Re: [Tutor] Google App Engine

2008-04-09 Thread Kent Johnson
bob gailer wrote: > I watched the Campfire videos. Very interesting. > > Big drawback: no support for join queries. Reasons given seemed pretty > weak. Because the underlying datastore (BigTable) doesn't support them? I'm not sure but I think this is a key to the scalability of the data store.

Re: [Tutor] Google App Engine

2008-04-09 Thread bob gailer
I watched the Campfire videos. Very interesting. Big drawback: no support for join queries. Reasons given seemed pretty weak. How would one migrate an existing app that has hundreds of (in some cases) involved joins? The only way I can see is to write a bunch of queries and then "join" them in th

Re: [Tutor] Google App Engine

2008-04-09 Thread H.C. v. Stockhausen
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:04:03AM -0400, Kent Johnson wrote: > H.C. v. Stockhausen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:35:37AM -0700, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: > >> Hi! Google announced an app server > > > how safe is it to just run the dev server, as I didn't get one of the > > prerelease accou

Re: [Tutor] Google App Engine

2008-04-09 Thread Kent Johnson
H.C. v. Stockhausen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:35:37AM -0700, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: >> Hi! Google announced an app server > how safe is it to just run the dev server, as I didn't get one of the > prerelease accounts either. If by 'safe' you mean 'secure', I don't really know but I gue

Re: [Tutor] Google App Engine

2008-04-09 Thread H.C. v. Stockhausen
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:35:37AM -0700, Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: > Hi! Google announced an app server that allows pure Python developed > applications/services to use their infrastructure. This maybe of use to many > on this list. Further details can be found at: http://appengine.google.com/

Re: [Tutor] Google App Engine

2008-04-08 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
To summerize, it's Python 2.5.2, gutted to remove any chance of storing anything local. Plus you can define patterns that get mapped to Python CGI scripts. Included are also a number of APIs e.g. for data storage (that look at first glance visually similiar to Django models), an API to authenticate

[Tutor] Google App Engine

2008-04-08 Thread Dinesh B Vadhia
Hi! Google announced an app server that allows pure Python developed applications/services to use their infrastructure. This maybe of use to many on this list. Further details can be found at: http://appengine.google.com/ The SDK include a modified Python 2.5.2 and Django 0.96.1, WebOb 0.9 a