Google recently released the Logs Reader API which allows programmatic access to App Engine logs. A quick perusal of the documentation showed its interface to be consistent with the continuation interface provided by Fantasm. As a proof of concept, we built the logcollector application that combines the Logs Reader...
Brendan speaks! Over on his personal blog, VendAsta CEO Brendan King has just concluded a one-year experiment in non-blogging. He spent 2011 learning the ropes on Twitter, and after twelve months seems to have concluded that pith, concision, and haphazard abbreviation aren’t really his style. (Mine either.) Brendan told...
We just signed a deal with AD Ideas, the San Antonio-based specialists in directory advertising, to supply online reputation management to local directory publishers and their advertisers. As a VendAsta Platform Partner, AD Ideas will provide our software to their client list of independent directory publishers, who will in...
Introduction At VendAsta we needed to migrate a number of applications from the Master/Slave datastore to the High-Replication datastore. This process is straightforward, and Google provides tools to facilitate it. However, there is no Google tool to migrate blobstore data between applications. This posting describes the approach developed and...
We’ve spent the last year assembling a menu of products that augment our traditional expertise in reputation management for SMBs. There’s a reason we’ve chosen to build these particular products. They go together – not just in the sense that they all deal directly or indirectly with reputation, but...
This past Saturday, the fourth floor of the Avenue Building was unusually crowded with smart people. Why the mob? Because VendAsta stepped up to host BarCamp 2011, Saskatoon’s premier celebration of all things smart and geeky. Last year, when BarCamp was at Louis’ Pub, we nonplussed attendees with our...
Rolling up reputation results from locations nationwide. Last month our partners at LocalBizNOW rolled out VendAsta’s newest product to one of their biggest clients – a major brand with over 1400 locations in the United States (whom I unfortunately can’t name). This lucky client is getting a first look...
This carefully-lit photo was taken a kilometre underground in the potash mine at Allan, Saskatchewan, this past Friday. Guy and I are with Emil and Darren, safety trainers at Allan, whom we helped to film two new instructional videos for their online training system. The training software we originally...
So on Friday we moved into our new office, and it’s…well, I’m not gonna lie, right now it kinda looks like a bunch of nerds decided to bring their laptops to a construction site. Contractors are still running wires and carrying ladders to and fro. But it’ll be pretty...
September 29, 2011 – Saskatchewan mobile internet usage has exploded in recent years, changing the way we search for local businesses. To help advertisers reach these customers on the move, DirectWest Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation (SaskTel), together with Saskatoon software developers VendAsta, are excited...
