[google-appengine] Re: What's the difference among key, id, and key name?

2009-05-13 Thread Big Stu
When you create entities, you have the option of specifying a unique key name that you can use to reference these entities directly (e.g. retrieving entities without queries, thereby improving the performance of your application). I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying if I know

[google-appengine] Re: Creating a filter using google api

2009-05-13 Thread Big Stu
What is a filter in this context? Is this a Java thing? I've been listening in on the group conversation as a python developer. I'm not following you guys. Thanks Stu On May 12, 4:08 pm, niklasr nik...@montao.com.br wrote: On May 11, 6:13 am, Nikhar nikhar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I

[google-appengine] Re: New Blog About GAE

2009-04-01 Thread Big Stu
Thanks for the heads up. I've subscribed to hear more. Stu On Mar 31, 5:23 pm, pfisk peter.f...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have started a new Blog discussing a new Website that will be deployed in April. The site uses GXT for the user interface, Google's Application Engine for the server

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine Patch - dumpdata then loaddata

2009-03-25 Thread Big Stu
Alright, I think I optimistically read Waldemars note about how DateTimeProperty was the only property that is supported. I'll shelf this for now. I'll take a stab at this at implementing the other properties at some point soon. Stu On Mar 24, 7:45 pm, Big Stu stu.dohe...@gmail.com wrote

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine Patch - dumpdata then loaddata

2009-03-24 Thread Big Stu
wrote: On Mar 20, 3:31 pm, Big Stu stu.dohe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Waldemar,   Thanks for following up, and thanks for all your hard work with App Engine Patch.  I'm having a lot of fun learning about app engine and django in my spare time, and hope to one day move my full time career

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine Patch - dumpdata then loaddata

2009-03-24 Thread Big Stu
I just found out how insanely easy it is to open, edit, and save a file within a zip file under vim. I came across it on this link: http://blog.vorpal.cc/category/linux/vim-can-open-zip-files.html On Mar 24, 12:34 pm, Big Stu stu.dohe...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working with the most recent GAE

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine Patch - dumpdata then loaddata

2009-03-24 Thread Big Stu
there be something wrong with my setup? Otherwise I would think there would have been many complaints about this issue already. On Mar 24, 12:42 pm, Big Stu stu.dohe...@gmail.com wrote: I just found out how insanely easy it is to open, edit, and save a file within a zip file under vim.  I came

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine Patch - dumpdata then loaddata

2009-03-24 Thread Big Stu
there be something wrong with my setup? Otherwise I would think there would have been many complaints about this issue already. On Mar 24, 12:42 pm, Big Stu stu.dohe...@gmail.com wrote: I just found out how insanely easy it is to open, edit, and save a file within a zip file under vim.  I came

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine Patch - dumpdata then loaddata

2009-03-24 Thread Big Stu
Looks like this BadValueError is happening when the deserializer tries to parse the data field of the sessions.session model. On Mar 24, 7:30 pm, Big Stu stu.dohe...@gmail.com wrote: So, I editing the django1.0/core/serializers/python.py file to have the changes mentioned in Issue 70

[google-appengine] Re: Charging for you app.

2009-03-20 Thread Big Stu
I'm not absolutely sure myself (I haven't read the terms yet either), but from some of the previous questions/answers I've seen on here it sounds like you're good to go. Good luck! Stu On Mar 19, 10:38 am, Ronn Ross ronn.r...@gmail.com wrote: If I create an app in gae. Can I charge people for

[google-appengine] Re: Dynamic Code Within Templates

2009-03-20 Thread Big Stu
If I understand you correctly you should be fine. You'd have a base.html template with a {% block %} for your navigation, and then a separate {%block%} for your content. In the navigation block you'd use some dictionary entry (e.g., navbar_dict) to populate your various entries in the

[google-appengine] Re: Datastore newbie question

2009-03-20 Thread Big Stu
I'm guessing you're just getting your app off the ground and you're referring to some test data you want to play with? You have datastore data available to your application after your application puts some in there itself. So you'd have your application running on the server (local development,

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine Patch - dumpdata then loaddata

2009-03-20 Thread Big Stu
in that. Anyway, the property I'm tryign to dump is DateTimeProperty: date = db.DateTimeProperty() I'll have a look at that file you refer to and see if I can figure something out. Stu On Mar 19, 2:00 pm, Waldemar Kornewald wkornew...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 18, 6:19 pm, Big Stu stu.dohe...@gmail.com

[google-appengine] App Engine Patch - dumpdata then loaddata

2009-03-18 Thread Big Stu
I'm having a problem with my App Engine Patch project where if I dumpdata from my app engine server using: ./manage.py dumpdata --format json data.json Then reset the servers data: ./manage.py reset And then try to reload that data: ./manage.py loaddata data.json I get complaints about Date

[google-appengine] Re: App Engine Patch - dumpdata then loaddata

2009-03-18 Thread Big Stu
If I try using a different serializer (yaml) I get this complaint: Error: Unable to serialize database: cannot represent an object: s...@localhost So json doesn't like date formats, and yaml doesn't like the email address field. Anyone know whats up here? THanks Stu

[google-appengine] Re: New GAE App: Wordds.com - magazine articles optimized for your iPhone, Kindle BlackBerry

2009-03-05 Thread Big Stu
Hey Eric, Looks really cool! Very clean design too. If you don't mind sharing, what kinds of tools/libraries did you use to put it together? I'm also looking at doing an app that I want to be as useful through a mobile device as through the desktop web. -What web framework? -Is the mobile

[google-appengine] Code reuse, templates, view layer understanding?

2009-03-05 Thread Big Stu
I'm slowly digesting all the pieces involved in this whole GAE thing (not to mention the ins and outs of web apps in general). Python is such a treat to work with. I recently read some article on Django/ Python that talked about the emphasis on code reuse woven into the technology. This is

[google-appengine] Re: Entity Groups

2009-02-10 Thread Big Stu
It also benefits from locality. Entity groups are stored close together (needed to make transactions fast), which is why lots of small entity groups makes the overall application faster (because they can be spread out). If you do a bunch of processing on groups of entities in a single