Re: [google-appengine] cloud hosting

I take it back. From the recent spate of similar questions, I'm guessing that some students are trying to get us to take their exams for them. You realize this counts as cheating, right? Jeff On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > This guy has all the makings of a Dilbert ca

Re: [google-appengine] RequestError: Server responded with: 500, A temporary internal problem has occurred. Try again later.

only the error i posted above. its not a temporary error either, as it has been happening for 5 days now. error from log below: RequestError: Server responded with: 500, A temporary internal problem has occurred. Try again later. This seems to happen when saving a user profile with the use pro

Re: [google-appengine] RequestError: Server responded with: 500, A temporary internal problem has occurred. Try again later.

just wrote a simple test script which also throws the error: class Test(webapp.RequestHandler): def get(self): client = gdata.contacts.client.ContactsClient(DOMAIN) client.client_login(USERNAME, PASSWORD, 'appogee testing') uri = client.GetFeedUri(kind='profiles', proje

[google-appengine] Good way to implement Labels

This has been asked a couple of times before but I haven't seen a definite answer to it. What's the best way to build labels similar to gmail on the Appengine? It would be similar to the way Labels work in Gmail. 1. Label will have many posts belonging to it 2. Posts will have many labels 3. One

[google-appengine] Re: GAE/J mail goes into Junk folder of Yahoo and Hotmail

I migrated to Amazon SES and it's working great. However, I would definitely prefer to use GAE for my entire platform. Hopefully this is addressed, maybe by adding dkim. On Apr 14, 12:53 am, Ioannis Cherouvim wrote: > I just moved to postmarkapp and the problems are gone. > Maybe I'll re-evalua

Re: [google-appengine] Good way to implement Labels

Store the labels in a StringList http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/typesandpropertyclasses.html#StringListProperty Running queries to find entities with a particular value (label) in a list is easy http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queries.html I am alm

[google-appengine] Chrome PDF Viewer and GAE

Has anyone noticed strange behavior with displaying pdf files in Chrome PDF viewer plugin that are located on GAE ? On local development GAE it works as it used to be (I get pdf in new tab), but on production GAE it starts to download pdf file instead to open it in new tab. I have checked and

Re: [google-appengine] Chrome PDF Viewer and GAE

It looks like production GAE is sending different header "attachment". I believe you should be able to overwrite that header. On 14 April 2011 14:26, Matija wrote: > Has anyone noticed strange behavior with displaying pdf files in Chrome PDF > viewer plugin that are located on GAE ? > > On local

Re: [google-appengine] Chrome PDF Viewer and GAE

Check for header: Content-Disposition: attachment; On 14 April 2011 14:35, Andrius A wrote: > It looks like production GAE is sending different header "attachment". I > believe you should be able to overwrite that header. > > > On 14 April 2011 14:26, Matija wrote: > >> Has anyone noticed stran

[google-appengine] Re: Channel API broken in Chrome Extensions

Hi, Ronald. I'm looking into this today, will try to get back to you later on with some more information. Is this only happening with Chrome extensions? Which channel of Chrome are you running - dev, beta or main? Thanks! -Moishe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

[google-appengine] Re: Text files bulk upload : any advice ?

Thank you for reading Robert. What I need on AppEngine side : * for each small : read their headers, they have some metadata going into db.Model properties, along with the file content. * send some of the files to clients, not all the files, in text format. Making a zip before upload is fine, but

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Text files bulk upload : any advice ?

http://www.tareandshare.com/2008/09/28/Zip-Google-App-Engine-GAE/ 2011/4/14 davidgm > Thank you for reading Robert. > > What I need on AppEngine side : > * for each small : read their headers, they have some metadata going > into db.Model properties, along with the file content. > * send some of

Re: [google-appengine] Chrome PDF Viewer and GAE

Yes, it is related with Content-Disposition. I have added to our dynamic pdf request handler inline content-disposition and now pdf is opened in new tab in chrome pdf viewer. resp.addHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=racun.pdf"); But now question is how to do this for static fi

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Problem with built in indices and lists of properties

And also, i limit the number of results (for ex when implementing pagination)... Does that affect the success of the query ? 2011/4/14 Andrei Cosmin Fifiiţă : > I don't want to create custom indices cause they will fail... but does the > order of the equality filters matter? > > On Apr 14, 2011 3

Re: [google-appengine] Good way to implement Labels

@barryhunter Thank you so much for your reply. I would need to often apply a particular label to say a thousand posts. Would you still suggest I go with this approach and may be run a map reduce to update the 1000 records? It would be frequently done by all the users, would that be ok? -N -

[google-appengine] Re: Channel API broken in Chrome Extensions

Hi Moishe, I am using the stable release, and the current up-to-date version is 10.0.648.204 (on a Mac). I only use the Channel API within a chrome extension, so I can't say if there's a problem in other cases. -Ronald. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Text files bulk upload : any advice ?

Hi, Both Python and Java have supported libraries for decompressing zip files. Once you've decompressed the files you could process them in a variety of ways, for instance by writing them to the blobstore or creating datastore entities. Robert On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 22:50, davidgm wrote

[google-appengine] Re: Channel API broken in Chrome Extensions

I have the same problem here, trying to use an App Engine Channel from a Chrome extension fails to trigger onmessage/onopen/onerror. Nothing happens, and there's nothing in the extension background page console log. It worked fine a few days ago, and I haven't changed any extension code in that tim

[google-appengine] channel api multiple connect to the same channel

hi, is it possible to connect multiple clients to the same channel and send an 'updates message' to all of the connected clients with a single channel.send_message() call? i would like to avoid to keep track of how many clients connect and i need to send messages only from the app to the client

[google-appengine] Help a Newbie and earn Karma

I am new to App Engine, new to Python, and new to programming. :) Unfortunately, I don't know what I don't know, so this question will be more vague than I would like. I made some changes to my app, which seem to work fine locally, but when I try to run it on appspot, I am getting the following

[google-appengine] Re: Problem with built in indices and lists of properties

Hi Robert, Thanks for your answer. If the number of results returned by each filter individually is smaller than, let's say 1000, the "final" number of results will be returned correctly? I want to know if there are some known limits for this type of query on a single list property (maybe for the s

[google-appengine] Re: channel api multiple connect to the same channel

Hi, I believe that the polling only happens in the local development environment - on the Production servers, it uses the persistent connection. Cheers, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send em

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Problem with built in indices and lists of properties

Hi Alexander, I'm sorry to disagree with Robert, but the zig zag merge-join doesn't return the various rows for each index back to the application code to combine them in the application. It's a difficult algorithm to explain in an email but basically the problem looks to be that with the 9 ent

Re: [google-appengine] channel api multiple connect to the same channel

Hi Andreas, The Channel API doesn't currently have a broadcast feature. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/channel/overview.html#Caveats Simon is correct about the polling, that's only on the dev server. Robert On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 00:20, andreas schmid wrote: > hi,

Re: [google-appengine] Good way to implement Labels

Last time I checked, the current map-reduce implementation doesn't support queries -- so you'd have to map over all of your data adding labels to the entities that match. I would rather use tasks + cursors personally. If you have a query to get the list of posts just use 'chained' tasks that pass

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Problem with built in indices and lists of properties

Hi Stephen, Yeah, I didn't explain very that clearly at all; I think you did a significantly better job: "you have too few overlapping entities in the two sets." That is exactly what I was trying to say. ;) For those interested, the merge-join algorithm is explained here: http://sites.g

Re: [google-appengine] AppEngine IPs in SpamHaus

> On another note: does the world really need more URL shorteners? Like it needs http://www.urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/ (and yes it works, but yes its satirical, from the guy behind "Get Your War On") -- T -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [google-appengine] cloud hosting

I really hope that this question isn't part of an exam or course. It is so horribly vague and unanswerable. I would hate to think there are students taking a course at some online technical school where the professor understands the subject matter as poorly as the students. I totally agree wit

[google-appengine] Re: Ecommerce

approximately 7.2:tangerine. -- 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@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.co

[google-appengine] Error: Server Error

Error: Server ErrorThe server encountered an error and could not complete your request. If the problem persists, please report your problem and mention this error message and the query that caused it. -- You received this message because you ar

Re: [google-appengine] Error: Server Error

Not to useful as to what is going on. Were you working with an app? Were you updating an app? What were you doing when this occured? *Brian Davenport* On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 14:31, Willemijn Mestebeld < w.mesteb...@wegenermedia.nl> wrote: > Error: Server ErrorThe server encountered an error a

[google-appengine] Re: Problem with built in indices and lists of properties

In this presentation, http://dl.google.com/io/2009/pres/W_0415_Building_Scalable_Complex_App_Engines.pdf, at slide 53, google say that "to many overlapping values = lots of zig - zagging" I test my app with queries with individual results (9, <500) and I didn't receive "Datastore need index

[google-appengine] get_serving_url

When i saw that google had added a high latency image serving service to app engine i was very excited. I recall tho that to use it in the production server you have to have billing enabled - is this still true or have google now allowed this service in the free quota service for start-ups. Of co

[google-appengine] Re: Ecommerce

hahaha On Apr 14, 9:07 pm, Calvin wrote: > approximately 7.2:tangerine. -- 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@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[google-appengine] Re: get_serving_url

Hi, As far as I can you only need to have billing enabled for the Blobstore portion of the images API - you won't necessarily be charged anything since you get a free quota to burn through first. Cheers, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goog

[google-appengine] Re: Text files bulk upload : any advice ?

Hi there, this might be helpful. I've recently developed a file uploaded for an crowd source application I'm involved in and have used a DiskFileItemFactory. Once you create a factory object you can set the size of the files that are to be uploaded. Bt default it's 10K but you cN manually set this

Re: [google-appengine] AppEngine IPs in SpamHaus

> On another note: does the world really need more URL shorteners? Google seems to think so ;) On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Tim wrote: > >> On another note: does the world really need more URL shorteners? > > Like it needs http://www.urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/ (and yes it > works, b

[google-appengine] Re: Unable to retrieve entities with OpenID User objects, need a workaround

Another question, is there any way to "peak" into the corrupted entity? I know the ids from a query but I would like to have the data before I delete it. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:30 PM, pjesi wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that it is not possible to associate an entity to a User > instance if the use

[google-appengine] Re: Help a Newbie and earn Karma

I don't know if it's the problem because I have currently no time to test your code but check how many times that FOR inside a FOR inside a FOR executes =) (use logging.info('loop!') or something like that and check the code is not asking for a lot of memory). In production, and only in producti

Re: [google-appengine] Good way to implement Labels

If you're only updating 1,000 posts and you have all the ids in advance, a single batch put() will probably perform more than adequately. Jeff On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Robert Kluin wrote: > Last time I checked, the current map-reduce implementation doesn't > support queries -- so you'd

[google-appengine] Re: Channel API broken in Chrome Extensions

Okay, I've identified and fixed the problem, and am working on getting a fix rolled out to production. No ETA on that yet. In the meantime if you'd like a patched jsapi file that you can serve statically from your own site, contact me directly at moishel at google.com. -- You received this messa

Re: RE: [google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine

@Brandon Your post is the closest to how real VCs think...I guess you aren't an engineer after all :) What are you doing trolling this forum? lol -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to goo

[google-appengine] Re: Channel API broken in Chrome Extensions

Moishe, Glad to hear it and thanks for the quick follow-up. I'll send you an email shortly for the static file. I wonder, is it generally possible/wise to use a static file in order to ensure predictable reliability? I.e. as with jquery served from the Google Libraries API, I can get the versi

[google-appengine] 500 Server Error on the Google side

Hello, Requesting page http://apps.facebook.com/betnet-prealpha/ I have met the following message: Error: Server Error The server encountered an error and could not complete your request. If the problem persists, please report your problem and m

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine

[I accidentally sent this as a private reply, reposting now publicly] On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:00 PM, saidimu apale wrote: > Aren't you strengthening the argument that GAE gets in the way of execution > by its beta/uncertain nature and its innumerable gotchas (which is what I > think some are co

[google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine

[a repost of my private reply to Jeff Schnitzer's just-reposted private response] -- Forwarded message -- From: saidimu apale Date: Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine To: Jeff Schnitzer Not sure if you meant th

[google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine

Interesting that VMWare launches CloudFoundry http://cloudfoundry.com/ right in the midst of this vigorous discussion on GAE and the cloud. It remains to be seen what their impact will be, but I wonder if in a few years' time GAE will rue the missed chances. Only time will tell. saidimu -- You

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine

Jeff, A lot of your points I had already put in to a business plan that I just worked on heading to VCs. Basically written as "fixed cost of growth, and no overhead during slump, or plateau". Writing a business plan where you don't have to do weird math about the cost per computational unit,

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine

I won't argue that there aren't still significant bugs in appengine - I had two of those issues starred already myself. But I wouldn't call them showstoppers. Even the outgoing email service, which I consider just barely functional (see http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=96

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine

I prefer the GAE approach of obfuscation. I write code, I don't optimize the OS. (not me personally but as a company) that has a lot of advantages of a VM solution where if you have to test your own performance changes based on the stack the drivers, and such. I want it to be like my old commodo

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine

I'm totally interested in hearing how it goes. Honestly, despite being part of the SF startup community I've kept myself pretty isolated from the VC world. The idea of getting technology mandates from a VC strikes me as not so different from a chef getting preparation instructions from the guy wh

Re: [google-appengine] Thanks for increasing Free Quota, Google!

There was an error where we accidentally increased quotas globally. Things are back to normal, nothing to see here. (Insert link to "nothing to see here" meme) Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine

Re: [google-appengine] Thanks for increasing Free Quota, Google!

Shoulda pitched it as a present. ;) -- 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@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googleg

[google-appengine] 500 Server Error

For the last 5 hours I have been getting nothing but Server Errors when I try to access either of my two apps. Since they are homework assignments for my programming class I would love if anyone had any advice as to how to fix this? Thanks in advance -- You received this message because you ar

Re: [google-appengine] RequestError: Server responded with: 500, A temporary internal problem has occurred. Try again later.

That might be an error on the other end of things. You might check for updated gdata libs and/or try to get a bit more debugging info into the logs. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 18:09, Gwyn Howell wrote: > just wrote a simple test script which also throws the error: > class Test(webapp.RequestH

RE: [google-appengine] Thanks for increasing Free Quota, Google!

Yeah it wasn’t long lived enough for me to Pitch Microsoft on why they needed to host all of bing on my free appengine account… From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appengine@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ikai Lan (Google) Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 4:38 PM To: Googl

Re: [google-appengine] Good way to implement Labels

@Robert thanks for the headup on map reduce. If it doesn't support queries then I would need to think of something else because I would have the ids I need to work on. @Jeff So, a batch put would essentially overwrite the existing entities in the datastore and that wouldn't count as an update?

[google-appengine] Re: Issue Parsing incoming mail from Hotmail is Back!!

Google is there a status on this? I understand some code that was posted on the forums a while back was verified working is now verified broke. I am not able to process hotmail e-mails and a yahoo broke too. some exception in java On Mar 31, 12:11 pm, nacho wrote: > I followed instructions from

[google-appengine] Re: Issue Parsing incoming mail from Hotmail is Back!!

c/some/same exception truncated quoted printable data On Apr 14, 8:49 pm, John Wheeler wrote: > Google is there a status on this? I understand some code that was > posted on the forums a while back was verified working is now verified > broke. I am not able to process hotmail e-mails and a yahoo

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Issue Parsing incoming mail from Hotmail is Back!!

Hi John, This isn't really an issue with App Engine, so far as I'm aware - it's an issue with the format of the data hotmail is sending you, and with the intolerance of the parsing library for errors. You need to either: 1) Demonstrate it's a problem with App Engine truncating the data (I'm fairl

[google-appengine] Re: Issue Parsing incoming mail from Hotmail is Back!!

Hi Nick. I'm just using the JavaMail API as prescribed in the documentation (and also following some code your engineers confirmed working w/yahoo&hotmail earlier). I'm not surprised with the source of the problem, but Hotmail is still a pretty big player in the e-mail space, so you guys might cons

[google-appengine] app engine performance

hello I am currently developing an ecommerce solution on App engine. I have to prepare a report n d performance parameters of the app engine and show dem why to choose appengine over d normal 3 tier web architecture kindly help me and provide me with the statistics of how app engine is reliable,

[google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine

On Apr 14, 3:44 pm, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > The idea of getting technology mandates > from a VC strikes me as not so different from a chef getting > preparation instructions from the guy who drives the SYSCO truck. Well said. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

RE: [google-appengine] Re: Startup Weekend and Google App Engine

To be fair... It's more like the partner in the restaurant saying, you have to use Canola oil, instead of Peanut Oil because we think there is less risk. So your fries won't taste as good, we're fronting the money, so you do it our way. -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegr