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 Cantine, Paris - Patrick Chanezon October 1 - OpenWorld Forum, Paris - Patrick Chanezon October 16 - Stack Overflow DevDays LA - Jason Cooper October 16 - HDC09, Omaha - Patrick ChanezonOctober 16 - Day of Cloud, Chicago -...
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
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 scalable application on Google App Engine, and to do so live during the event, what began as a small experiment became a huge success...
Monday, 14 September 2009
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, multiple cells, and even multiple datacenters simultaneously, so that they keep running even if any one (or more) redundant underlying parts go down. We call this multihoming. It's a term that usually applies narrowly, to networking...
Friday, 4 September 2009
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 development. In our 20% time, a we wrote a launcher for the Mac. Of course, not all App Engine developers have Macs, so more work...
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Today we are releasing version 1.2.5 of the App Engine SDK for both Python and Java, our first simultaneous release across both runtimes. We're excited about the great new functionality in this release ... including XMPP!XMPP SupportXMPP (or Jabber as it is sometimes known) is an open standard for communicating in real-time (instant messaging). One of the most popular API requests in the App Engine issue tracker has been support for XMPP, so today...
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