Development

I noticed an article from ZDNet announcing that Google plans to double Gmail capacity--at least.. I was first a little leary since it is April 1st but then remembered that Gmail was announced last April 1st so Google appears to have a sense of humor.

Here are some screenshots from my Gmail account that shows that they are in fact bumping up the storage as we speak. Notice the total amount of storage available:

I guess what suprises me most is the fact that it is slowly building up to the 2GB capacity. Is this dynamically adding the available storage based on how much drive space is available to the system? Could they possibly be allocating this much storage for EVERY user instead of counting on the 80/20 theory where 80% of users use 20% of the resources while the other 20% use 80%??

Here is some information on how to download a file over an HTTPS connection from PHP. This normally is not a big issue in both IE and Mozilla for HTTP but changing to a HTTPS connection breaks using IE for downloading.

For anyone looking at this issue of http vs https downloads I found that the only change I had to make to my working script was to add the header line:

header("Pragma: cache");

So my script ended up with the following:

Yahoo has one-upped Google with the announcement of their API. Google has been doing this for a while now (3 years), but you never hear anything new about it like you do with Amazon's API where new applications seems to appear on a daily basis.

The SDK includes BSD-licensed examples in Perl, Python, PHP, Java and JavaScript (Google's SDK includes Java and .NET examples), and accesses Image, Web, Video, Local, and News searches (last time I looked, Google did Web, Cache, and Spelling)! Yahoo's API uses REST rather than SOAP, which I personally find much easier to work with.