[google-appengine] Re: dynamic image creation on app engine python

2013-06-26 Thread timh
You can use full PIL now. On Thursday, June 27, 2013 6:07:12 AM UTC+8, Pumplerod wrote: > > > I'm trying to dynamically create and display images in the browser using > app engine. It doesn't seem that the "images" module will do all I need as > I am changing color on a pixel by pixel basis.

[google-appengine] Re: ndb Query using parent?

2013-06-25 Thread timh
Use an ancestor query https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/ndb/queries#ancestor On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:48:42 AM UTC+8, Pumplerod wrote: > > put another way... > > If I have a list "members" which are all of class ItemIndex, can I search > through and pull out just the ones

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine VM-based Backends - Trusted Tester Sign-up

2013-06-21 Thread timh
Thats pretty cool. Just looked at the SQlite example for backend VM on python. It raises an obvious question, what app server runtime are you running on the vm backend to support a deployed python app. Is it the new dev_appserver or something else ? What sort of concurrency does it support ?

[google-appengine] Re: Safety of using threading.currentThread on GoogleAppEngine (Python)

2013-06-17 Thread timh
also fixes the concurrency > problem. > > But surely if Python can't tell when an alien thread gets joined, then the > variables used in threading.local will never go out of scope and get > garbage collected? Which leads to a memory leak, like before? > > On Saturday, June

[google-appengine] Re: Safety of using threading.currentThread on GoogleAppEngine (Python)

2013-06-14 Thread timh
Why do you need to call currentThread() to create thread local storage? You can just create threadlocal storage. On Friday, June 14, 2013 8:15:25 PM UTC+8, bmurr wrote: > > After switching threadsafe to true in my app.yaml, I had some concurrency > issues (detailed in this SO question, here : >

[google-appengine] Re: Python OverflowError with Google App Engine 1.8.1 and web2py

2013-06-13 Thread timh
I am wrong, I noticed it does now support the datastore. This web2py data abstraction layer, Looks like you will need to raise this with web2py authors. T On Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:51:20 PM UTC+8, timh wrote: > > web2py doesn't use the appengine datastore so I assume your

[google-appengine] Re: Python OverflowError with Google App Engine 1.8.1 and web2py

2013-06-13 Thread timh
web2py doesn't use the appengine datastore so I assume your using cloud sql. Are you mixing appengine datastore and Cloudsql ? On Thursday, June 13, 2013 5:32:28 PM UTC+8, Aravindan Rs wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using Google App Engine - with python 2.7 and web2py. My application > suddenly stopp

[google-appengine] Re: AppEngine is down

2013-06-11 Thread timh
Can;t be widespread. I haven't had any problems. On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:55:55 PM UTC+8, Lawrence Mok wrote: > > also down, see my other post. > > and status page showing nothing. > > On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:47:27 PM UTC+8, Mos wrote: >> >> Currently AppEngine seems to be broken. No insta

[google-appengine] Re: Some questions about instances

2013-06-03 Thread timh
Which is better is subjective. I prefer python, others java. Things to consider how much existing code from other sources for python or java that already run on appengine are you likely to use. That would feature highly in your decision making process. Performance with java seems to depend on

[google-appengine] Re: Memcache expiration

2013-06-03 Thread timh
The main thing to remember is memcache on appengine is not reliable, Despite any deadline you set, items in memcache can be purged/removed by google infrastructure at any point and you have no control over that. Having said that relatively short periods 30 minutes for expiration tend to be ok.

[google-appengine] Re: GAE client API

2013-05-29 Thread timh
As Barry said, appcfg is your api. However stop/start doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless you are talking about backends. On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:52:14 PM UTC+8, e.ho...@fci-cu.edu.eg wrote: > > Hello, > I want to know is there is any client API for Google App Engine which > help t

[google-appengine] Re: GAE client API

2013-05-29 Thread timh
Though you can stop an instance through the web console, there is not api to do that. On Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:52:07 AM UTC+8, timh wrote: > > As Barry said, appcfg is your api. However stop/start doesn't make a > whole lot of sense unless you are talking about backends. &g

[google-appengine] Re: Is possible to upload files to an application in gae?

2013-05-28 Thread timh
That does mean you can upload, just not to the filesystem On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:50:42 AM UTC+8, timh wrote: > > You will need to store them in the datastore or google cloud storage or > the blobstore. > > On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:24:04 PM UTC+8, Luis Esteban Acosta

[google-appengine] Re: Is possible to upload files to an application in gae?

2013-05-28 Thread timh
You will need to store them in the datastore or google cloud storage or the blobstore. On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:24:04 PM UTC+8, Luis Esteban Acosta Zuñiga wrote: > > Good morning, I have a java application deployed in tomcat 5.5, this > application shows dashboards in flash(swf) and there is a

[google-appengine] Re: Upcoming Change to Datastore Auto IDs

2013-05-25 Thread timh
>From my understanding sequential IDs, keys etc mean that data is written into the same area (tablet). By scattering ID's they can more distributed data and better concurrency. Maybe not the best description but thats my guess, Sequential values have been discussed in the past with regards

[google-appengine] Re: Upcoming Change to Datastore Auto IDs

2013-05-25 Thread timh
But not python. It seems to cause the javascript front ends the most woe. T On Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:26:06 AM UTC+8, Ray wrote: > > In short: if any part of your applications use 32 bit integers (which is > still the default for many environments) to store any IDs of entities, your > applic

[google-appengine] Re: App is encountering errors after maintenance period ended

2013-05-23 Thread timh
Whats the error details in the log ? On Friday, May 24, 2013 2:22:14 PM UTC+8, Iron Mountain Foundry wrote: > > > My app, eticketexpress, never recovered after the maintenance period > ended. When I request any page from my site, I get "Error: Server Error" > pages. Please fix this asap! Th

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Bad news for GAE/Java from Google I/O

2013-05-21 Thread timh
* > > Would it be easier if we offered the minimum idle instances tuning > parameter via an API? That way you could actually do your own prediction > and adjust the min idle instances programmatically. That actually sounds > very reasonable to do, but I'm just throwing ideas out now. We’re

[google-appengine] Re: DDos attack in google app engine

2013-05-19 Thread timh
You may find that googles edge infrastructure kicks in may impact your tests depending on what you are doing. On Monday, May 20, 2013 1:11:30 AM UTC+8, Dhairya Gopal wrote: > > I am M-tech studentand my thesis topic is DDoS Attack in Cloud > ComputingI want to carry out my experimental

[google-appengine] Re: Strange behavior with static .png file

2013-05-12 Thread timh
Use headers plugin in chrome or wget to examine headers. If it's being served with a content type of application/octet-stream it would normally be downloaded. T On Monday, May 13, 2013 9:22:40 AM UTC+8, john wrote: > > I have some .png files in a directory that is configured as a static file

[google-appengine] Re: appengine 1.8.0 already deploying?

2013-05-08 Thread timh
Nah You just have never had the visibility before. Newer versions have always been rolled out before the SDK has dropped. Sometimes with an issue or two. T On Friday, May 3, 2013 11:32:59 PM UTC+8, Alex Burgel wrote: > > I was just checking the console and noticed that my app was running 1.8.

Re: [google-appengine] Google to add new runtime at I/O

2013-05-04 Thread timh
Signal/Noise isn't too bad here . I hate to think what SO will look like, with all the PHP people asking how they can insert data into the datastore with GQL ;-) T On Saturday, May 4, 2013 2:33:24 PM UTC+8, PK wrote: > > New runtime? It could not be, it is not in the GAE roadmap > page

Re: [google-appengine] Changing StringProperty to TextProperty

2013-04-30 Thread timh
You will need to truncate any TextProperty to <=500 bytes. Some Potential Approaches 1. Create a new StringProperty in parallel to the existing TextProperty and gradually rewrite objects truncating as you go. 2. Fetch objects using raw datastore access (no models involved) and truncate and r

[google-appengine] Re: What is the most common IDE for GAE/Python?

2013-04-28 Thread timh
Hmm, this question is a bit like what is your favourite icecream. I don't use either, but I doubt what I use is popular ;-) I prefer Boa Constructor and Ninja IDE, but there are heaps of others I would use before Eclipse. Cheers T On Monday, April 29, 2013 12:50:25 PM UTC+8, Takashi SASAKI w

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine Permissions are not working

2013-04-23 Thread timh
Make sure that the person clicking on the permissions confirmation link isn't logged into two gmail accounts at the same time. I have found you invariably get the wrong account when clicking on the link, and then the permission is rejected. I always login to gmail in incognito mode to accept the

[google-appengine] Re: Important for Python developers - Updates to the Development Server in 1.7.6

2013-04-20 Thread timh
I posted this a few weeks ago, on how to debug 1.7.6 using Boa. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/google-appengine/Boa/google-appengine/-m00Qz4Vc7U Its not hard to do The same approach will no doubt work with winpdb, T On Sunday, April 21, 2013 5:12:42 AM UTC+8, Adam Bradle

[google-appengine] Re: 'cssselect seems not to be installed. '

2013-04-16 Thread timh
gt; lxml folder itself had the cssselect.py file within it. > > On Monday, April 15, 2013 8:32:21 PM UTC-7, timh wrote: >> >> Remember every 3rd party lib you use must either be in the SDK (lxml for >> instance) or copied/installed into your project and the >> sys.path n

Re: [google-appengine] Re: security issue (strange behavior)

2013-04-16 Thread timh
I have been meaning to post a similiar response. I wouldn't expect anything but excessive abuse of an open form. T On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:36:49 PM UTC+8, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > > You have a web form online and spammers are filling it with spam? That's > what happens when you put unauthen

[google-appengine] Re: 'cssselect seems not to be installed. '

2013-04-15 Thread timh
Remember every 3rd party lib you use must either be in the SDK (lxml for instance) or copied/installed into your project and the sys.path needs to reflect where in your project the library is located, it also needs to be deployed with your application. On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:28:06 AM

[google-appengine] Re: ImportError on SDK 1.7.7

2013-04-11 Thread timh
See this answer on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15960017/google-app-engine-no-module-named-requests-pydev and spend some time reading the documentation (link is there in the so answer) T On Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:30:17 PM UTC+8, Christoph Gerneth wrote: > > I get an Imp

[google-appengine] Re: Problem with new Chrome v26, Asynchronous DNS, and localhost

2013-03-27 Thread timh
I have no problems accessing localhost: with new dev server. Xubuntu 12.10, Chrome 25.0.1364.160 with Built-in Asynchronous DNS explicitly enabled. On Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:20:39 PM UTC+8, GAEfan wrote: > > Not sure if any of you have experienced this yet... > > Strange behavior with the

[google-appengine] Re: dev_appserver.py starts then exits with error "Unexpected port response from runtime"

2013-03-25 Thread timh
See this on stackoverflow - you will be using print somewhere http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15606043/dev-appserver-returns-error-unexpected-port-response-from-runtime T On Monday, March 25, 2013 8:23:27 AM UTC+8, Youne Hippoman wrote: > > I have successfully tried the Helloworld example aft

[google-appengine] Re: quick guide on using Boa-Constructor and remote debugger with SDK 1.7.6 new dev server

2013-03-25 Thread timh
OOps In between steps 4 and 5, your app needs the following lines added some where near the top before your handler. if hasattr(sys,'debugger_control'): sys.debugger_control.set_traceable() On Monday, March 25, 2013 6:30:05 PM UTC+8, timh wrote: > > Hi > > Here

[google-appengine] quick guide on using Boa-Constructor and remote debugger with SDK 1.7.6 new dev server

2013-03-25 Thread timh
Hi Here is a quick note to get people started with an IDE based interactive debugger with the new dev server You have to fix some code in the Boa Constructor remote debugger, but it does work ;-) 1. Get boa constructor. I am running boa-constructor as installed with apt on xubuntu 12.10 alte

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Breakpoints broken in new dev_appserver (1.7.6)?

2013-03-24 Thread timh
Hi Just for everyones info I have remote debugging in boa-constructor sort of working, I can set break points, I can see the code, breakpoints in the boa editor and step through the code. It's a little flakey (ie doesn't work all the time) and I had to patch the RemoteClient.py code inboa cont

[google-appengine] Re: Best strategy

2013-03-13 Thread timh
I have also found (in python) that startup time is much quicker if you are only loading core appengine modules. Even one non core module seemed to heavily affect startup times (especially on M/S when gae was having a bad hair day ;-). I found early on that having a fast path to cached stuff t

Re: [google-appengine] Re: instances dying is a permanent states for datastore apps?

2013-03-13 Thread timh
lot for those 15 randomy dying. Also, > my 10 million user app is quickly dying just like the instances.. it's > beautiful. > > Alright, 3 days without sleeping. I officially tried everything possible > on my side. Now it's just pray for google to fix it. > > >

Re: [google-appengine] Re: instances dying is a permanent states for datastore apps?

2013-03-12 Thread timh
on HDR? The may be related to datastore. > > thanks > rafa > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:34 AM, timh >wrote: > >> Do you have billing enabled ? >> idle instance can be shut down at any point where their count is above >> min idle. What sort of settings are yo

[google-appengine] Re: Google app-engine, SOAP service endpoint, data store

2013-03-12 Thread timh
There is no intrinsic reason why SOAP won't work. You haven't said if your using python or java. SOAP can have a large overhead, especially if your consuming SOAP services on appengine and you want to dynamically parse large WSDL definitions. But it doesn't look like you want to do that anyway

[google-appengine] Re: instances dying is a permanent states for datastore apps?

2013-03-12 Thread timh
Do you have billing enabled ? idle instance can be shut down at any point where their count is above min idle. What sort of settings are you running ? I have a low traffic site with billing usually 1 or 2 reserved instances (depending on the time of the week.) All content is dynamic (though ca

[google-appengine] Re: Strange ip address from blacklist page.

2013-02-21 Thread timh
Also warmstarts On Thursday, February 21, 2013 5:36:36 PM UTC+8, doright wrote: > > yes, I was just looking at that today too, and also noticed an always high > number from 0.1.0.3 > > Anyone know what its doing? is it google? > > appid 'mybikeshopmanager' > > > On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:02

Re: [google-appengine] Large number of sites all over the world request an image twice within a second or so

2013-02-11 Thread timh
Yeah, the lack of referrers, the use agent, and the fact they fetch the same image twice with in a second all suggests something quite odd going on. T On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 8:08:11 AM UTC+8, barryhunter wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Guido van Rossum > > > wrote: >

Re: [google-appengine] Large number of sites all over the world request an image twice within a second or so

2013-02-11 Thread timh
witter to see what happens. > > Jeff > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:48 AM, timh > > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have noticed over the last few months, that a particular image is > being > > request from on of my applications > > from sites

[google-appengine] Large number of sites all over the world request an image twice within a second or so

2013-02-11 Thread timh
Hi I have noticed over the last few months, that a particular image is being request from on of my applications from sites all over the world - they only request the image no other page/resource, they fetch it twice with in a second or so, there is no referrer in the header and the use agent is

[google-appengine] Re: db versus ndb

2012-12-18 Thread timh
Hi There are a number of differences, implicit caching, lots of async stuff. I have projects in both. If you are starting a new project with no existing gae code, I would go with NDB. Rgds Tim On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:34:18 AM UTC+8, Emmanuel Mayssat wrote: > > ndb is the next vers

Re: [google-appengine] Started getting NoIndexError as of 2012-12-11

2012-12-17 Thread timh
> some other information like the actual query your'e executing? > > -- Takashi > > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:04 AM, timh >wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Just a note, as of the 2012-12-11 I started getting the following >> error (NDB, threading enabled) >

[google-appengine] Started getting NoIndexError as of 2012-12-11

2012-12-15 Thread timh
Hi Just a note, as of the 2012-12-11 I started getting the following error (NDB, threading enabled) 2012-12-11 16:18:50.011 suspended generator _run_to_list(query.py:921) raised NeedIndexError(no matching index found. The suggested index for this query is: - kind: Product properties:

Re: [google-appengine] Memcache seems to be cleared periodically

2012-11-06 Thread timh
Expiration/expunging of memcache data is affected by a number of things. How much you have in memcache, frequency of hits, how much else is going on in google land (ie in that machines you happen to be running on etc). I have only 33MB in cache (1058 items) a 94% hit rate and the oldest item i

[google-appengine] Seeing 500 response, and error 204 in the logs.

2012-10-28 Thread timh
1. 1. Hi Every so often I see the following in my logs. A response code of 500, a warning to the effect the instance has crashed, and an error 204 in the log. I am running Python 2.7 with threading on. So it seems occasionally

Re: [google-appengine] Scheduler still not working as expected.

2012-10-13 Thread timh
Hi Barry What you are saying does make some sense. I don't regret using appengine at all. Unfortunately appengine does require us to make some optimisations that ideally should not be necessary. It's a case of leaky abstractions. All the infrastructure is hidden by abstractions however we

Re: [google-appengine] Scheduler still not working as expected.

2012-10-13 Thread timh
as to avoid these sorts of hits in performance. T > -- Takashi > > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:31 PM, timh >wrote: > >> HI Takashi >> >> fish-and-lily >> >> The event occurred at 2012-10-13 07:02:32.339 GMT+8 >> >> I was inaccurat

Re: [google-appengine] Scheduler still not working as expected.

2012-10-13 Thread timh
:57 PM UTC+8, Takashi Matsuo (Google) wrote: > > > Hi Tim, > > Can you tell me the details like app-id, the exact time of occurrence, etc > so I'll take a look? > > -- Takashi > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:13 AM, timh >wrote: > >> Hi >> >>

[google-appengine] Scheduler still not working as expected.

2012-10-12 Thread timh
Hi After all this time I still see some really odd behaviour from the frontend scheduler. Case in point. I have a billing enabled HRD instance Python 2.7, threadsafe=true Two resident instances and 3 idle instances. No traffic going to the site for the last 20-30 minutes. Fire up a request, an

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Python Pre-release SDK 1.7.2 Is Out

2012-09-16 Thread timh
which was broken before > would no longer be broken. Which is kinda the point. > > Jeff > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:01 PM, timh > > wrote: > > Requiring explicit xg means preserving the current api and semantics. > Which > > I would imagine > > is

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Python Pre-release SDK 1.7.2 Is Out

2012-09-16 Thread timh
Requiring explicit xg means preserving the current api and semantics. Which I would imagine is the reason. xg transactions will fail if you have too many different entity groups in the transaction so, requiring some thought before turning it on is probably a good idea, otherwise a lot of code

[google-appengine] Re: Alternate to Conversion API

2012-08-25 Thread timh
direct PDF generation, which is what > I currently need. Fewer moving parts and dependencies. > > On Saturday, August 25, 2012 9:24:27 AM UTC+2, timh wrote: >> >> The main problem with this approach for dymamic generation will be the >> requirement to stick stuff into do

[google-appengine] Re: Alternate to Conversion API

2012-08-25 Thread timh
s safe as it's being used by many > more people. If you try it out, please tell us how you find it? > > On Saturday, August 25, 2012 7:15:57 AM UTC+2, timh wrote: >> >> The conversion api seems to map to functionality in google docs. >> >> Could the facilities in

[google-appengine] Re: Alternate to Conversion API

2012-08-24 Thread timh
The conversion api seems to map to functionality in google docs. Could the facilities in google docs for upload/download and conversion be used ? ( Possibly not depending on what your app does.) Or are they being deprecated as well ? T On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:00:57 PM UTC+8, aswath wrote:

[google-appengine] Re: Queries hitting deadline

2012-08-24 Thread timh
If your count keeps increasing you will always run into some sort of time limit. Why not consider doing this processing in a task (they can run for 10mins, or multiple tasks. ) I am assuming your trying to summarise etc T On Friday, August 24, 2012 3:26:00 AM UTC+8, Phil wrote: > > In som

[google-appengine] Re: ideas for conditional routing

2012-07-28 Thread timh
This is why I never use webapp and all the other RE based route methods. I have used bobo (which just maps urls to objects) http://bobo.digicool.com/ T On Saturday, July 28, 2012 1:53:03 PM UTC+8, soujiro0725 wrote: > > GAE for Python 1.7.0 > > > We normally set up the routing like, > > PAGE_R

[google-appengine] Re: is there any datastore-like open source db could be used outside of gae?

2012-07-24 Thread timh
There is typhoonae which is a compatible environment to appengine. http://code.google.com/p/typhoonae/ ie compatible api as well as tasks etc... Otherwise you probably need to look at what elements of the datastore that you actually want and have a look at the myriad of nosql options that

[google-appengine] Re: 500 Internal Server Errors Not Logged

2012-07-23 Thread timh
You might want to configure warmup requests if you haven't already. T On Friday, July 20, 2012 9:18:15 PM UTC+8, Chris Vaughn wrote: > > > Thanks for the reply Kyle. I don't know for sure if it was while a new > instance was being added. I'll keep an eye on that if I see it again. -- You rec

Re: [google-appengine] Re: "Endpoints" section in the control panel?

2012-07-09 Thread timh
Go. > > Thanks, > Dan > > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:48 PM, timh wrote: > >> HI >> >> I have watched all of the presentations/videos on endpoints. All >> examples are java based. >> Are the tools and this service focussed on java only ? Wha

[google-appengine] Re: Get namespace

2012-07-09 Thread timh
Think about it, If you do bla = namespace_manager.get_namespace() namespace_manager.set_namespace(bla) Then you have just fetched the current namespace, and then set it to that value. Setting the namespace needs to be done with every request. Have a look at the first few paragraphs of Setti

Re: [google-appengine] Need help or consulting: Request was aborted errors

2012-07-09 Thread timh
Others have asked, and I will too have you profiled your app with appstats yet ? A few other points, have you compared the performance of multiple instances with threading off vs threading enabled ? Are you using warmup requests to startup new instances ? I personally have never experienced ou

Re: [google-appengine] Re: "Endpoints" section in the control panel?

2012-07-06 Thread timh
HI I have watched all of the presentations/videos on endpoints. All examples are java based. Are the tools and this service focussed on java only ? What about python/go ? Cheers T On Saturday, July 7, 2012 9:34:19 AM UTC+8, Amy Unruh wrote: > > > > On 3 July 2012 05:41, Tom Muse wrote: > >

Re: [google-appengine] Strange import errors in logs (fatal)

2012-06-25 Thread timh
Yeah This has been a problem at various stages with appengine and importing. Depending on when/how you do imports a DeadlineExceeded error can lead to problems importing stuff later. For instance an import has a dependancy on a failed import. Once this happens (especially large stack apps - d

[google-appengine] Re: Great Grandpa Query (yet another ancestor question)

2012-06-24 Thread timh
, 2012 11:49:12 AM UTC+8, timh wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Here is one approach you could use. >> >> In each entity store a list of paths of each parent. ie in second >> scenario >> >> H has a list property called parent_paths it would have the follow

[google-appengine] Re: Great Grandpa Query (yet another ancestor question)

2012-06-24 Thread timh
Hi Here is one approach you could use. In each entity store a list of paths of each parent. ie in second scenario H has a list property called parent_paths it would have the following values ['/a/g','/a'] and its children would have ['/a','/a/g','/a/g/h'] etc Then given any entity you can fet

Re: [google-appengine] Projection Queries does not work with order() and Limit parameter

2012-06-20 Thread timh
> I just added a few more records. The new ones appear without trouble. > Missing records seems to be the ones saved before the projection index was > created. > >> If you added a new index, then pre-existing items won't be in the index, unless it's rebuilt. Did you add new properties

Re: [google-appengine] Projection Queries does not work with order() and Limit parameter

2012-06-19 Thread timh
I haven't used projections in queries, but I was just reading the docs and noted the following about indexes. projectionList or tuple of names of properties to return. Only entities possessing the specified properties will be returned. If not specified, entire entities are returned by default.

[google-appengine] Re: Hitting Speckle call count quota limit !

2012-06-19 Thread timh
What on earth is a "speckle call quota" or a speckle call for that matter ? T On Sunday, June 17, 2012 9:24:02 AM UTC+8, Krishna wrote: > > > Hi, > We are hitting the speckle call count quota limit. Its a daily quota. But > there are days when we are very close to the quota. > How do we increase

[google-appengine] Re: Incorrect values for stored data

2012-06-14 Thread timh
"Data Stored Data" includes the data used by the indexes. When you take that into account is it still way over your expectation ? T On Thursday, June 14, 2012 5:36:25 AM UTC+8, Mike wrote: > > Could anyone explain why "Datastore Stored Data" does not match values > listed in the data store stati

[google-appengine] Re: gae-cms.com - A brand new CMS based on Google App Engine via Python

2012-06-14 Thread timh
Is there a live demo somewhere ? On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:06:59 AM UTC+8, GAE-CMS wrote: > > I am the creator of a brand new CMS called GAE-CMS. > It is based on Google App Engine written in Python 2.7. It is free and > open source (GPL). It has been designed f

[google-appengine] Re: "HTTP 404 File not found" for file downloads

2012-05-11 Thread timh
Hi The URL in your tag needs to point to either a handler or a static resource. If your getting a 404 then the URL is incorrect and does not map to either of these. T On Friday, May 11, 2012 4:44:33 PM UTC+8, Uma Jeyachandran wrote: > > Hi > > I have an application in appspot.com. When I at

[google-appengine] Re: Why is App Engine so sloww..

2012-02-09 Thread timh
The free accounts do use the same infrastructure. Are you sure it's not your application. Also tuning in the control panel for idle instances etc... can help. But you haven't really provided any information on your application, how long startup takes, (it looks like 20secs from the image). Yo

Re: [google-appengine] Re: non-existent support?

2012-01-31 Thread timh
Umm , I am reading it because it was listed in the "Google App Engine". and I don't see the evidence backing up your statement "It seems to me that Google constantly hide threads that says something bad on AppEngine from the group just to makes AppEngine "looks better" to new users. " I have be

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Recurring DeadlineExceededError when loading instances..

2011-12-29 Thread timh
I just found one of my sites is stuck in this performance hole too. T -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/aTY25NFLvZsJ. To post to thi

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Recurring DeadlineExceededError when loading instances..

2011-12-29 Thread timh
As I said earlier , you can get stuck in a bad part of the google infrastructure. They could have some heavy processing running, or some sort of failure in a few boxes, and it doesn't show up on the system status, and your other instances aren't affected as they live in a different part of ap

[google-appengine] Re: Recurring DeadlineExceededError when loading instances..

2011-12-29 Thread timh
Are you on MS or HR (I am assuming python) If on MS historically you could find yourself in a bit of appengine infrastructure that is having a bad hair day and raised latencies can turn into slow import times and then DEE's and instances not starting. The system status will look fine as their

[google-appengine] Re: Not Implemented Error in Django ,Twitter Api in Google appengine

2011-12-26 Thread timh
The stacktrace is telling you what is going on. return os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), cache_directory) raise NotImplementedError("Only tempfile.TemporaryFile is available for use") As you already know you can't write to the filesystem in appengine, so having a function in the tempfile

Re: [google-appengine] Re: GAE for a web based MMORPG

2011-12-24 Thread timh
Whilst you are doing your research, have a look at how EVE is built. Its a single game universe, run on stackless python. You won't be able to do this on appengine either, but there is lots to be learnt from those guys if you into game backends. Cheers T -- You received this message becau

[google-appengine] legacy windows application

2009-04-14 Thread TimH
I have a legacy windows application I want to make available on the web. Is this possible with App Engine? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email

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