[google-appengine] vijayp on migration of partychat from GAE to EC2/GAE-hybrid; from $20/day expense to < $1/day

2011-12-18 Thread Adrian Scott
http://www.vijayp.ca/blog/?p=162 Interesting data... -A -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ <-- Create a Facebook or Google App Engine app in a minute without installing anything -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Doom day

2011-12-03 Thread Adrian Scott
ave created a nice little incentive to the google team, and also better relationships with developers after all that has gone on recently. We're doing a bit of optimization as we go along, but putting a hefty priority on improving functionality and ease of use over just minimizing expense. -

Re: [google-appengine] Re: What is the better way to deal with static images/icons? Blobstore or ?

2011-11-29 Thread Adrian Scott
-- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ <-- Create a Facebook or Google App Engine app in a minute without installing anything On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Max wrote: > If they are all static files not not supposed to be changed then deploy > with your ap

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Google App Engine's Team Dishonesty

2011-11-19 Thread Adrian Scott
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Re: [google-appengine] URGENT: google checkout for usage i dont know where it comes from.

2011-11-15 Thread Adrian Scott
ov 15, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Adrian Scott wrote: > Also, we should be able to turn off current/future billing even if > Google's system is in the process of charging a new card. I submitted an > updated credit card yesterday for a payment that didn't go through, but it > will not l

Re: [google-appengine] URGENT: google checkout for usage i dont know where it comes from.

2011-11-15 Thread Adrian Scott
I'm being billed against my will. An extra $0.30 one-time fee is not a big deal to me, but it would be good to get that interface fixed. The current situation must violate some law too, imho. Hope this helps, -A -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ <--

Re: [google-appengine] Re: What happened to the promised reliability improvement for email delivery?

2011-11-12 Thread Adrian Scott
ng any further significant resources and possibly relabel that api as beta/experimental or at least as not destined to receive lots of attention right away, to be up front about it. It's a non-trivial, high-nuisance service to provide/maintain. -A -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http:/

Re: [google-appengine] Image upload

2011-11-12 Thread Adrian Scott
r ""Adrian Remembers Me - Django". The upload image code is used to store a person's profile photo. You can customize from there. (After you create your first project, you'll have these Starting Content options in the second project.) Hope this helps -- enjoy, -A -- Adrian S

Re: [google-appengine] Twitter Library

2011-11-10 Thread Adrian Scott
t; To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- Adrian S

Re: [google-appengine] Create a Facebook App on GAE in a minute, new release from CoderBuddy

2011-11-09 Thread Adrian Scott
e safe-for-work? =) > yah... you figured us out! ;) we had that fun title in there at first, but in combo with the photo we put in, it seemed a bit too much ;) -a -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ <-- Create a Facebook or Google App Engine app

Re: [google-appengine] zipped packages and .pyc

2011-11-08 Thread Adrian Scott
No, best to take those out. -A -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ <-- Create a Google App Engine app in a minute without installing anything On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:02 AM, andreas schmid wrote: > hi, > > if i have some packages as .zip

[google-appengine] Create a Facebook App on GAE in a minute, new release from CoderBuddy

2011-11-08 Thread Adrian Scott
tarter app like this yourself -- because we now have a Copy Project feature (which we used for this). I'd been meaning to develop some Facebook Apps for a while, and this is a quick way to get started and then iterate it into your own idea... Thanks, -A -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO

Re: [google-appengine] Re: New Pricing is now in place!

2011-11-07 Thread Adrian Scott
Thanks, that'd be great. Just updated my billing settings but felt like i was flying blind ;). -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ <-- Create a Google App Engine app in a minute without installing anything On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM,

Re: [google-appengine] Idle instances and pending latency management advice

2011-11-07 Thread Adrian Scott
I dropped ours from 3 to 2 minimum idle instances, and saw significant drop in daily cost. 7-9 user requests per minute shouldn't be too much of a hit (depending on how much time is used to serve them and the background tasks they spawn of course)... -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Fo

Re: [google-appengine] Re: I have to leave App Engine platform, feeling really bad and sad

2011-11-03 Thread Adrian Scott
I share your concern, Thomas... It is also worth comparing the performance of an early stage (#1 in your list) non-optimized app at low volumes on an AWS box versus on GAE (e.g. pageload time)... something to think about, no? -A -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http

Re: [google-appengine] Re: DKIM support and gmail -- now it's urgent!

2011-06-29 Thread Adrian Scott
. -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, JH wrote: > I'll agree that sometimes it's hard to understand priorities, say for > instance XMPP in general, or yes, prospective search. > All that aside, I'd encoura

Re: [google-appengine] Mass mailing: task queue vs BCC field

2011-06-25 Thread Adrian Scott
com > > -- > 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...@

Re: [google-appengine] Re: When the ssl on custom domain feature will be added?

2011-06-24 Thread Adrian Scott
I was hoping we'd see this on the Pricing page as a sign of imminent release ;) [ http://www.google.com/enterprise/appengine/appengine_pricing.html ] We'd be willing to part with significant cash for this feature in any form... -A -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder Coder

Re: [google-appengine] Google APPs Engine projects with team work

2011-06-23 Thread Adrian Scott
best directly to me, off-list :). -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Branko Vukelic wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Adrian Scott > wrote: > > updated most recently and by whom. We don'

Re: [google-appengine] Google APPs Engine projects with team work

2011-06-23 Thread Adrian Scott
am is developing a different part of the project that can work pretty well with our existing set-up. I hope this option helps -- feel free to drop me a note with any questions, feature requests, etc. -Adrian -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ On Thu, Jun 23, 2011

Re: [google-appengine] Re: CoderBuddy invite -- Web-based development and publishing apps & static sites to App Engine

2011-06-22 Thread Adrian Scott
uff! :D > > Thanks and enjoy! > > > Albert > > On Jun 23, 6:35 am, Adrian Scott wrote: > > Hi, We've been working on making a tool to help make it easier and faster > to > > develop for App Engine -- it's called CoderBuddy. People can create, > edit

[google-appengine] CoderBuddy invite -- Web-based development and publishing apps & static sites to App Engine

2011-06-22 Thread Adrian Scott
eetups, as we've been testing it out in those environments and experiencing some nice successes. We have a few extra little features we can enable for folks who'd like to use it in those contexts. Additionally, we'd welcome hearing from folks who'd like us to provide Java and/or Go support

[google-appengine] Hiring - Jobs : Python, Google App Engine, Silicon Valley-style startup, remote work is fine

2010-03-26 Thread Adrian Scott . com
Hi!! We're Hiring Developers (we are very open to remote team members): Project: Something disruptive that will change the way software is developed. Tech: We are developing with Python, Google App Engine and Django. Team background: Founding investor, Napster; pioneer in social networking (fr

[google-appengine] Google Analytics support team can't access my GAE app ;)

2009-07-22 Thread Adrian Scott . com
Having a pretty hilarious experience here. Trying to get my lost google analytics account recovered for a site now running on google app engine. I put in the analytics reset code url they wanted for verification / validation, but the support rep says he can't load that url or even my home page.

[google-appengine] Re: Charging for you app.

2009-03-20 Thread Adrian Scott . com
YES! On Mar 20, 9:04 am, Big Stu wrote: > I'm not absolutely sure myself (I haven't read the terms yet either), > but from some of the previous questions/answers I've seen on here it > sounds like you're good to go. > > Good luck! > > Stu > > On Mar 19, 10:38 am, Ronn Ross wrote: > > > > > If I

[google-appengine] Re: Downside of the Google App Engine relying on Google Apps - Horror Story

2009-03-20 Thread Adrian Scott . com
Thanks for posting about this Eaden. This is extremely useful info. I am not clear on why we should have to rely on Google Apps for domain pointing. We also need some capability for redundancy of some sort. What is currently possible for redundancy, assuming something goes bad with google apps?

[google-appengine] Multilingual i18n -- django, any problems w/ it? roll your own?

2009-03-20 Thread Adrian Scott . com
Hi, i'm looking at doing i18n / multilingual for my apps. For those using Django, have you run into any problems w/ Django's approach? or any stuff that just seems weird etc? For others doing i18n / multilingual, what approaches have you been taking and what factors have influenced you or been

[google-appengine] Re: Sample based on non google accounts

2009-03-20 Thread Adrian Scott . com
i looked at django user authentication and was not very excited by it. so i created this: http://www.adrianremembersme.com/ i found the django user auth more oriented towards site content maintainers than building a app w/ significant membership (e.g. no remember me etc). (note that what i've

[google-appengine] Re: new Open source proj -- for login, remember me, security, usability functionality -- adrian remembers

2009-03-19 Thread Adrian Scott . com
Thanks for the question. It's built over an independent authentication system, so you have an independent user base from google, for enhanced portability, independence, etc. On Mar 18, 5:51 am, Luca wrote: > Is it built over the Google authentication API's or have you > reimplemented a thisapp

[google-appengine] basic login functionality; jump-start your next app quickly; 'adrian remembers me' upgrade 0.1.4 released

2009-03-18 Thread Adrian Scott . com
having fun in a variety of areas: - email validation, the rabbit hole gets deeper; put some initial validation in place, want to revisit later/soon for a better/more complete solution(s) - i think the 'remember me' cookie design is reasonably elegant, though could be worth sprucing up a littl

[google-appengine] new Open source proj -- for login, remember me, security, usability functionality -- adrian remembers

2009-03-16 Thread Adrian Scott . com
Get your app started very quickly with this free code... for membership capability http://www.adrianremembersme.com/ Version 0.1.1 currently offers basic login, remember me functionality ( + photo upload for profile ) Attempting to follow and encode best practices for cookies, security, etc.

[google-appengine] Re: how to stop local gae web dev server?

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Scott . com
Ah Thanks!! Forgot to RTM nice to have docs ;) -a On Feb 13, 10:39 am, Tony Smith wrote: > HeyAdrian, > > Killing the job is the only way documented on documentation > server:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/devserver.html > (To stop the web server: With Windows, press Con

[google-appengine] unicode username in cookie value

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Scott . com
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/3674ba3ddffe29a5/da79c3298fa4160a?lnk=gst&q=unicode# this is giving me plenty of fun when looking at storing a username in cookie values with special characters, e.g. adrián ;) see y'all in tomorrow's chat, -adrian www.adria

[google-appengine] app-engine-patch startup errors; help with getting started

2009-02-13 Thread Adrian Scott . com
trying manage.py runserver lots of startup errors including on .po files within locale 'msgfmt' is not recognized as an internal or external command also WARNING: root:Could not read datastore data from ... \django-aep- sample.datastore -- other thing: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/int

[google-appengine] how to stop local gae web dev server?

2009-02-13 Thread Adrian Scott . com
Hi, Is there any way to stop the local GAE web dev server, aside from killing the job? I'm on Windows using cmd.exe command window... Same goes for trying manage.py runserver for app-engine-patch django... thanks!! -Adrian http://www.adrianscott.com/ --~--~-~--~~~

[google-appengine] Re: IBM DB2 and App Engine

2009-02-12 Thread Adrian Scott . com
Hi! Sounds like you need some connection to your existing DB2 database on your own servers. I would expect you would need to make the connection from your google app engine web application through HTTP w/ SSL. So you could do it that way, but probably not over the standard DB2 networking, at lea