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Introducing the Google Command Line Tool

Posted by Rich Chuckrey in Shorts

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Google has taken yet another bold step in opening up their services with GoogleCL.

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.

Not quite sure if GoogleCL streamlines Google services for the novice user, but it certainly brings significant advantages to the intermediate and advanced folks.

Here are some example scripts from Google Code:

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Cloud Computing Conundrum At Coghead

Posted by Rich Chuckrey in Articles

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coghead.jpgJust as cloud computing picks up steam and recognition, Coghead’s PaaS cloud is closing down on April 30, 2009. Their failure to raise funds and monetize their business model is forcing all Coghead users into offloading data and rewriting their specialized drag-and-drop database applications.

Coghead’s conundrum is one to take note of and typical of the risk involved with moving operations into a cloud computing environment. Lose your cloud provider and your faced with data migrations, application redesign and even worse – company downtime.

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