Niall Kennedy
About: Currently a web technologist creating new communities of knowledge for the web technology startup ecosystem. Web feed and widget syndication expert.
Formerly worked in online shopping comparison, institutional investment consulting, blog search, and small business services.
Formerly coached soccer. Irish citizen. Coffee geek.
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Blog Posts
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 gain...
Announcing Widget Summit 2008
--I am hosting a my third annual Widget Summit conference November 3rd and 4th at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.
Customizing conference speeches for your audience
--Over the past few weeks new conversations have emerged regarding how conferences must change to better suit their audience. As a conference produce...
Google App Engine for developers
--Google App Engine lets any Python developer execute CGI-driven Web applications, store its results, and serve static content from a fault-tolerant ...
iPhone web app performance
--The Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo! just released a detailed performance analysis of web applications on the iPhone. Yahoo! analyzed the fu...
iPhone web app performance
--The Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo! just released a detailed performance analysis of web applications on the iPhone. Yahoo! analyzed the fu...
iPhone web app performance
--The Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo! just released a detailed performance analysis of web applications on the iPhone. Yahoo! analyzed the fu...
Sniff browser history for improved user experience
--The social web has filled our websites with too much third-party clutter as we figure out the best way to integrate content with the favorite sites...
Data interchange for the social web
--Data portability is only useful if outside systems can comprehend the exported data. Well-described and interoperable data sets open new possibilit...
Data Portability, Authentication, and Authorization
--In this post I will take a deeper look at the current best practices of the social Web from the point of view of its major data hubs. We will take ...
Bookmarks:
Protocol buffers. Google's data interchange
Protocol buffers for data interchange. Single data definition, multiple programming languages.
Jiffy front-end monitoring JavaScript
Apache-licensed front-end measurement tool that collects page events for logging to a Perl backend.
Reddit open source
Reddit code available as open source under CPAL. Python, PostgreSQL, and memcached.
MagCloud from HP Labs - Magazine printing on demand
Magazine print fulfillment service from HP using the latest Indigos. 20 cents per page print cost with $1.50 shipping for U.S. buyers only.
Dumbo: Hadoop Streaming interface for Python
Pythonic Hadoop streaming interface from the guys at LastFM.
Cross-Document Messaging in Internet Explorer 8
Plain text messages sent across frames and domains in Internet Explorer 8. The parent page is the policy verifier and traffic cop, sending and receiving messages to each contentWindow.
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