Programming Google App Engine is a new book from O'Reilly, written by Google's Dan Sanderson. The App Engine, despite all its downtimes, is an interesting (Python/ Java based) environment with a focus on being scalable. And even if you already have a domain and server elsewhere, you could write the front-end on that server and have a JavaScript app on it communicate to a Python JSON API back-end over...
The dust has settled on the PDC 2009 and unlike previous events where I have tried to blog at the event, I decided this time around that it was just too hard to do and that a more considered review a few days after the event may work better. Here goes… I’m really only going to focus on the keynotes and a few sessions I found intriguing – I actually attended less sessions that I...
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This past week 15 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 20 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include GamePro , Goodreads , and Maponics . The most often used APIs this week are Google App Engine , Google Maps , and Twitter . Shopping (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Mapping (3 APIs, 9 mashups), and Search (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows...
If you are a product start-up building a web application here is some good advice from Programming Google App Engine: If you delay your launch to build big, you miss the opportunity to improve your product using feedback from your customers. Building big before allowing customers to use the product risks building something your customers [...]
Did you know Google has released more than 300 open source projects to date? Yesterday, we announced the latest addition to Google's open source projects - YouTube Direct , a new tool that enables any developer to solicit video submissions, moderate and display them on their website, all powered by YouTube. We recognize the role that open source plays at Google and how it helps us create better applications...
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Google today announced YouTube Direct, an open source platform that lets media organizations directly connect with YouTube users to request and rebroadcast their YouTube clips. The application allows custom YouTube uploaders to be built into another site, so users can submit their videos directly and track the viewing metrics in their own profile . Google highlights the...
Today we announced the launch of YouTube Direct , a new tool built on top of YouTube's public APIs that enables any developer to solicit video submissions on their website, powered by YouTube. Users upload their videos directly on the developer's website, after which the developer can review the submissions and select the best ones to showcase. Since these videos live on YouTube, users are able to...
Last week, we hosted the the final round of Google Code Jam 2009 , the sixth iteration of our annual global programming competition. From almost 23,000 registrants in the beginning, we winnowed down the contestants to the fastest and most fervent coders. On Friday, we brought the top 23 competitors to our Mountain View headquarters for four concentrated hours of thinking, testing and trouble-shooting....
A recent survey from Evans Data claims Python use has risen 45% since the spring of 2009! Mmmm. Kind of non-linear. The company correlates these results with the release of the Google App Engine cloud development platform. The App engine only supported Python when released in April of 2008, though it has recently come to support Java.
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Sure, Apple created the most popular and well-stocked mobile app store in the market, but does Apple provide a Web-based interface to it? No. Through Apple's official channels, you can only browse the store's contents in iTunes or on your iPhone/iPod Touch. There is an unofficial site hosted on Google App Engine which provides roughly the same experience Apple provides...
Evans Data Corp today announced that use of the Python scripting language has increased by 45 percent since Spring 2008 according to the most recent North American Development Survey to be released this week to subscribers.
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Background work with the deferred library – Google App Engine – Google Code – Library to simplify the App Engine task queue API. The value-add here is the ability to pass a function reference for background processing rather than manually handling all the overhead of task queue setup. Not that it was hard… but just [...]
Google closed source applications engine does evil From http://www.itwire.com, I come to know this news. Please read this post which is very informative. Google, the monolithic empire which once could do no wrong, has churned out another new product for its web 2.0+ conga line. This time Google App Engine gives the great promise of letting you serve your own applications to the world using the grunt
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