Heartbleed, meet Google App Engine

The Heartbleed Overflow Issue is a bug that adversely affects network security. By exploiting this vulnerability, encrypted data may become compromised during transmission. Individuals responsible for hosting web applications that require a high level of security may find themselves scrambling to find ways to patch their servers so as to minimize Heartbleed's impact on their operations. That is, those individuals who aren't hosting their applications on Google App Engine.

Back to Basics: Template-Driven Documentation

Documentation is something that some see as a necessary evil; others look at it as a needless chore better left to someone else; others still see documentation as the indicator of a job well done. Documentation templates can help bring all of these different perspectives together and write quality software that's easier and less expensive to maintain and extend.

John Coggin, user experience expert, joins KDA Web Technologies

Designer, developer and user experience expert John Coggin joins KDA with more than two years experience working with some of Google’s largest enterprise customers.

A Week of Software Development from a Chromebook

Google's wildly popular Chromebook laptop was designed around a very simple concept - provide a platform whose only application is a web browser.

This allows Google to provide a very cost-effective, energy-efficient, and extremely user-friendly platform. But with only a web browser, is it possible to use a Google Chromebook to do development work? White Stratus Development Lead Wes Dean spent a week using only a Chromebook and found that it didn't slow him down in the least!

Read more on the White Stratus Blog.

Wes Dean, a Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist and a Google Apps Trusted Tester, is Principal of KDA Web Technologies, a Google-Centric development firm and a Google Apps Authorized Reseller. To learn how Wes and KDA Web Technologies can help you, go to www.kdaweb.com.

Google Blog post describes KDA-supported project

KDA Principal and White Stratus Development Lead Wes Dean led proof-of-concept projects for Travis Perkins as a part of the UK company's efforts to innovate with Google. TP sought to go beyond more than just Gmail and Google Calendars.  

For project details, read Google's complete post on its Official Enterprise Blog by guest blogger JJ Van Oosten, Group CIO for Travis Perkins plc,* the largest supplier of building and home improvement materials in the United Kingdom, at: 

• http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/10/google-enterprise-brings-travis-perkins.html

Dean said, "I had the privilege of working with JJ and his team at TP's Northampton, UK corporate headquarters in April of 2013.  In addition to the technologies listed in JJ's post -- Google Apps, Google Chrome, and Google+ -- our work utilized Google Cloud Platform, including Google App Engine and Google Cloud SQL."

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Wes Dean, a Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist and a Google Apps Trusted Tester, is Principal of KDA Web Technologies, a Google-Centric development firm and a Google Apps Authorized Reseller. To learn how Wes and KDA Web Technologies can help you, go to www.kdaweb.com.

* nothing written here is intended to imply, explicitly or implicitly, that Travis Perkins endorses or recommends White Stratus or KDA Web Technologies.  KDA Web Technologies was contracted by Google Apps Reseller White Stratus to complete the scope of work required by Travis Perkins.