[google-appengine] Re: missing logs

2009-10-05 Thread neil souza
thanks nick, responses in line (hope they come through right, i don't really know how to use groups) On Sep 30, 2:57 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" wrote: > Hi Neil, > > Sorry for the delay responding. Responses inline. > > > > > > On Sat, Sep 26, 200

[google-appengine] Re: Sending mail

2009-09-26 Thread neil souza
oh man, sending emails is a pain. the process of doing it successfully is awkward, expensive and surprisingly opaque. here's what i recall, don't quote me on it... 1.) in order to have a chance-in-hell to getting email through, you need to send email from a 'whitelisted' email provider. the term

[google-appengine] missing logs

2009-09-26 Thread neil souza
the issue: it looks like we may not be getting all of our log entries when when pull the logs from app engine. first, a little context. there's a lot here, so bear with me. we need to record event lines for metrics. normally, we would write the lines to a local file on each app server and then p

[google-appengine] Re: the social network user id problem

2009-07-14 Thread neil souza
thanks, i'll go with that solution. On Jul 13, 4:13 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:11 AM, neil souza wrote: > > > hey nick - met you at I/O in may, foulplay media, social gaming and > > all that... still think you should get on

[google-appengine] Re: the social network user id problem

2009-07-10 Thread neil souza
ric key if possible (should be faster, avoid casting). can i do this? otherwise, as tmdk mentioned, i could use key_name and stick a letter in front of it, like 'L12345' for platform user id 12345. On Jul 10, 7:23 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10,

[google-appengine] the social network user id problem

2009-07-10 Thread neil souza
the problem: how to best structure the id system for a social network app on app engine. the run down: users access the app through a social network. they identify themselves to the app with a 'platform type id' (pl_type_id, enum) and 'platform user id' (pl_user_id, 64bit int) pair. examples:

[google-appengine] Re: how to manage app admin?

2009-07-02 Thread neil souza
that user otherwise.  You can even add a new admin and remove the > original admin. > > On Jul 2, 1:14 am, neil souza wrote: > > > > > i need to set up production apps. as is, it seems that apps are > > associated to one and only one *user* account. this is a problem

[google-appengine] how to manage app admin?

2009-07-02 Thread neil souza
i need to set up production apps. as is, it seems that apps are associated to one and only one *user* account. this is a problem because multiple users (developers) need to be able to admin an app (to deploy, fetch logs, view datastore, etc.). we also need our tracking system to be able to fetch