Following up on my previous post about Python Objects in the Google Datastore where I’ve shown an easy way of storing any python object inside the Google Datastore by pickling it. Pickling works fine and it can literally store functions, classes and class instances in the datastore which is great, but as I discussed earlier, JSON could work too, so here I’ll introduce a similar...
App Engine: Python Objects in the Google Datastore
Howdy! Hope you’re all good and getting ready for the upcoming holidays! I’ve been writing Google App Engine code last month more than ever before. I finally got to a file and data structure that I myself can understand. Hopefully we’re all aware that the Google Datastore is not relational and that most of the frequently used data types are supported: StringProperty...
Installing Python 2.5 on Ubuntu Linux 10.10
If you’ve been working on App Engine and you’ve noticed that some stuff works on your development server but not on your production, it may be related to the different versions of Python. Latest linux builds including Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 come with Python 2.6 pre-installed, but Google App Engine still runs Python 2.5 (an issue has been created to add Python 2.6 support, make sure...
Foller.me Has Got a New Home: Google App Engine
That’s right, Google App Engine! For those of you who don’t remember, Foller.me is a Twitter app I wrote back in 2009. Honestly, I never realized back then that performance is an issue until the day I got featured on Mashable. More about it in a previous post. If you’re not familiar with Foller.me, I’ll explain it here in a couple of words: Foller.me is a web application...
A Brief Introduction to Google App Engine
If you’ve been following my tweets you might have noticed that I’ve been running around Python and Django and Google App Engine for the last few weeks. Honestly, I fell in love with Python the second I wrote my first few lines of code, but it is not what this post is about. This post is about my short experience with App Engine. My first experience with App Engine was back in 2009...
Google Developer Day Moscow 2010
It’s been a good Friday last week, although I was a little bit late for the show. The event was held in Crocus City Hall in Moscow, which is quite wicked unless you drive there by car. Google Developer Day Moscow 2010, we all waited so long for it (one whole year actually) and it turned out to be… fascinating, as usual! Starting early morning we got some coffee (which I was late for)...
Amazon Web Services: Cloud Computing Free of Charge
Howly shmoly, just read the announcement of Amazon’s Free Usage Tier offering an EC2 micro instance free of charge for a whole year! Sounds cool, doesn’t it? Well let’s go back a few months and analyze the reason why I left Amazon in favor of Media Temple’s (ve) service: Amazon is way too expensive for a young geek like me, barely having the money to pay rent for my lousy...