Wooji Juice

Articles for July 2008

The AppEngine Bulk Loader

So, something I've spent a lot of time doing recently, is waiting for the AppEngine Bulk Loader to finish. At the moment, there's nothing in the admin console to bulk add, edit or delete entries in your Datastore — you can create or edit entities singly, and you can tick off and delete up to 20 at a time, but that's your lot.

The officially-sanctioned bodge for this is the Bulk Loader. Though not well-documented, this is quite a powerful (if slow) tool.

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Warren Ellis, Reddit And Digg Will Destroy The Internet

So, there's a nicely over-stated title to get me rolling...

Warren Ellis posted today about the Patchwork Years of the Internet, and how the "link curation" style of blogging — Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom, for example — is kind of a historical artefact, that BoingBoing and a handful of others have this taken care of. Most people are shifting to a more personal style of blogging — either the ever-popular navel-gazing, sending short messages, or linking to friends' work. Or hiding behind walls, where we can't see or interact with them.

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New Look Wooji Juice

So, we've just unveiled a new look for the Wooji Juice website. This is part of getting ready for a new product launch, so there'll be a few more changes to come as we shuffle everything into place.

If you bookmarked anything on our site, everything should still be where you left it — we haven't broken any links. Most things haven't moved, and we put redirects in place for the few that have. Notably, the articles section has been folded back into the main blog, so you might see some reposts in the newsfeed.

Tag Archive

Some of the more common tags are listed below. Click a tag to see the title of every article which has that tag. Remember, articles can have more than one tag, so they may appear in several lists.

Note: The tags don't just apply to the blog — this includes articles and pages across the site.

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Secrets of Twitter

People sure do love to talk about what they can't talk about :)