[google-appengine] Re: server time zone: datetime.utcnow() or now()?

2008-09-02 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Hi Ryan, On 2 Sep., 00:44, ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi waldemar! as mentioned in the docs, both the SDK and the production environment always use UTC: Thanks! I've read that part in the documentation, but didn't understand it. For example, it says: If the datetime value has a tzinfo

[google-appengine] Cname

2008-09-02 Thread amshuhu
i have a doubt , i develope an application named as asterixmobiles could i cname it as www.asterixmobiles.com whether it is possible --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to

[google-appengine] 404 Server Not Found Error?

2008-09-02 Thread Gregor Hochmuth
Hello, I've set-up an external domain for my GAE app (www.linktea.com) and followed all the steps to create the proper CNAME records (for www and other subdomains) as well as the naked DNS A record for http://linktea.com/ (as described on

[google-appengine] Re: Problem with Data Viewer

2008-09-02 Thread Sylvain
Did you check the logs ? Now it is written in them On 1 sep, 23:49, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting the message A server error has occurred every time I click on Data Viewer. Help, pls. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[google-appengine] Re: Random entity from datastore.

2008-09-02 Thread Merlos
Maybe you should try playing with the offset param in fetch() MyData.all().fetch(1,random_offset) Just remember the fetch limit is 1k. On Sep 2, 11:31 am, Alexander Kojevnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want to ask is ,how random the get() method is ? i.e. MyData.all().get() will

[google-appengine] Re: Re-post: dev_appserver mangling app handler name

2008-09-02 Thread Wooble
This is another bug in how GAE handles Windows filenames. Due to the filesystem with \ separators, the \b at the start of blueprints is being interpreted as a string escape for the backspace character. The immediate solution is avoid any fle/directory names that start with a,b,f,n,N,r,t,u,U,v,

[google-appengine] Re: Cname

2008-09-02 Thread Stefan Wagner
could i cname it as www.asterixmobiles.com whether it is possible http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=91080 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to

[google-appengine] Issues in the issue tracker should be updated (status)

2008-09-02 Thread Sylvain
Currently, there are 685 issues and most of them (and old) are still in the Defect / New status. I'd like to see the status updated - Accepted, Refused, Duplicated,... even those with 1 star Thank you Regards --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[google-appengine] 24 hours with 403 Over Quota and I cannot know the reason

2008-09-02 Thread Mariano Benitez
As many, I started uploading things in the data store and I started receiving the 403 Over Quota response. the app is http://regalatufoto.appspot.com/ I realized I should be using memcache instead of querying the datastore directly, and I fixed it. But now it's been a day (20 hours) and I

[google-appengine] Re: Need help with Appengine helper.

2008-09-02 Thread tcs 241
Hello, I met same problems before. 1.datastore error is because it is the first time run your app without any data input yet.once there is some data in your datastore that msg will be gone. 2.PIL module error. what I did is google, download and install it. Actually, they won't affect your app

[google-appengine] i have a google app engine account but not sure if i can start posting code to it

2008-09-02 Thread davidj411
i signed up for a Google app engine account. when i signed up, it said that google app engine was limited at this point and it asked me if i wanted to be notified when it became available. i consented to get an email when it is ready. it has been about 2 weeks and i am looking for a way to find

[google-appengine] Re: Need help with Appengine helper.

2008-09-02 Thread Ethan Post
This got me going. http://thomas.broxrost.com/2008/04/08/django-on-google-app-engine/ On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get django and app engine working together. I'm a novice with both, so maybe I'm missing something. I'm running on Windows

[google-appengine] Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread Fred
Hi, I'm developing a google maps app, hosted on GAE, for which I've developed a custom tile overlay, consisting of thousands of png images, at about 4 - 8k each in size. I've tried uploading about 15mb worth of tiles (just over 3,500 tiles), and have hit the 1000 file limit. (Detailed in issue

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread Brian Clapper
On 9/2/08 11:29 AM, Fred wrote: Hi, I'm developing a google maps app, hosted on GAE, for which I've developed a custom tile overlay, consisting of thousands of png images, at about 4 - 8k each in size. I've tried uploading about 15mb worth of tiles (just over 3,500 tiles), and have hit the

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread Fred
but An app can read files, but only files uploaded with the application code from http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html So should the zip file would be imported into the datastore? On Sep 2, 4:37 pm, Brian Clapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/2/08 11:29 AM, Fred

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread Brian Clapper
On 9/2/08 11:45 AM, Fred wrote: but An app can read files, but only files uploaded with the application code from http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html So should the zip file would be imported into the datastore? Your first paragraph should give you the answer.

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread Tim Hoffman
why aren't you storing your tiles as entities in the store rather than as files? T On Sep 2, 11:29 pm, Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm developing a google maps app, hosted on GAE, for which I've developed a custom tile overlay, consisting of thousands of png images, at about 4 - 8k

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread Fred
OK, thanks Brian. Final question - any pointers for reading from zip files on the fly? On Sep 2, 5:02 pm, Brian Clapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/2/08 11:45 AM, Fred wrote: but An app can read files, but only files uploaded with the application code

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread Fred
Tim: why aren't you storing your tiles as entities in the store rather than as files? I was concerned about CPU quotas - each tile request would hit the datastore. On Sep 2, 5:03 pm, Tim Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why aren't you storing your tiles as entities in the store rather than

[google-appengine] libxml2

2008-09-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am having difficulty importing libxml2 into my test project running on the development appserver. type 'exceptions.ImportError': No module named libxml2 args = ('No module named libxml2',) message = 'No module named libxml2' I get no problems when I put the same import statement in

[google-appengine] Re: newbie doubt:TemplateDoesNotExist in live

2008-09-02 Thread v4vijayakumar
On Aug 30, 10:27 pm, v4vijayakumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I just can't wait to see my app online, any quick help would be great. :) ... Finally I made it. :-) last (?!) bug was, div ...space/div element.innerHTML returns space in firefox, and empty-string in explorer. good grief!

[google-appengine] Re: libxml2

2008-09-02 Thread Raffaele Sena
libxml2 is a native (C code) library so it will not work in GAE. The dev appserver may be doing tricks to disable libraries that will not work in the real appserver. You should be using one of the all-python XML parsers (minidom or whatever) if you want to make sure your app works once uploaded.

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread bFlood
1) put them in the datastore and memcache the mostly commonly used (like the tiles at the startup level) 2) set client side cache headers for the tiles if they don't change often 3) use alternative storage like Amazon S3 personally, i would not try the datastore method first. I have not seen an

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread Fred
Hi Brian, personally, i would not try the datastore method first. I have not seen an issue yet with storing tiles as blobs do you mean you *would* try the datastore method first? How many tiles are you typically storing in the datastore? On Sep 2, 5:42 pm, bFlood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1)

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread Brian Clapper
On 9/2/08 12:06 PM, Fred wrote: OK, thanks Brian. Final question - any pointers for reading from zip files on the fly? See the standard Python zipfile module. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-zipfile.html Brian Clapper, http://www.clapper.org/bmc/ Variables won't. Constants aren't.

[google-appengine] Re: Google Checkout Integration

2008-09-02 Thread Wooble
Partially. The Checkout Notification API requires a secure connection, and GAE doesn't have HTTPS support at the moment. If you don't need your application to get order notifications, you can probably use the rest of Google Checkout, but I imagine an e-commerce application that can't get order

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread bFlood
whoops, little typo: I would not try should be I would try. there's no limit on the number of blobs you can store but you will hit the storage quota in the preview. I have thousands in there right now for testing purposes It might be cheaper to store them on Amazon S3 but I have not worked out

[google-appengine] Re: Error logs disappeared

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff S (Google)
The missing logs issue was related to a temporary switch in servers, and your old logs should be back now. Please let me know if they are still missing. Happy coding, Jeff On Aug 29, 11:15 am, martian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our app has been running since pretty soon after the original pre-

[google-appengine] Re: Question about log message: Transaction collision for entity group

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff S (Google)
Hi lein, When there is a collision on a write to the datastore, the transaction is retried automatically. This is part of the reason why collisions can be so expensive and should be avoided :-) Several of the videos on App Engine from Google I/O contain some advice and best practices for

[google-appengine] Re: recent spike in megabytes stored dashboard entry

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff S (Google)
Hi Noah and Thomas, The changes in your megabytes-stored numbers are related to the scheduled maintenance which we performed last week. We're currently looking into the issue, but it shouldn't present a problem for your apps since they are using a small amount of storage quota. Happy coding,

[google-appengine] Re: Google maps custom tile hosting on GAE

2008-09-02 Thread Fred
Thanks all, the verdict then is to try the datastore first. The tiles will be refreshed on a regular basis (probably every 24 hours) using an application outside the GAE, so the reliability and speed of the bulk uploader will be an important factor. The last time I tried the bulk uploader I found

[google-appengine] Re: 24 hours with 403 Over Quota and I cannot know the reason

2008-09-02 Thread Mariano Benitez
exactly 24 hours later, I got my service back, but I still don't know which quouta was exceeded. MAriano On Sep 1, 8:45 pm, Mariano Benitez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As many, I started uploading things in the data store and I started receiving the 403 Over Quota response. the app

[google-appengine] Re: Need help with Appengine helper.

2008-09-02 Thread Peter
Hmm. A couple of extra lines of documentation would have been very helpful. I'm not used to ignoring warnings and errors. Thanks for the info. After a bit of a test it does indeed seem to work regardless of warnings. The datastore seems to be empty at each startup which could be a bit

[google-appengine] Re: The only way I know of to find my posts is to click on one of my existing posts

2008-09-02 Thread Peter
Actually my profile page doesn't mention my posts at all. At least, not the one I get to when I click the profile button at top right. The one I get to when I click view profile from a discussion does have it, which is why I posted this thing in the 1st place. The search by email does the

[google-appengine] Re: Need help with Appengine helper.

2008-09-02 Thread Noah Gift
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. A couple of extra lines of documentation would have been very helpful. I'm not used to ignoring warnings and errors. Thanks for the info. After a bit of a test it does indeed seem to work regardless of warnings. The

[google-appengine] Re: Best Template Engine (14 votes)

2008-09-02 Thread Davide Rognoni
:-D Django template system (10) Mako (3) Genshi (3) PyOoHtml (2) Airspeed (2) Pyxer Templating (1) Tenjin (1) Evoque (1) Spyce (1) :-) On Sep 2, 1:34 am, Jorge Vargas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please stop sending this emails, they add little knowledge to the group. There is no best, it

[google-appengine] Versioning

2008-09-02 Thread Ross M Karchner
Has anyone out there implemented (or tried to implement) a model with versioning? By which I mean, changes to an entity (or particular properties) are tracked over time. The most common example I can think of is most wiki's, like this:

[google-appengine] Can't Manage App After Creating

2008-09-02 Thread Jeremy Banks
Whenever I attempt to log in to the management dashboards for the application I've created, I get met with the message that I've been added to the waiting list. Since I've already created an application, it's obvious that I'm not on the waiting list. I tried again, new account and new

[google-appengine] Best location for module 'import' statements -- implications for load time caching

2008-09-02 Thread Kyle Jensen
Where should 'import' statements be located? Ie. 1) at the top of the file, or 2) in a function that requires the particular module? If its #2 -- what are the implications for import caching on GAE? (This is somewhat related to my other post:

[google-appengine] Configuring sendmail to 'just work' for dev environment in windows

2008-09-02 Thread Francis
Any chance anyone can give a little play by play of how to get mail sending working with the dev server, in windows, with my ISP SMTP server? I'm travelling, and even at home I don't have an SMTP server to configure this stuff for - seems like I should be able to set up the dev server to use

[google-appengine] Re: Configuring sendmail to 'just work' for dev environment in windows

2008-09-02 Thread Francis
Ok - I think I got this all working - trick is to use stunnel to make it so you can use Google's smtp server, which requires an SSL connection. props to http://www.projectpier.org/node/817 for the related guide I got this working from. 1. Install stunnel from http://www.stunnel.org/download/