Tagged: programming

Google recently released a little gem, called GoogleCL, a python-bsaed, command-line interface (CLI) for it's data APIs.

About the Tool

From the Google Open Source blog,

GoogleCL is a command-line utility that provides access to various Google services. It streamlines tasks such as posting to a Blogger blog, adding events to Calendar, or editing documents on Google Docs.

Although it's more targeted at power users, I feel that non-power users or non-programming oriented users should not dismiss this CLI tool.

In my personal opinion, although Google does have excellent interfaces for their services, using this tool would make ...

Having a day job as well as going to full-time studies seriously takes up a lot of time. It doesn't help that technology moves at an astounding pace.

With the release of WordPress 3.0 (And in the midst of my exams!), I'll have to review my plugins as well... So I guess a list of to-dos is in order...

1. URL Shortener Plugin
   • Update FTShorten Core (It's been in incubation since January...)
   • Plugin to take into account the new filters in WP3.0
   • Test Javascript mutli-administration and editor integration
   • Re-write own service and functions
2. Establish OAuth support ...

Hello World! Yup. This would be the first post on my new blog, running on Google's App Engine framework.

As I've never written a Python application, it took a little longer to get my ideas out. Although there are many existing blog apps out there, I guess the best way to learn is to actually code it yourself. So after about a month, I'm finally satisfied enough to launch this new site, powered by my application: BlogAengin.

Old posts will still work as I did incorporate support for old articles. They can be accessed via the Legacy ...