[google-appengine] [off-topic] GAE got it right, but Wave?

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Badera
GAE went live to cheers from happy developers who could quickly tinker away at the new technology. Wave has certainly been hyped, but all the early enthusiasts seem to be angry/frustrated/resigned at this point due to lack of developer accounts and/or communication from the Wave team. How did GAE

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Badera
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Adam wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2:08 pm, mytemp wrote: > > > > So, if I had access to a rockstar Python/GAE person (or two)... at a > > reasonable price, I think I'd just go GAE. Anyone? > > I definitely agree with this. All other things being equal, I'd say > the Ap

[google-appengine] Re: Wanted: GAE/Python rockstar

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Badera
Is there a story, here, or just a random outburst? I've certainly been shopped on this list previously, had my time wasted and my expertise stolen by the likes of Twittertise & its 'creator' ... but you don't see me attacking everyone coming here looking for a developer. Thanks- - Andy Badera - an

[google-appengine] Re: simultaneous dynamic requests, max blob size, multi-blob?

2009-07-15 Thread Tony
I'm pretty sure #1 is correct. Of course, it's not a hard limit in the sense that the 31st request is dropped, rather it's queued, but yes it's unfortunate. On Jul 15, 10:33 pm, Jeff Enderwick wrote: > 1) I saw that 30 was listed somewhere as the max simultaneous dynamic > requests for an app.

[google-appengine] simultaneous dynamic requests, max blob size, multi-blob?

2009-07-15 Thread Jeff Enderwick
1) I saw that 30 was listed somewhere as the max simultaneous dynamic requests for an app. Is this really true? Even if I am paying, and I have a very popular app? I see the math indicating that one can retire 400/sec with 75ms latency, but I am sure that GOOG-internal apps aren't held to this lim

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread Adam
On Jul 15, 2:08 pm, mytemp wrote: > > So, if I had access to a rockstar Python/GAE person (or two)... at a > reasonable price, I think I'd just go GAE.  Anyone? I definitely agree with this. All other things being equal, I'd say the AppEngine is the better deal. From my experience here in the Bo

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread Adam
I was unaware that Azure's formal pricing model was announced and that it includes no free resources. From my stand-point, I consider that to weigh heavily in favor or AppEngine. With GAE, I can deploy low-bandwidth applications like my blog at no on-going cost at all. I'd be quite happy if it be

[google-appengine] task queue: admin-only URLs don't retry after HTTP error?

2009-07-15 Thread Dan
Hello, I need to make the task-queue worker URLs accessible only to the task queue, and not to people who happen to guess the URL but are not administrators. Unfortunately, the access restriction option appears to mess up the retry mechanism of the task queue. Base scenario: with no changes to my

[google-appengine] Re: Datastore Utility

2009-07-15 Thread djidjadji
You can a few of these things by integrating http://shell.appspot.com into your application 2009/7/15 JoeM : > > Hi All, > > Does anyone know of a datastore utility that can do the following > things: > > 1)  Run on a developers machine accessing the local datastore. > 2)  Test the integrity of a

[google-appengine] Re: sendmail InvalidSenderError

2009-07-15 Thread Tony
The FROM address must either be a.) the currently logged in user, or b.) a registered admin of the app. If you want to get around that limitation, you'll have to utilize a service external to GAE. On Jul 15, 6:02 pm, thebrianschott wrote: > Wooble, > > Thanx, I did not realize that sendmail > h

[google-appengine] No SMS support for my country

2009-07-15 Thread Andrés Mejía
Hello, I tried to create an application in the App Engine but couldn't verify my account since there's no SMS support for my country. Is there any other way of verifying my account? Thanks a lot. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are su

[google-appengine] Re: Wanted: GAE/Python rockstar

2009-07-15 Thread RockstarDev
It's pieces of sh*t like you who give this industry a bad name. All you want is a mule to abuse. Go away and find another industry to rape c*ck gobbler!! Shoo!! On Jul 15, 1:35 pm, mytemp wrote: > Looking for rockstar Python developers that are fast and can take an > idea (with some detail) to

[google-appengine] Quota changes keep on getting canceled by Google checkout

2009-07-15 Thread dplouffe
Hi all, I want to increase my quotas and do so from the Billing Settings section of the admin interface. I go through the Google Checkout process without any issues. When I check my inbox I get two emails, one confirming my new order and another one stating that my order has been canceled. The

[google-appengine] Re: sendmail InvalidSenderError

2009-07-15 Thread thebrianschott
Wooble, Thanx, I did not realize that sendmail has that limitation. Is there a workaround within the gae, or do I need to revise the instructions to my app to tell users that they will need to forward messages from within their gmail account? Brian --~--~-~--~~~---~--

[google-appengine] Re: Webservice authentication (Python)

2009-07-15 Thread Tony
I believe that the difference between urlfetch and urllib2 is superficial - App Engine makes all requests using urlfetch, regardless of which lib you use in your code. On Jul 15, 4:55 pm, epb wrote: > On Jul 15, 4:05 pm, Tony wrote: > > > The response has the "Set-cookie" header set, which will

[google-appengine] Re: Webservice authentication (Python)

2009-07-15 Thread epb
On Jul 15, 4:05 pm, Tony wrote: > The response has the "Set-cookie" header set, which will cause the > user's browser to save the cookie and then present it on the next > request (after redirected by the 302).  In my code I've opted not to > follow the redirect, and extracted the cookie myself, b

[google-appengine] Re: Webservice authentication (Python)

2009-07-15 Thread Tony
The response has the "Set-cookie" header set, which will cause the user's browser to save the cookie and then present it on the next request (after redirected by the 302). In my code I've opted not to follow the redirect, and extracted the cookie myself, because it's the urlfetch service doing th

[google-appengine] Re: Your application is exceeding a quota

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:03 PM, richard emberson wrote: > > Nick, > > Again, thank you for your response. > > Two Items > > First Item: > Is there some Java API to the short term quotas so the I can > write code that "knows" how fast to go and when to stop? > If not, are the upload short term rat

[google-appengine] Re: Webservice authentication (Python)

2009-07-15 Thread epb
I can see why Tony's version would work. His "algorithm" has two steps: 1. Get the authorization token using ClientLogin (which I also managed to do). 2. Use the uri "servername/_ah/login" to get the auth. cookie. The appengine_rpc module seems to do authentication in a similar way: A. Try to a

[google-appengine] Application Main Logs not working

2009-07-15 Thread richard emberson
When I send in a request that ought to log something at the INFO level, nothing shows up in the Log viewer. When I make some requests I get a 500 response code, internal server error, but nothing shows up in the Log viewer. So, I can not tell what the problem is. Richard -- Quis custodiet ipso

[google-appengine] Wanted: GAE/Python rockstar

2009-07-15 Thread mytemp
Looking for rockstar Python developers that are fast and can take an idea (with some detail) to something working very quickly, even better if they know how to make it pretty and do front-end work to so I don't need a designer right off the bat. Prefer experience with merchant account integration

[google-appengine] Re: Errors and quotas..

2009-07-15 Thread Tony
Yes. You pay for all CPU cycles used, and all requests count toward your request total. On Jul 15, 2:22 pm, bvelasquez wrote: > Hello, > > I'm curious if returning an error on a request still counts towards > your quota?  I have a request that is being made, which is not > authorized based on m

[google-appengine] Application Main Logs severity level

2009-07-15 Thread richard emberson
The severity levels in the log viewer are: DEBUG INFO WARNING ERROR CRITICAL The Java logger has levels: FINEST FINER FINE CONFIG INFO WARNING SEVERE What is the mapping between the two? Thanks Richard -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Y

[google-appengine] Re: Large Entity Database

2009-07-15 Thread Jeff S (Google)
Hi Danny, I think your design sounds good for the use case that you describe. If each item has one category, then this should be straightforward. Thank you, Jeff On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Danny ZI wrote: > > hello im trying to understand how to build a DB when i have one class > that

[google-appengine] Errors and quotas..

2009-07-15 Thread bvelasquez
Hello, I'm curious if returning an error on a request still counts towards your quota? I have a request that is being made, which is not authorized based on my sites security. I return an error immediately. However, does this request still count? Could someone basically make repeated requests

[google-appengine] Re: Move sub-app to new appspot instance?

2009-07-15 Thread Tony
Ultimately the question the TOS is asking is: "are multiple appspot apps being used to circumvent quotas/limits?" It would seem to me that a facebook-clone app like you describe would see considerable savings by splitting into multiple apps (because of the free quota allotted to each app), which

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread mytemp
Ah, thanks, wanted to make sure that wasn't SPAM, I am looking for Python/GAE expertise, I'll post another message then. Azure pricing was announced yesterday and causing me to rethink doing Azure, I have access to a rockstar .NET programmer at a reasonable price, so I was on the fence as I prefe

[google-appengine] Re: Your application is exceeding a quota

2009-07-15 Thread richard emberson
Nick, Again, thank you for your response. Two Items First Item: Is there some Java API to the short term quotas so the I can write code that "knows" how fast to go and when to stop? If not, are the upload short term rate limits published somewhere? Are they based on number of requests (which I

[google-appengine] Move sub-app to new appspot instance?

2009-07-15 Thread echeek
In my GAE development, I'm wondering if an offshoot sub-application of my main application merits being an appspot instance of its own. The new sub-application is related but doesn't share any data with the primary app and could be used by other parties. Would moving this sub- app to its own appsp

[google-appengine] Re: Your application is exceeding a quota

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:14 PM, richard emberson wrote: > > Nick, > > Thank you for the response. > > I have tens of thousands of records to load. If I load them > all at once or "rate-limit" the load, wont I run out of the > short term quotas just the same? Or did you mean that I > ought to "rat

[google-appengine] Re: Eating one's own dog food

2009-07-15 Thread richard emberson
I understand that BigTable is behind GAE, but my concern is more with GAE performance and quotas. If GAE had existed when Larry and Sergey were developing their pagerack algorithm, would they have used GEA for evaluation? I have my doubts. They would quickly reach quota limits, way before they kne

[google-appengine] Re: Your application is exceeding a quota

2009-07-15 Thread richard emberson
Nick, Thank you for the response. I have tens of thousands of records to load. If I load them all at once or "rate-limit" the load, wont I run out of the short term quotas just the same? Or did you mean that I ought to "rate-limit" my load over a number of days or weeks? I am trying to determin

[google-appengine] Re: Webservice authentication (Python)

2009-07-15 Thread epb
Thanks for your answers. As I understand Nick's response, I only need to use appengine_rpc.py for the entire process. I tried the following: --- def passwdFunc(): return ('my_email','my_passwd') rpcServer = appengine_rpc.HttpRpcServer ('myapp.appspot.com',passwdFunc,None,'myAppName') b

[google-appengine] Re: Eating one's own dog food

2009-07-15 Thread Tony
Though I realize this is not exactly what you're asking, the concept of GAE is that it exposes some of the infrastructure that all Google applications rely on (i.e. Datastore) for others to use. So, in a sense, Google's various applications were using App Engine before App Engine existed. As far

[google-appengine] Clustering the data and Indices

2009-07-15 Thread Mark Jones
I'm expecting lots of incoming data (about 80-90 million rows per day) that needs to be broken across many "accounts" and will largely be retrieved as a group on the account. I'm wanting to understand how to set up my entities and entity groups so that the indexes are clustered around account in

[google-appengine] Eating one's own dog food

2009-07-15 Thread richard emberson
Eating one's own dog food http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_one's_own_dog_food or in this case: Using one's own cloud. Amazon' cloud is based upon the IT technology they use within Amazon. Salesforce.com's Force.com offering is what they used to build their CRM system. These cloud vendors "Eat

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread John
I second Adam's idea regarding Azure vs AppEngine. It comes down to C#/ ASP.NET vs Python/Java. What skills/developers do you have access to. If you have both a good Python and C#/ASP.NETdeveloper, I would probably go for GAE/Python because of Python's innate benefits such as being able to have mor

[google-appengine] Re: uploadingdata with a no gmail account

2009-07-15 Thread Vincent
Thanks a lot ! it s work Vincent On 15 juil, 16:05, "Nick Johnson (Google)" wrote: > Did you make sure to log out of App Engine before accepting the invite > in your gmail account? You need to make sure you log in using the > gmail account to accept the invite. > > -Nick Johnson > > > > On Wed,

[google-appengine] Re: Webservice authentication (Python)

2009-07-15 Thread Tony
Since I happened to have this up, here's a bit of sample code to get an authentication cookie for an appspot app... from google.appengine.api import urlfetch from urllib import urlencode email = request.POST['username'] passwd = request.POST['password'] serv_root = "http://myapp.appspot.com"; tar

[google-appengine] Re: Fetch with limit returning more results than limit

2009-07-15 Thread Ben
That worked, thank you Ian! On Jul 15, 1:24 am, Ian Lewis wrote: > Ben, > > It looks like filter will add a filter to the existing query object (instead > of creating a new query object like django does) but the fetch method will > retrieve the objects and return them immediately without modifyi

[google-appengine] Doing Appengine settings programmatically

2009-07-15 Thread vijay
HI All,I am writing an application in Java which will create a website for my users using some custom fields. I want that the website built and this application will be deployed on App Engine. Assuming that My user trust my application and I can have their username and password enterd to my applica

[google-appengine] Re: SMS activation from Uruguay

2009-07-15 Thread Ricardo Zuasti
Nick, thanks a lot, I'll try it right away. rgds, ricardo On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Nick Johnson (Google) wrote: > > Hi Ricardo, > > I've activated your account. > > -Nick Johnson > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:59 PM, ricardoz wrote: >> >> Nick, hi. I did just that entering "+59899xx"

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Badera
Actually Azure team announced commercial availability and pricing yesterday. I don't believe production software, or any storage, will have a free quota any longer: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/07/14/confirming-commercial-availability-and-announcing-business-model.aspx# Thanks-

[google-appengine] Re: uploadingdata with a no gmail account

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Did you make sure to log out of App Engine before accepting the invite in your gmail account? You need to make sure you log in using the gmail account to accept the invite. -Nick Johnson On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Vincent wrote: > > I have a gmail account vlouviaux who is not linked with m

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread Adam
And the second part of your question: Azure vs. GAE. I'm not aware of any formal white papers that exist on this subject; although, I'll wager cash money that Microsoft has a couple in the pipeline somewhere. I work with both. I earn my salary being a happy trilobite in the Microsoft ecosystem, so

[google-appengine] Re: uploadingdata with a no gmail account

2009-07-15 Thread Vincent
I have a gmail account vlouviaux who is not linked with my google acount vinc...@domain I add it as developer , I received well the email in the box vlouvi...@gmail.com Then when I log in with my gmail account in appengine, I don't see the application And when I log with my @DOMAIN account the d

[google-appengine] Re: Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread Adam
I'd say that your best bet for finding developers who are able to work on AppEngine applications is by posting a message right here in this group as well as in the google-appengine-python group. I do AppEngine consulting, and a couple of clients have found me here already. I'm sure that I'm not th

[google-appengine] Re: Calculate CPU hours

2009-07-15 Thread Adam
The CPU usage is request-driven; if your application is not actively processing a request, it uses no CPU at all. It is essentially impossible to estimate how much CPU your application will use without gathering empirical data, so build your application, deploy it to AppEngine and run a request. Y

[google-appengine] Re: sendmail InvalidSenderError

2009-07-15 Thread Wooble
On Jul 14, 8:17 pm, thebrianschott wrote: > Regarding #1: > I am storing it in the datastore because I want the logged-in user > user to be able to opt for a different email address -- only one, not > more. So isn't it Ok to use the datastore for that. It's impossible for the application to se

[google-appengine] Re: SMS activation from Uruguay

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Ricardo, I've activated your account. -Nick Johnson On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:59 PM, ricardoz wrote: > > Nick, hi. I did just that entering "+59899xx" (with the x as the > actual numbers of course) but I get then "Mobile Number or Username" > error. The number is correct and the country

[google-appengine] Re: How to setup my data layout

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Mark Jones wrote: > > I know I'm going to have LOTS of small data records from LOTS of > people.  I want to get this right so I don't have to fix it later. > Basically, my plan was to have it structured like this: > > Account/Year/Month/Day/Item > > What I haven't

[google-appengine] Re: Google Apps preimium account SMS verification problem

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Joseph, I've activated your account. -Nick Johnson On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Joseph Lam wrote: > > I'm getting this error "The phone number has been sent too many > messages or has already been used to confirm an account" > > I've used my phone number for another free Google account b

[google-appengine] Re: Problem with "Verify Your Account by SMS"

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Thiago, I've activated your account. -Nick Johnson On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Thiago wrote: > > Hi, > I am also having problems with SMS account verification. I keep > getting "Mobile Number or Username" error. > I'm from Sydney, Australia. I type +61 and mobile number (no area code >

[google-appengine] Re: Webservice authentication (Python)

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:03 PM, epb wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to make my Python program talk to a web service hosted on > app engine. I am using the appengine-rest-server and authentication > using a Google account is required on the server. The idea is that the > user specifies his username

[google-appengine] Re: Optimal tree structure with datastore

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Peter Cicman wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > no, level and position are not identical. > > The idea behind it is to use level for node to know how deep in tree > it exists, so root nodes have level=0, node with one parent have > level=1, node with three parents (A-B-C-D) h

[google-appengine] Re: Create additional applications

2009-07-15 Thread John
phtq, This happens to me too. When I am logged in to appengine.google.com/a/google_apps_domain.com, I can access the dashboard etc but I can't create a new application (I would run into the same problem). This is what I do to create apps: Sign-out from dashboard, you will be redirected; on that p

[google-appengine] Re: Need Index Count Reset by Google

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Devel63, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Devel63 wrote: > > Can someone at Google please reset the index count for judysapps-qa? Done. -Nick Johnson > > Separately, I no longer appear able to successfully upload new > versions.  appcfg.py reports success, but the files being served are >

[google-appengine] Re: uploadingdata with a no gmail account

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Vincent, In situations like this, you need to create a gmail account, and add it as an administrator of your app. Then, use its credentials to do bulk up/down- loading. -Nick Johnson On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Vincent wrote: > > Hi > > I am still trying to download data from my app fol

[google-appengine] Calculate CPU hours

2009-07-15 Thread Rodion
Hi, i want to calculate the cpu hours my application uses. the basic functionality of the application is the following: it receives messages and has to store the content :) i haven't implemented the application yet, so I can not test how much cpu is needed.. the size of the received data is appro

[google-appengine] Datastore Utility

2009-07-15 Thread JoeM
Hi All, Does anyone know of a datastore utility that can do the following things: 1) Run on a developers machine accessing the local datastore. 2) Test the integrity of a .datastore file. 3) Present the schema of the .datastore file. 4) Allow interactive queries from a command line or GUI in

[google-appengine] Re: how fast is google app engine

2009-07-15 Thread mytemp
I still think it's valuable to better understand how a compute hour at a certain price compares to running it on alternatives... do you have the same data for AWS, Azure, or any physical/co-location data? On Jul 14, 5:30 pm, Tim Hoffman wrote: > > Have you ever wondered how fast Google app engin

[google-appengine] Need input: developers and Azure VS GAE

2009-07-15 Thread mytemp
Hi, What's the best mechanism (or resource) to find rockstar GoogleAppEngine/Python developers working on contract for an hourly rate? Also, has anyone done a good analysis of Azure vs GAE? I've already eliminated AWS as I don't want to manage VM instances/management/ scaling nor OS images/soft

[google-appengine] uploadingdata with a no gmail account

2009-07-15 Thread Vincent
Hi I am still trying to download data from my app following this tutorial http://code.google.com/intl/fr/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html But the auth always failed, I thinks it s because my Google account has no gmail account. Also to see my application console I need to go on

[google-appengine] Re: remote_api ->ImportError: No module named models

2009-07-15 Thread Vincent
ok it s working Thanks Vincent export PYTHONPATH=~/google_appengine/myapp On 15 juil, 10:18, "Nick Johnson (Google)" wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > See the solution you quoted - you need to make sure PYTHONPATH > includes the path to your app. > > -Nick Johnson > > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:48

[google-appengine] Re: Application Updates but Does Not Serve New Files?

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Devel63, We need to know what files you're serving that appear to be old, and what they should be serving. My money is on a client-side caching issue, but it's impossible to tell without more details. -Nick Johnson On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Devel63 wrote: > > Today I am suddenly unab

[google-appengine] Re: Create additional applications

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi phtq, What account are you signing in with? Is it the one you're using to post to this group? -Nick Johnson On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, phtq wrote: > > Hello Nick, > > No change. I did get an email with the subject "Welcome to an early > look at Google App Engine for Java!", but when I

[google-appengine] Re: Your application is exceeding a quota

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Richard, You're running into short term quotas, which are designed to prevent you exhausting your entire quota for the day in one go. You need to rate-limit your bulk loading code, and/or pay for additional quota. Even enabling billing without setting a high limit will increase your short term

[google-appengine] Re: remote_api ->ImportError: No module named models

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Vincent, See the solution you quoted - you need to make sure PYTHONPATH includes the path to your app. -Nick Johnson On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Vincent wrote: > > I have also the trouble but under linux > no models module found > > ImportError: No module named models > > any idea ? > >

[google-appengine] Re: Problems with SMS, and replying to messages in group

2009-07-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi udisanet, I've activated your account. -Nick Johnson On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:51 PM, udisanet wrote: > > Hi, > > In Chile there is no support for sending sms, is there an alternative > way to activate my account? > > thank you very much > Alex > > > On Jul 14, 6:27 am, "Nick Johnson (Googl