Comments on: Going Google

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:34:16 +0000

I also forgot “willing to put up with us doing crazy things like dumping liquid nitrogen on his desk”!

By: Seth Vidal

Seth Vidal — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:18:55 +0000

Umm, Just a note, in addition to kind-hearted you forgot dashing and charming.

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links for 2009-11-19 | GFMorris.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:31:43 +0000

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:22:42 +0000

Geof: I feel the compulsion to say that most of the duplication confusion Stephen is talking about isn’t a problem with Google Apps per-se, but only a problem for people who also actively use a non-Apps Google account. I do wish they would add Reader to Google Apps, though.

Amy and I shifted our email over to Apps many many months ago, and we’re absolutely thrilled with it. I haven’t done a measurement of “how many nines” we’re actually getting, but I really can only remember one incident where a problem with Google kept me from my email. Reliability simply hasn’t been an issue, and certainly not one that would compel me to pay for a service.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:18:04 +0000

Geof: it appeals to my cheap-ass nature and fits in with what I was already doing.

Chris: Google Apps is a service Google offers to use their stuff with your own custom domain. I’ve signed up for a Google Apps account with granades.com, and that gets me granades.com-specific email, docs, calendar, chat, etc. It’s separate from a standard Gmail account.

Then there’s your Google Account, which gives you access to Gmail, Google Reader, calendar, etc.

There are things that are available both as a Google Apps thing and with a Google Account (Gmail, Calendar) , and there are things that are only available with a Google Account (Reader).

Yes, this is very confusing; why do you ask?

So the end result is that I have my old Gmail account and a new granades.com email. I have my old Calendar and my new granades.com calendar.

By: Chris S.

Chris S. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:43:24 +0000

Well crap, your not talking about Google App Engine (GAE) you’re talking about Google Apps. Which is apparently a different service completely. So is this Google Apps e-mail separate from a typical gmail account?

By: Chris S.

Chris S. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:35:29 +0000

Hey if you’ve got questions about Google App Engine I might be able to lend a hand. I’ve been working on a crafting database for Aion (the current MMO I play) and did it all with python/web2py/Google App Engine mainly because free is very tempting.

I knew you could send/receive e-mail with the App Engine but I haven’t messed with it. I’ll be curious to hear how you set it up.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:08 +0000

And this is better than my setup … how, exactly?!

[You're probably gonna tell me that GApps is free, and then I'm just gonna shut up. But I have no problem paying for five-nines uptime on my email.]