Appengine

• Oct 7 2010 - lowering impedance of TDD with python mock ... So after my post about gaeunit a few weeks ago I’ve since completely thrown out what I was doing there and moved to vanilla python unit tests. I ended up making this move for a few reasons.  1. I was never running my tests. GAEUnit was nice, but slow. Even when running tests in parallel I still had to go through the process of opening the browser, navigating to the right place and letting the tests run.
• Aug 20 2010 - Unicode woes and Python unit testing in GAE ... One of the really cool aspects of deploying to Google’s cloud offering (GAE) versus the more machine oriented Microsoft Azure and AmazonEC2 approaches are that you really are only dealing with computing resources. You deploy your app not to any particular server, but to the cloud itself. Despite the very real challenges in distributing work across data centers I am still filled with visions of automagical propagation and distribution and unlimited elastic computing.
• Jul 19 2008 - blogquotes prototype is working ... I’m supposed to be studying for a challenge exam I’m writing this week in “Advanced” Operating Systems. Instead I spend a good chunk of the day today working on blogquotes in between watching/playing with my daughter. I can justify this time spent because I did all of this work exclusively from a bash shell using vi to refresh myself on some of the content for the course. In this session I was able to use wget,grep,awk,vi,a shell script and some file permissions.
• Jun 10 2008 - Google's changing the rules again (appspot) ... I am super excited about Google’s recent foray into cloud computing, the app engine. They are not first, I realize Amazon has been doing some pretty cool things with the S3 services and their computing services but the ability to simply and easily have an application that can leverage BigTable and GQL, google account authentication, image manipulation, memcache and having that all live within the seemingly infinite scalability of the google platform is extremely exciting for me.