Easy: they should expose a gdata API for AppEngine itself.

Developers would need to support AppEngine’s restrictions and quirks (bot not exclusively, an app can be written so support AE as well as standard deployment environments).

Google would need to expose methods for listing, creating, and updating application containers, and allow apps to be updated using an authorization token instead of a name and password.

On the just-released Gary’s Guide DC events page:

• The mapping bit is nice
• We both have events the other doesn’t
• Offering a daily events subscription is an interesting choice.
• The design is nice and clean

The best way I think I can respond is:

A twitter update from Shashi led to an article on James Hong, creator of (among other things) Hot Or Not, where at some point between 2000 and 2003 I uploaded a photo of myself, probably obsessed over it for a few weeks, and then promptly forgot about it.

So I haven’t looked at this thing in 5 years or more, and was suddenly curious about what my rating might be.

The answer? Slightly above average.

This weekend is a pre-Grand Opening "parts party" for HACDC:

Would you eat meat grown in a lab?

It makes me quite happy that Eavesdrop DC posted one I submitted.

Tech Cocktail DC 2 is on April 24th.

11 months ago this week, I published a short email interview with Nick O’ Neill and Frank Gruber about Tech Cocktail DC 1.

This is based on no real information, and includes events and groups I haven’t participated with, but I submit to you that the graphic below is a *reasonable* snapshot of the local tech community, even with at least two notable blind-spots (Enterprise IT and Government Everything).

Also note that the two axis I’ve chosen do not represent any sort of value judgement. I personally find the stuff on the right more interesting,  but I’m glad it all exists.

May have more later.

Bonnie Bogle sends word that Downtown Drupal-shop Development Seed is holding an event tomorrow on Google’s Summer of Code 2008: