[google-appengine] Re: Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it.

2008-10-03 Thread David Symonds
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Josh Heitzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* GAE can't not tell you how many total entities there are of a > specific type and it can't count more then 1000 entities. >* GAE limits the entities that can be processed in a single > transaction to those in the

[google-appengine] Re: Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it.

2008-10-03 Thread Josh Heitzman
>From near the bottom of http://codecrafter.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/light-web-strategy-game-data-model-smacks-into-gae-limitations/ : After some thought I decided my requirements for an enhanced GAE data model layer were: 1. Transactions spanning entity groups 2. [redacted - more of a nic

[google-appengine] Error when submitting an app for publication in the App Gallery

2008-10-03 Thread Downtown
Hi, I am receiving the following error message when I attempt to submit an application for the App Gallery: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/ __init__.py", line 501, in __call__ handler.post(*groups) File "/base/data/home/ap

[google-appengine] SDK 1.1.5 Released

2008-10-03 Thread Marce
Today is the release of the 1.1.5 SDK, which, as always, is available for download on our Google hosting project: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/downloads/list. The release notes (http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/ SdkReleaseNotes) contain all of the nitty gritty details. He

[google-appengine] Re: sdk

2008-10-03 Thread Alexander Kojevnikov
> how to download latest sdk version http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@g

[google-appengine] Re: Long key_name design question?

2008-10-03 Thread Tony Arkles
For a summary of the C-based modules that are available, check out http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/libraries.html On Oct 2, 6:14 pm, ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > unfortunately, app engine doesn't support native (ie C-based) python > modules: > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/py

[google-appengine] Re: GData Calendar 501 Error

2008-10-03 Thread Jeff S
Hi Elmore, I'm guessing that this 501 error will only occur when your code is running in the SDK. The Calendar service sometimes responds with a 302 redirect and the SDK's version of urlfetch retries the POST as a GET, which is why the Calendar server responds with "Not Implemented". On the App E

[google-appengine] Re: May I sign up an app engine?

2008-10-03 Thread Jeff S
Hi klaus, instructions can be found here in the FAQ: http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/sms.html#error On Oct 2, 5:51 am, klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm from Mainland China, I need to sign up an appengine account, > but seems China Mobile is not supported in the list. However, I saw

[google-appengine] Re: Timeout : how to get rid of timeouts ?

2008-10-03 Thread Jeff S
Hi Venkatesh, On Oct 1, 11:09 am, "Venkatesh Rangarajan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > Question 1 : I have an entity with 700K records. I am running search queries > on those and keep getting timeout error consistently. > Please advice on how I could avoid getting into these error

[google-appengine] GAE Obfuscator?

2008-10-03 Thread Davide Rognoni
Why Google can see my secret code? i.e. http://www.lysator.liu.se/~astrand/projects/pyobfuscate/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google

[google-appengine] Re: Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it.

2008-10-03 Thread Bill
Aral, your blog entry clearly outlines some major issues, so thanks for posting it. Here are my thoughts on the issues: 1) 1 MB limit It's a problem if python variables also have this limit. I was not aware of that. I have been using external resources (Scribd and Amazon S3) to store larger it

[google-appengine] search by categories

2008-10-03 Thread indra
Hi, I was wondering if there is any way we can implement 'search' for datastore entities (which can have multiple categories assigned to them) based on AND/OR restrictions on categories... Say i store blogs in my datastore and i let users assign categories to the blogs (many to many relation), li

[google-appengine] Re: Retrieving More than 1000 entities

2008-10-03 Thread Barry Hunter
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Aral Balkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is now a 1,000 limit on offsets (which was introduced without > any notice). FWIW, From the very beginning I understood it as only every having access to the first 1000 results (regardless of offset) This is mention

[google-appengine] Re: Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it.

2008-10-03 Thread davew
Hi Aral, Your "25% ready for primetime" certainly depends on what criteria you are basing your decisions on. I personally disagree, but my needs are possibly very different. My number one requirement is scalability. For that I give it two thumbs up, and for everything else I'm willing to adapt to

[google-appengine] Re: Any Site in Production Use ?

2008-10-03 Thread Feris Thia
Hi Bill, Thanks for the sharing, for the puts I have tested myself using single thread and it get cpu over quota easily. So I think it is not ready for production yet. Indeed, wordle is very popular (page rank 7). I'd take a look at how they handle datastore, or do you have any further info for th

[google-appengine] Re: No Cell Phone

2008-10-03 Thread Anson Lichtfuss
How will I know? On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:57 AM, fedekun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just fill it and they will activate your account in some hours/days > > 2008/10/3 AEL21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> So do I just wait now? Do the reply? what happens now?(sorry, I am >> totally clules about thi

[google-appengine] Re: No Cell Phone

2008-10-03 Thread fedekun
They will email you 2008/10/3 Anson Lichtfuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How will I know? > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:57 AM, fedekun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just fill it and they will activate your account in some hours/days >> >> 2008/10/3 AEL21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> >>> So do I just

[google-appengine] Re: Retrieving More than 1000 entities

2008-10-03 Thread Aral Balkan
There is now a 1,000 limit on offsets (which was introduced without any notice). Effectively, your only option is to do what José recommends. The docs must be updated to reflect this limit and the fact that everyone is basically forced to keep manual numeric keys until either sortable keys are i

[google-appengine] Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it.

2008-10-03 Thread Aral Balkan
I just wrote up a blog post summarizing the biggest issues I have with App Engine: http://aralbalkan.com/1504 If you are developing real-world/commercial apps with App Engine, please add your thoughts to the discussion. Thanks, Aral --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You recei

[google-appengine] Re: Any Site in Production Use ?

2008-10-03 Thread davew
I run BuddyPoke, so let me chime in. BuddyPoke is an OpenSocial application that runs on Orkut, hi5, MySpace, netlog, friendster and will soon be live on Ning. We have 17 million users, most of which has come in the last two and half months. I use App Engine to store user state in the App Engine

[google-appengine] Re: Python Support

2008-10-03 Thread kv
On Oct 2, 10:06 pm, Wooble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 2, 2:53 pm, Sal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Will GAE be supporting Python versions 2.6 and/or 3.0? > > There's been no timeline posted for 2.6 support (or, really, for much > of anything), but personally I'd expect to see it somet

[google-appengine] Re: Anyone getting a 403 - "Query similar to bot" message ?

2008-10-03 Thread Anders
Yes, I just got a 403 error. Could it be because a page continuously makes (Ajax) calls to the server? On Oct 3, 7:52 pm, Pratham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been gettting this 403 error while trying to access my site > -http://sorry.google.com/sorry/?continue=http://pective.com/ > > I've

[google-appengine] Re: How to get ReferenceProperty's key without causing a 'get'

2008-10-03 Thread Mahmoud
Awesome. Thanks dude. On Oct 2, 6:40 pm, Rafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >   Folks, > >   There have been a number of people asking on the forums what the > correct way to get the key of a ReferenceProperty without causing a > whole 'get' to the datastore.  This can be especially inefficient if >

[google-appengine] Re: Is there are notion of *HOSTING* a virtual machine on AppEngine

2008-10-03 Thread Barry Hunter
I think thats the very essence of AppEngine, that its not like this. It's designed to scale automatically - transparently to the developer. I things should work exactly the same if its running on one 'instance' or 20 thousend. mangaging seperate 'instances', bringing up more, taking them down som

[google-appengine] Anyone getting a 403 - "Query similar to bot" message ?

2008-10-03 Thread Pratham
I've been gettting this 403 error while trying to access my site - http://sorry.google.com/sorry/?continue=http://pective.com/ I've got this a few times while using Google search, but the first time on an Appengine hosted site ? Anyone else encountered this ? --~--~-~--~~---

[google-appengine] Re: ProtocolBufferDecodeError

2008-10-03 Thread Marzia Niccolai
Hi, This error indicates that the response you are pulling from the datastore is too large. If you query for fewer results, you will not get this error. -Marzia On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Oliver Zeigermann < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get the exception at exactly the same line while

[google-appengine] Re: No Cell Phone

2008-10-03 Thread fedekun
http://appengine.google.com/waitlist/sms_issues That one 2008/10/3 AEL21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > which form? there are several there. > > On Oct 3, 10:31 am, fedekun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes there is.http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/sms.html#errorFill that > > form > > > > 2008/10/3

[google-appengine] Is there are notion of *HOSTING* a virtual machine on AppEngine

2008-10-03 Thread cearl
There was a posting asking whether App Engine is a VM... I'm curious to know whether AppEngine...or any other google service for that matter, supports a paradigm like Amazon EC2, in which users structure an environment (e.g. I want these four apps running a particular server) and then then spawn i

[google-appengine] Announcing gae2django - a helper to port App Engine applications to Django

2008-10-03 Thread Andi Albrecht
I'm pleased to announce a Django helper application that ease the process of porting App Engine applications to pure Django. The "gae2django" helper application provides a Django based implementation of the App Engine APIs and it's aim is to minimize the effort of porting your App Engine applicat

[google-appengine] Re: No Cell Phone

2008-10-03 Thread fedekun
Just fill it and they will activate your account in some hours/days 2008/10/3 AEL21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So do I just wait now? Do the reply? what happens now?(sorry, I am > totally clules about this stuff) > > AEL21 > > On Oct 3, 11:11 am, fedekun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://appengi

[google-appengine] Re: No Cell Phone

2008-10-03 Thread AEL21
So do I just wait now? Do the reply? what happens now?(sorry, I am totally clules about this stuff) AEL21 On Oct 3, 11:11 am, fedekun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://appengine.google.com/waitlist/sms_issuesThat one > > 2008/10/3 AEL21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > which form? there are s

[google-appengine] Re: No Cell Phone

2008-10-03 Thread AEL21
which form? there are several there. On Oct 3, 10:31 am, fedekun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes there is.http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/sms.html#errorFill that > form > > 2008/10/3 David Symonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM, AEL21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[google-appengine] Re: No Cell Phone

2008-10-03 Thread fedekun
Yes there is. http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/sms.html#error Fill that form 2008/10/3 David Symonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:17 AM, AEL21 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I get this to work without entering a phone number? I don't > > have a cell phone so I'm

[google-appengine] Re: Using Picasa with Appengine

2008-10-03 Thread Charlie
You could use the Picassa APIs to display and select images for a post. Users would have to authenticate your app. You would use urlfetch to interact with Picassa. http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/developers_guide_protocol.html On Oct 2, 10:57 am, Justin Van Winkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

[google-appengine] Re: High CPU warnings on simple PUT with implicit references.

2008-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The model is super simple; at this point, the only field that's being indexed is the "region", which is a normalized/tokenized version of the latitude/longitude pair. Best, Ben On Oct 2, 2:39 pm, uprise78 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about your model?  What 'shape' is it?  Do you have any s

[google-appengine] Re: Using ReferenceProperty is very(!) slow

2008-10-03 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
On Oct 3, 12:08 am, Rafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >   Waldemar, > >   It is not necessary to have a separate Property type for accessing a > model key without loading it from the datastore.  You can instead: > >     class MyModel(db.Model): >       my_reference = db.ReferenceProperty() > >     .

[google-appengine] Re: Any Site in Production Use ?

2008-10-03 Thread Alexandru Zbarcea
i don't know, images are sure from aws: "http://buddypoke.s3.amazonaws.com/images/install_orkut.jpg"; but app itself, i don't know ... and I don't think it matters :-D On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > nope ... it seems is using AWS now! > > I met BuddyPok

[google-appengine] Article About Our AppEngine Setup (with SVN commit-hook script)

2008-10-03 Thread Koen Bok
Hey all, I wrote a little article about our experiences with AppEngine hosting. We have a pretty nice setup where a commit automatically uploads the newest version of your site to AppEngine with the revision number as the version. I included the scripts for anyone who might be interested. http:/

[google-appengine] Re: Retrieving More than 1000 entities

2008-10-03 Thread José Oliver Segura
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Venkatesh Rangarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Theo, > > that will not work. It will aways get the same 1000..and the only thing > offset does is get 1 to 100 or 100 to 200. > > Tony : Well, i have a simple search > http://payrate.appspot.com/infosys_salary > > T