July 2008 archives

  1. Writing Flash for search engines

    On June 30 Adobe announced a partnership with Google and Yahoo! to better index SWF content on the Web. Search engines can now look inside the binary SWF format to extract text, links, and possible actions. In this post I will take a deeper look at search engine Flash interpreters and provide a few tips for successful indexing.

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  2. Google App Engine optimizations

    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 through trial and error. In this post I will share data optimization tips for Google's hosted Bigtable instance, reduce the errors and resource usage of your application, and add a few steps to your deployment checklist.

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