beta, here is the second and last one.


If you want to help us, please, test this version on your existing projects or play with it on a new

The Pirate Bay now offering banned 3D-printed gun files

The State Department has successfully demanded the removal of the files from Defcad. The Pirate Bay has picked up the slack. (Credit: Screenshot by Dara Kerr/CNET) For those who worry that even 24 hours without the ability to download 3D-printed gun blueprints is too much, fret no more: The Pirate Bay is on the case.

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 10, 2013

Friday, May 10, 2013 at 9:00AM Hey, it's HighScalability time: Nanoscale: Plants IM Using Nanoscale Sound Waves; 100 petabytes: CERN data storage Quotable Quotes: Geoff Arnold: Arguably all interesting advances in computer science and software engineering occur when a resource that was previously scarce or expensive becomes cheap and plentiful.

NASA Sets TV Briefing Today to Discuss Space Station Status

NASA Sets TV Briefing Today to Discuss Space Station Status HOUSTON -- NASA managers will discuss the status of the International Space Station, including the latest on an external cooling loop leak that developed Thursday, during a televised briefing today at 3 p.m. CDT (4 p.m. EDT).

NASA Extends Safety and Mission Assurance Contract at Marshall

NASA Extends Safety and Mission Assurance Contract at Marshall HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- NASA has exercised a second two-year award term option with Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston for continued services to support the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

Welcome to the Google Cloud Platform blog

Welcome to the Google Cloud Platform blog, the evolution of the Google App Engine blog, which continues as a key component of our broader Google Cloud Platform vision. On this blog, you can find product updates, developer tips, and other content related to Google Cloud Platform.

Tune in live to Google Cloud Platform at Google I/O 2013

Google I/O 2013 is only a week away! We look forward to sharing updates across Google Cloud Platform. Here's everything you need to know to keep up with the latest happenings at I/O. This year, we will have a Google Cloud Platform track kickoff given by Urs Holzle, Senior Vice President of Technical Infrastructure, on Wednesday, May 15th at 12:45 PM Pacific.

Bringing Debian to Google Compute Engine


This was an exciting week for the Debian community who released Debian 7.0 ?wheezy? that brings big impro

Automatically Process Cloud Storage Uploads with Change Notifications


Do your customers upload files to Google Cloud Storage for your applications to process? For example, a photo app

Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #62)

Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about cloud computing and Windows Azure.

App Engine 1.7.7 Released

3 weeks following our last release, the App Engine team is happy to announce 1.7.7. We plan to deliver our Google I/O release next month. Outbound sockets moved to Preview Outbound sockets is now in preview in this release for and .

Python 2.5, thanks for the good times


Python 2.5 has a special place in the heart of any

Google Compute Engine - Expanded Availability, New Features, and Lower Prices




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Integrate Voice and SMS with Twilio on Google Cloud Platform




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Education Awards on Google App Engine

Last year we invited proposals for innovative projects built on Google's infrastructure. Today we are pleased to announce the 11 recipients of a Google App Engine Education Award . Professors and their students are using the award in cloud computing courses to study databases, distributed systems, web mashups and to build educational applications.

App Engine 1.7.6 Released

The App Engine team is continuing to make monthly improvements to our platform. We have a number of new features and fixes for this month's release. New App Engine billing system for paid applications We're making it easier to pay for App Engine each billing cycle by transitioning to a new billing system.