Simple development of App Engine apps using Cloud SQL - Introducing Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.5

Since we added SQL support to App Engine in the form of Google Cloud SQL, the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) team has been working hard on improving the developer experience for developing App Engine apps that can use a Cloud SQL instance as the backing database. We are pleased to announce the availability of Google Plugin for Eclipse 2.5. GPE 2.5 simplifies app development by eliminating the need for manual tasks like copying Cloud JDBC drivers,...

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App Engine 1.6.1 Released

We have one more release this year to make our developers merry, and while some members of our team enjoy the summer sunshine down under, we’ll be taking a short winter break from releases. Don’t worry, we’ll be back to our normal schedule in January, but we couldn’t resist tempting you with some new features that will keep you up tinkering well past midnight on January 1st.Platform ChangesFrontend Instance Classes - For applications that need more CPU and/or memory to serve requests, we’ve introduced two larger frontend instance classes. Before...

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Whentotweet.com - Twitter analytics for the masses

Our post today comes from Stefan and Niklas of Whentotweet.com, a nifty site that recommends the best time of day to tweet based on your followers’ habits. Twitter handles an amazing number of Tweets - over 200 million tweets are sent per day. We saw that many Twitter users were tweeting interesting content but much of it was lost in the constant stream of tweets. Whentotweet.com is bornWhile there were many tools for corporate Twitter users that performed deep analytics and provided insight into their tweets, there were none that answered the...

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