News About Google App Engine

Java, next App Engine Language ?

dgirard — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:27:00 +0200

symbiontnet

The next App Engine language is going to be Java, but with a limited API, utilizing some kind of translation in the compiler and potentially running on something like Dalvik. They will offer a framework like they do with webapp in Python, but based on Guice.

Java The Next App Engine Language?

Bungee Labs, an alternative to AppEngine ?

dgirard — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:38:00 +0200

Jesse Stay

While at Web 2.0 Expo I had the opportunity to meet with Bungee Labs, a local, well funded Utah company who had “Platform as a Service” down before Google even started thinking about their App Engine. In our meeting they demoed their Bungee Connect “IDE” (written entirely on the web). You can see the video below.

Utah Startup Series: Bungee Labs

Once upon a time, I had to try to scale

dgirard — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:34:00 +0200

Alexking.org

As you’ve no doubt heard already, Google released Google App Engine at the Google Campfire One event last night. Folks, this is a real game changer. Scalability has been the final frontier for web applications for far too long. For web developers like myself, the “building the app” part of offering a web service is the easy part. The challenge comes when you try to scale it.

Google App Engine

Get up for code, stay up for sysadmin : no thanks

dgirard — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:19:00 +0200

In my opinion App Engine is a revolution. I’m a programmer. Programming gets me out of bed in the morning. Sysadmin on the other hand, keeps me up at night. I hate tweaking, deploying and installing. If you’re anything like me, App Engine will put your life on easy mode.

App Engine Changes Everything

Google App Engine in Java

dgirard — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:15:00 +0200

It is certainly possible to write in Java, convert with java2python and upload to Google Servers.

http://code.google.com/p/java2python/

I still expect a full java version of GAE.

Technorati

dgirard — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:08:00 +0200

Technorati Profile

Google App Engine Limits

dgirard — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:25:00 +0200

j2ee-now

Google App Engine has many unknown limits and resterictions, here are few of them...

Google App Engine Limits

GAE : The web as a commodity

dgirard — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:05:00 +0200

aralbalkan :

I had the honor of meeting Tim several years ago during a talk he was giving in London on the Open Source Paradigm Shift. In his talk, Tim predicted the mainstream commoditization of the web. Four years later, we stand as witnesses to the birth of the Commodity Web with Google's release of Google App Engine. (Simon Wardley, recently chronicled this very subject with great eloquence at his keynote speech at XTech.)

Singularity web conference speaker spotlight: Tim O’Reilly

Not so new technologies to build a startup

dgirard — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:39:00 +0200

nhlog

Interestingly enough, Google is a recent newcomer to this game: it's app engine launched one month ago. I have heard that it is pretty limiting, but I do not have (for now) experience in working with AWS either.

Not so new technologies to build a startup

TinyDB - powered by Google App Engine

dgirard — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:37:00 +0200

kid666.com

TinyDB is a new micro database app that allows you to easily get and set data to a URL and then access it again. It supports JSON and XML formats. I really like the concept a lot.

http://kid666.com/blog/2008/05/11/tinydb-an-actual-useful-app-built-on-appengine/

PyAMF Release support for GAE

dgirard — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:31:00 +0200

Moxie Zhang

PyAMF 0.3.1 was released this week, just in time to meet the increased interest on Python and RIA generated by the recent preview release of Google App Engine and the announcement of Adobe's Open Screen Project.

PyAMF is an open source project that provides action message format (AMF) support for Python. This allows for AMF-based communication between Python-powered Web servers and rich Internet application (RIA) clients in Flash, Flex or AIR.

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/pyamf-supports-GAE

Enjoyable Deployements

dgirard — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:25:00 +0200

araddon

Wow, i have deployed several versions of this blog now to update a few things, and am completely blown away at how enjoyable and easy doing deployments with App Engine is.

Enjoyable Deployments! Google App Engine's best feature

Initial Thoughts on Google App Engine

dgirard — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:36:00 +0200

DotNetMafia

If you haven't heard of Google App Engine by now, you've probably been living under a rock. I won't try to explain it, or even include any links. Go check out what google has to say about it: it's intriguing, at the very worst.

It's really the first step toward the distributed web as a viable application platform.

Initial Thoughts on Google App Engine

Ytalk like multiuser chat

dgirard — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:29:00 +0200

Majek

This is a follow up on my last post describing missing services for AppEngine. The idea is to help developers writing apps for AppEngine by providing them some common functionality missing and impossible to have on AppEngine and offer them as external services.

Google App Engine: Ytalk like multiuser chat

Missing features

dgirard — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:26:00 +0200

Majek

Google App Engine is a great product, but it lacks several features. I created few simple services to help GAE developers. Of course services aren't GAE specific, you can use them from any site.

The services are:

Image resizing

Cron service

Comet service

Missing services for Google App Engine (comet as a service!)

Google App Engine support Java ?

dgirard — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:19:00 +0200

Rick Ross

This must come from the “They know someth ing we don’t know” department, because Google’s newly announced Google App Engine lets you program in any language you like, as long as it is Python. The new service lets you run your own web applications on Google’s infrastructure, freeing you from maintaining servers and giving you the benefits of Google’s scalability... ahem... as long as your apps are written in Python.

Will Google App Engine Support Java? Can it?

Random numbers

dgirard — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:09:00 +0200

Bold Lentil

Previous app engine fun resulted in a simple online randomish number generator. This is all well and good but this example didn’t make any use of the webapp framework and, really, don’t the users really deserve twice as many random numbers?

Google App Engine: Twice as Many Randomish Numbers with webapp Framework