Google App Engine Blog:
When choosing a platform to power a new application that will be used by popular media sites, some of the criteria we look for are scalability, ease of deployment, and ease of management. As with the nature of news and media, traffic can go up and down without much warning and getting new content out of the door quickly is (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
Here are some of the recent developments from the greater developer community.deferred.deferNick Johnson recently added a new module to the App Engine Python SDK which allows you to use the task queue service to execute deferred function calls. This library requires minimal configuration and makes it even easier to use task (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
Congratulations to Audrey Roy -- her "Price It By Phone" application won the Google App Engine + Twilio developer contest that ran from September 21st to October 4th. Audrey will receive $1000 in Google App Engine credit, and a Dell Netbook from Twilio.Audrey hacked together her contest submission in under 48 hours after g (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
We're pleased to announce that you can now submit and comment on App Engine news and articles on a new App Engine specific section of the popular social media site, reddit. Our subreddit is for any articles, blog posts, or other content relevant to App Engine, and is actively moderated and maintained by the App Engine team. (Read More)
Nico's shared items in Google Reader:
When XMPP support in Google App Engine was announced, it occurred to me that it would be pretty easy to use it to do a PubSubHubbub-to-XMPP bridge. Other things came up, but I was reminded again of the possibility when a "Oh, you didn't you see my Reader share?" conversation happened in a Partychat room. A bit of searching (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
We hope you've been enjoying the new XMPP API we shipped in App Engine release 1.2.5. We're always impressed with the cool scenarios our developers create!A couple of Google engineers found the time to create cool App Engine demos using the XMPP API and we'd like to share them with you.CrowdGuru - this app, courtesy of App (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
This week, Google App Engine and Twilio challenge you to build voice or voice-enhanced applications hosted on App Engine that use Twilio's voice application API to make and receive phone calls. Submit your app by October 4th to win a Dell Netbook from Twilio and $1000 of App Engine hosting credit from Google.Twilio hosts a (Read More)
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from Google Reader:
[Editor’s Note: This afternoon at about lunch time, I got pinged on the new hire of Harper Reed, former CTO at Threadless, as something called a Nepholologist at the Rackspace cloud division. In fact, I was pinged about six times from several different people, which was why it was pretty serendipitous that our own Kristen (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
It's September and the fall conference calendar is starting to fill up. Members of the App Engine team will present at these conferences: join us if you are in the area, and feel free to tweet @app_engine if you want us to participate in local developer community events around these dates! September 29 - Barcamp at La Can (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
I work for Norex, a web development company in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As part of our sponsorship of the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Halifax (Canoe '09), we developed an application to deliver real time race results to standard and mobile web browsers. Thanks to the ability to rapidly develop and deploy a sc (Read More)
Delicious hotlist:
Photo by s2photoWith the economy reeling and VC’s spending less and less on startups, developers have had to adapt how they create sites. Because of the world’s economic state, we’ve had to change how we develop.Some may see this shift as a grim prospect. Change is hard, and change is essential to staying alive in these con (Read More)
Buzztracker.com - Venture Capital:
Image via WikipediaI just got out of a meeting with Paypal where we were talking about their new platform (which will make it cheaper and easier for startups to build payments systems and take money. High on the list of new features is split payments which allows developers who sell third party products to make a single ch (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
At Google, we've learned through experience to treat everything with healthy skepticism. We expect that servers, racks, shared GFS cells, and even entire datacenters will occasionally go down, sometimes with little or no warning. This has led us to try as hard as possible to design our products to run on multiple servers, m (Read More)
Google Public Policy Blog:
Posted by Brian Fitzpatrick, Data Liberation engineering managerImagine you want to move out of your apartment. When you ask your landlord about the terms of your previous lease, he says that you are free to leave at any time; however, you cannot take all of your things with you - not your photos, your keepsakes, or your cl (Read More)
Google App Engine Blog:
As recently announced on the Google App Engine Blog, the 1.2.5 SDK for Python now includes a GUI for creating, running, and deploying App Engine applications when developing on Windows. We call this the Google App Engine Launcher.About a year ago, a few of us recognized a need for a client tool to help with App Engine deve (Read More)