Blogquotes

• Aug 24 2010 - blogquotes version b02.1 ... New release of blogquotes is out, with the biggest change being a switch from exclusive reliance on google accounts for login to leveraging a cool service at http://www.janrain.com/ that gives me a simple way of integrating authentication from a bunch of different sources. So you no longer need to be a google user to use blogquotes!   Note that if you were previously using google to login this should just work albeit with a slightly different UI.
• 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.
• Aug 9 2010 - Blogquotes version b01.2 ... Didn’t expect to get more released this weekend or I would have combined these posts, but another quick release of blogquotes, the following are added : - enhancement: quotes table is sortable by either “who” or “quote”  - enhancement: click to edit on any cell in the table for convenient fixes  - bugfix: missing robots.txt In the background I’ve also added analytics to the header so I can get a sense of how much traffic the site is seeing.
• Aug 7 2010 - Blogquotes version b01.1 ... A new version of blogquotes has been published this morning. Not a lot of new features, but at least the wheels are turning again and some annoying bugs have been addressed. - bugfix: adding quotes with some types of punctuation caused page errors - bugfix: unicode characters in quotes caused errors when pulling those quotes out for includes - bugfix: hitting enter on the “who” input field caused a page error, now hitting enter is equivalent to clicking “Add”
• 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 13 2008 - Gadgets in Blogger ... So I’ve actually started my blogquotes project which was intended as a widget style provider for random quotes (from a personal library) to appear somewhere on my site. I’m using the new Google app engine for this project and so far I have to say it’s pretty damn easy. From barely knowing python to having a django templated, gql driven tiny quote engine. Granted it’s the “hello world” of web apps, but still considering I have an application running on Google, with built-in authentication and datastore ….