RE: [appengine-java] Book Recommendation

2010-04-01 Thread Steve Robillard
I have read every published book on GAE and this is by far the best, Programming Google App Engine hands down, JAVA or python. Having said that GAE is a very fast moving target and there has been much development since this book was published last year. This book along with the online docs will

[google-appengine] Re: X-AppEngine-Resource-Usage

2009-10-08 Thread Steve Robillard
Tom, Are you accessing your app as an administrator? HTH, Steve _ From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appeng...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tom Wu Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:33 PM To: google-appengine@googlegroups.com Subject: [google-appengine]

[google-appengine] Re: X-AppEngine-Resource-Usage

2009-10-08 Thread Steve Robillard
the system status and decide to upload data or not. It'll would wonderful if gae can show how many quota left for my app in http header. Best Regards Tom Wu 2009/10/9 Steve Robillard steverobill...@gmail.com Tom, Are you accessing your app as an administrator? HTH, Steve

[google-appengine] Re: PLEASE HELP ME FIGHT GOOGLE SPAM

2009-07-12 Thread Steve Robillard
Paul at the risk of continuing this rant of yours (which has been pointed out is directed at the wrong group). Your actions in emailing this group multiple times a day is exactly the behavior which you are complaining about. Perhaps you should find another more appropriate forum for your problem.

[google-appengine] Re: PLEASE HELP ME FIGHT GOOGLE SPAM

2009-07-10 Thread Steve Robillard
Paul, Perhaps you should look at your mail software for a solution. Most software allows you to block or mark a sender as spam, thus avoiding the need for you to waste your obviously valuable time dealing with it. Remember there is more than one way to skin Bugs Bunny. Steve -Original

[google-appengine] Re: GAE and Google Maps API Key

2009-06-08 Thread Steve Robillard
You may want to check the Google maps blog you no longer need an api key in version 3 of the api. -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appeng...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of herbie Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 4:47 PM To: Google App Engine Subject:

[google-appengine] Re: Manual Authentication

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Robillard
It might help to know why all the subterfuge what problem are you trying to solve? As a user I would be suspicious of any system that forwards me through a series of links and sends secret information. With all do respect it sounds like you are trying to proxy a limited resource or bypass a 3rd

[google-appengine] Re: Manual Authentication

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Robillard
. On Mar 25, 8:50 pm, Steve Robillard steverobill...@gmail.com wrote: It might help to know why all the subterfuge what problem are you trying to solve? As a user I would be suspicious of any system that forwards me through a series of links and sends secret information. With all do respect

[google-appengine] Re: Can Appengine provide Browser information..?

2009-03-15 Thread Steve Robillard
Try a Google search for browser detection or sniffing. Basically you need to check the request headers, but this is very difficult to get right 100% of the time for all browsers. -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appeng...@googlegroups.com] On

[google-appengine] Re: custom handle_exception -- where do I get the traceback?

2009-03-15 Thread Steve Robillard
The talk sounds interesting can you provide a link? -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appeng...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Savraj Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 4:26 PM To: Google App Engine Subject: [google-appengine] custom handle_exception --

[google-appengine] Re: custom handle_exception -- where do I get the traceback?

2009-03-15 Thread Steve Robillard
://sites.google.com/site/io/best-practices---building-a-production-quali ty-application-on-google-app-engine On Mar 15, 5:44 pm, Steve Robillard steverobill...@gmail.com wrote: The talk sounds interesting can you provide a link? -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com

[google-appengine] Questions about appengine as a CDN

2009-03-10 Thread Steve Robillard
operations were done from a single datacenter. 2) Assuming that #1 is true is their a way to seed these edge location caches before the first request? 3) The new quotas will allow serving a file of 10mb's but only allow serving 1 Gb of data per day. Thanks, For your help. Steve Robillard

[google-appengine] [google-appengine]

2009-03-08 Thread Steve Robillard
operations were done from a single datacenter. 2) Assuming that #1 is true is their a way to seed these edge location caches before the first request? 3) The new quotas will allow serving a file of 10mb's but only allow serving 1 Gb of data per day. Thanks, For your help. Steve Robillard

[google-appengine] Re: Get deployed app version at runtime?

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Robillard
J You can retrieve it using the method on this page http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html Near the bottom is the code needed HTH Steve -Original Message- From: google-appengine@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-appeng...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jarek Zgoda

[google-appengine] Re: a fundamental increase in App Engine transparency and locality is needed

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Robillard
them to fix it. This opaque cloud utility of compute stuff is a fantasy: some locality and transparency will be needed or App Engine will never be really for real. Steve Robillard CIO, SR-PS, Inc. 8 Elm Court East Haven, CT 06512 (203) 500-1027 www.sr-ps.com http://www.sr-ps.com

[google-appengine] Re: [CRITICAL] Datastore operations slow

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Robillard
+1 Alex. I think the email that just came through from the app team should have been posted to the home page and sent far earlier. Downtime and issues will always occur what separates one system from another is how they are handled and communicated. -Original Message- From: