[google-appengine] Re: Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread Jon McAlister
Andrew and bFlood, I was wondering if either of you could talk more about how SSDS is like bigtable, or point me to some design docs. I would like to read more about this. On Oct 27, 10:37 pm, bFlood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as Andrew mentioned, Azure Storage and SSDS are very BigTable like.

[google-appengine] Re: Anchors to other pages.

2008-10-28 Thread Greg
Not quite sure what you're asking - do you want to make an image link to another page? If so just output the usual HTML... Cheers! Greg. On Oct 28, 6:57 am, Massimiliano Giovine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can i write an get hyperlink under an image with google app-engine? --~--~-

[google-appengine] AdSense and GAE Free Hosted Applications

2008-10-28 Thread Shay Ben Dov
I think it is Google interest to open AdSense to free applications, the pros: Get more developers to contribute applications - the best ones will float to top tier. Fend the future competition from MS Azure. It should be under different T & C but at least we get something and it gives us the in

[google-appengine] Re: AdSense and GAE Free Hosted Applications

2008-10-28 Thread Paul Kinlan
I didn't think there was anything on AdSense's or the app engines terms and condititions that stopped you from displaying adverts in your web apps Paul On 28 Oct 2008, at 07:15, Shay Ben Dov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it is Google interest to open AdSense to free applications,

[google-appengine] Re: Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread Andrew Badera
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512402.aspx --ab On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Jon McAlister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew and bFlood, I was wondering if either of you could talk more > about how SSDS is like bigtable, or point me to some design docs. I > would like to read

[google-appengine] Re: Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread Andrew Badera
The queuing is sweet -- something GAE definitely lacks, hasn't even roadmapped I don't believe. Long-running or scheduled tasks anyone? --ab On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like Azure's blobs/tables/queue, like AWS, to handle different sized > data. > > It

[google-appengine] Re: ListProperty

2008-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
json takes up less space, and also is a bit more portable. Some of the stuff I'm storing it could make sense to pull the json and have it read by javascript, bypassing parsing it with python altogether. On Oct 28, 2:28 am, Andy Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why simplejson instead of pickle

[google-appengine] Re: Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well.. a hack to handle scheduled tasks is coming from my gaeutilities project. If issue 809 is something that can be done sooner than Google coming up with a built in way to manage scheduled tasks, starring it would help. This would allow the full available request timeout length for a task to ru

[google-appengine] Re: About Static Files - Images

2008-10-28 Thread Alexander Kojevnikov
Could you post your app.yaml file? On Oct 28, 5:13 pm, R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > My directory hierarchy is ImageSearch/Images/addFavorites.jpg > ImageSearch being my root directory. > > All Images work fine and show up on localhost, when the same is > uploaded and run from the

[google-appengine] Re: Whoops, GAE Cookbook is broken.

2008-10-28 Thread ctran
OK. Thanks. On Oct 27, 12:37 pm, "Marzia Niccolai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not unsafe, but depending on the size/shape of your entity groups can > be unsightly and lead to very long URLs. > > -Marzia > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:35 AM, ctran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are you s

[google-appengine] Re: ListProperty

2008-10-28 Thread Andy Freeman
Sounds reasonable. Is it worth writing a JsonProperty analogous to the PickleProperty that I posted previously, possibly combined with the db.Model extension that I posted to provide additional db.ReferenceProperty features.? My PickleProperty looks like python data as far as my application is c

[google-appengine] Re: Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread Andy Freeman
The lack of XP support for the SDK makes Azure a non-starter. (I'm not going to set up/buy a vista system just to try it.) On Oct 27, 11:16 am, "Andrew Badera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, what's the GAE take on the MS Azure announcement at PDC today? > > Is it going to be competitive, or no

[google-appengine] Re: Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread Andrew Badera
What are you talking about, lack of XP support? The SDK is part of the Visual Studio/.NET platform, I've neither seen nor heard nor read anything about the SDKs being XP-only. That would make very little sense. Thanks- - Andy Badera - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (518) 641-1280 On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10

[google-appengine] very simple news mashup

2008-10-28 Thread marc puig
Hi all, after one month running successfully, today I submitted Current FM (http://current.fm) to the Application Gallery, and I also decided to make it public here. CurrentFM is a very very simple mashup that takes the twitter trends from Twitter and show related news by topic. It's been my fir

[google-appengine] Memcache exhaustion policy question

2008-10-28 Thread pr3d4t0r
Greetings. Is the cache exhaustion policy for Memcache defined somewhere? The documentation indicates that data are evicted due to memory exhaustion in the cache, but gives no specific volumes about how that works. Is the memory limit documented anywhere, or can you provide an insight? Thanks

[google-appengine] Re: ListProperty

2008-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Actually, I believe someone already wrote one and submitted it to the google code site. I just already had a working solution so didn't bother implementing it. I don't believe it includes all the features you mention, but would be a good starting point. On Oct 28, 10:46 am, Andy Freeman <[EMAIL P

[google-appengine] ListProperty and Indexes

2008-10-28 Thread Adam Blinkinsop
I've got a search application up (see http://beta.mtgcauldron.com/) that uses a ListProperty on each object as a list of stemmed words to search by. This works great for simple searches (http:// beta.mtgcauldron.com/search?q=white+2%2F2 and http://beta.mtgcauldron.com/search?q=black+enchantment r

[google-appengine] Help on Optimizing Search and Timeout issues

2008-10-28 Thread Venkatesh Rangarajan
Hello There, I am looking for ideas for optimizing "search" for my app (http://payrate.appspot.com). I have around 700K records as of now. There are two issues i am facing 1. TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable : I get hundreds of these per day. I cannot get a handle on what is cau

[google-appengine] Re: Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread iceanfire
I tried to download it and got the same error. It isn't compatible with xp. On Oct 28, 9:06 am, "Andrew Badera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are you talking about, lack of XP support? The SDK is part of the > Visual Studio/.NET platform, I've neither seen nor heard nor read anything > about

[google-appengine] Re: ListProperty and Indexes

2008-10-28 Thread Adam Blinkinsop
I attempted to get around this by using a GqlQuery with only where clauses of the form "index = :1 AND index = :2 AND ..." (yes, "index" is the name of my StringListProperty), and a single ORDER BY clause for "rating DESC", but I have the same problem with it wanting an index on [index, index, rat

[google-appengine] Recommended way with GQL to filter by range

2008-10-28 Thread sevenseeker
Given a bounding box of numbers (here using lat and long), how can I search within a range of the numbers since there can only be one inequality comparison per property? Here is the query that does not work. query = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM SpeakingOffer" "WHERE

[google-appengine] Re: Recommended way with GQL to filter by range

2008-10-28 Thread Peter Recore
I don't know the answer to the overall lat/long problem, but I do want to clarify one of your assumptions: "since there can only be one inequality comparison per property?" is not quite right. In fact, there can only be one *property* that is filtered using inequalities. see the section labeled

[google-appengine] Re: Recommended way with GQL to filter by range

2008-10-28 Thread Barry Hunter
How is "96.8 > 100" ever going to be true? ;p But anyway as pointed out you cant use inequality comparisons on more than one property, you can do bboxes in this way. The solution is you need to encode both properties (lat/long) into one property. For lat/long this is possible as you pretty much

[google-appengine] Re: Recommended way with GQL to filter by range

2008-10-28 Thread sevenseeker
On Oct 28, 1:34 pm, Peter Recore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know the answer to the overall lat/long problem, but I do want > to clarify one of your assumptions: > > "since there can only be one inequality comparison per property?" is > not quite right. > > In fact, there can only be one

[google-appengine] Re: Recommended way with GQL to filter by range

2008-10-28 Thread sevenseeker
> How is "96.8 > 100" ever going to be true? ;p I believe that was from testing... don't worry this is still in 3 dimensional space. :) > But anyway as pointed out you cant use inequality comparisons on more > than one property, you can do bboxes in this way. > > The solution is you need to enco

[google-appengine] Re: Implement AJAX in App Engine

2008-10-28 Thread Shay Ben Dov
Hi, The ajax implementation works on IE 6 when I access my application on the GAE and not on the dev_appserver.py probably timing problem on the dev pc whenever I was trying to run 2-3 different browsers on the same pc including IE. Thanks for the help from all of you. The application http://c

[google-appengine] Google app engine t-shirts

2008-10-28 Thread Matija
Is there any way for me to buy Google App Engine t-shirt and to be send to Croatia. Google checkout on www.googlestore.com doesn't allow shipment to Croatia, and www.google-store.com actually doesn't work at all (and has no app engine t-shirt). In a last 15 years I have bought many items around t

[google-appengine] Re: Tips on Optimizing Writes?

2008-10-28 Thread Jeff S
Hi Waldemar, On Oct 27, 4:29 pm, Waldemar Kornewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On 27 Okt., 19:34, Jeff S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How are we supposed to work with list properties if they kill our app > > > even with just a few entries? I thought that if 5000 index entries

[google-appengine] Will there ever be a DictProperty in datastore?

2008-10-28 Thread luismgz
Is there any reason for not having implemented a DictProperty in datastore? Are there plans to implement it? I believe it would be great to have native dictionaries in datastore, and that it would simplify a lot many development tasks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rece

[google-appengine] Re: Where to post problems with dev_appserver?

2008-10-28 Thread sketchor
Sorry for not responding to these sooner. > First, what is your full PYTHONPATH? What is the in the directory > helloworld.py, and are there any permissions issues with the files in the > directory (like not being set to readable by the dev_appserver)? C:\soft\python25\ Note: the python exe in

[google-appengine] Re: Retrieving Authenticated Google Data Feeds with Google App Engine - Source Code

2008-10-28 Thread Jeff S
Hi Jeff The code for the sample in the article is available in the google-app- engine-samples open source project. You can grab the source code here: http://code.google.com/p/google-app-engine-samples/source/checkout Based on the error you are seeing, I would guess that your app doesn't include

[google-appengine] Re: Use cases for Memcache using the client vs. the functions?

2008-10-28 Thread pr3d4t0r
On Oct 27, 9:11 am, "Dan Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The object interface is intended to be similar to the Python interface to > Danga Interactive's Memcache.  The equivalent functions are for convenience, > since the object doesn't need to maintain state, like a connection to a > part

[google-appengine] gdata calendar interface

2008-10-28 Thread Mike Metcalfe
Hi, I'm new to GAE and I've started building an accommodation booking app with gdata calendar. So far I have a BookingAgent, a Resource (a room) and a Booking. The Getting Started stuff commuicates with the calendar with simple methods but I would prefer to use interfaces. So I will make the Resou

[google-appengine] Re: Tips on Optimizing Writes?

2008-10-28 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Hi Jeff, On 28 Okt., 21:11, Jeff S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our queries and indices are rather simple. I should clarify: > > The particular problem I'm talking about is a view that currently has > > a response time of about 360ms and almost all of the time (280ms) is > > spent on datastore

[google-appengine] How smart is the datastore indexing?

2008-10-28 Thread MajorProgamming
I was wondering how the datastore updates indexes. For example, suppose I have an entity with 20 properties (with many implicit indexes), and I change only one of those properties and put() back the entity. Would the datastore know to only update the indexes which apply to that property, or would

[google-appengine] Re: Tips on Optimizing Writes?

2008-10-28 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
In order to further clarify the problem I've created two screenshots. The dashboard shows a warning sign: http://freenet-homepage.de/wkornewald/dashboard.jpg Strangely, the logs don't contain any warning messages for that URL. Still, if you expand an older log entry you can see a warning sign: h

[google-appengine] Happy Hour in San Francisco Tomorrow

2008-10-28 Thread Steve Kirkham
Are you located in the Bay Area? Want to meet App Engine developers and mingle with other local start-ups? Come join the Google App Engine team for happy hour at 21st Amendment in San Francisco. Date: Wednesday, October 29 Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Place: 21st Amendment, 563 2nd Street http://www

[google-appengine] Re: Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread Ross Ridge
Andrew Badera wrote: > Is it going to be competitive, or not even in the same ballpark? It seemed to be aimed at different group of people. Azure's main target looks to be enterprise applications that would've previously been hosted on private intranet servers. More an alternative to running a

[google-appengine] 500 Server Error

2008-10-28 Thread SurfChen
http://yubei.appspot.com/ I uploaded a new version,which added a new index.After uploading, 500 server error appear. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group,

[google-appengine] Re: 500 Server Error

2008-10-28 Thread David Symonds
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:29 PM, SurfChen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://yubei.appspot.com/ > > I uploaded a new version,which added a new index.After uploading, 500 > server error appear. Check your logs. It could be that the new index hasn't been built yet. Dave. --~--~-~--~--

[google-appengine] Re: 500 Server Error

2008-10-28 Thread SurfChen
On Oct 29, 8:36 am, "David Symonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:29 PM, SurfChen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >http://yubei.appspot.com/ > > > I uploaded a new version,which added a new index.After uploading, 500 > > server error appear. > > Check your logs. It could be

[google-appengine] SDK Datastore Viewer gives an error when some StringProperties are None

2008-10-28 Thread djidjadji
I have found an error in the SDK Datastore Viewer. I found the source of the error and fixed it. I created an issue for this bug. http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=815 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribe

[google-appengine] Re: DownloadError: ApplicationError: 2 ?

2008-10-28 Thread Noah
no idea, unfortunately. and now i have the same problem. if anyone has any help, i'm all ears!! On Oct 9, 3:45 pm, Jean-Lou Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the significance of "DownloadError: ApplicationError: 2" > errors? > > I got to " user_service_pb.py " but couldn't find any me

[google-appengine] Re: DownloadError: ApplicationError: 2 ?

2008-10-28 Thread kang
the remote server has blocked GAE On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > no idea, unfortunately. and now i have the same problem. if anyone > has any help, i'm all ears!! > > On Oct 9, 3:45 pm, Jean-Lou Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the significanc

[google-appengine] Re: Will there ever be a DictProperty in datastore?

2008-10-28 Thread Andy Freeman
I defined and posted a PickleProperty definition that supports dicts and all other pickleable datatypes. On Oct 28, 2:11 pm, luismgz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason for not having implemented a DictProperty in > datastore? > Are there plans to implement it? > I believe it would b

[google-appengine] Re: Will there ever be a DictProperty in datastore?

2008-10-28 Thread yejun
Dict is not indexable. On Oct 28, 5:11 pm, luismgz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason for not having implemented a DictProperty in > datastore? > Are there plans to implement it? > I believe it would be great to have native dictionaries in datastore, > and that it would simplify a l

[google-appengine] Re: Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread Andy Freeman
I didn't write "XP only" , I said "lack of XP support". The Azure SDK only supports Vista and Server 2008. It does not support XP. On Oct 28, 8:06 am, "Andrew Badera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are you talking about, lack of XP support? The SDK is part of the > Visual Studio/.NET platfor