You don't need an invite to give it a go, just download the SDK - this installs a local version of App Engine on your machine for you to develop locally on, and offers all the bits you get in the live environment (the idea being you develop in the SDK then just deploy to live from your machine, all seems well thought out).
>From my quick playing around doing the tutorials etc it seems OK, however I don't know python, and the BigTable database they offer is a big departure from the MySQL and SQLServers of this world. Very limited queries, not relational, no UI. Essentially it is built for speed, so think denormalised structures, optimised for quick easy reads at the cost of slightly more complicated inserts and updates. If you're more used to well structure 3NF database design, like me, you might struggle to get a web app working on there quickly, you'll have to change your whole approach to storing and retrieving data. Anyway, that's my $0.02 worth, Chris On 10/04/2008, Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 08/04/2008, David Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 08/04/2008, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Having looked at the SDK it hosts WSGI based python web applications > (which > > > covers basic scripts through to frameworks like django & pylons), > which is > > > pretty cool IMO. Interestingly it looks like they're providing > sandboxing, > > > which I'm guessing uses the facilities from pypy, but that's a pure > guess. > > > > > > Anyone got any experiences they wish to share? > > > > > > I've read on the webpy list that webpy works very well. I assume most > > pure Python frameworks will work too, if django is not your thing. > > > > I understand most of the Google App places were snapped up pretty > > quickly, most by people who attended to the Google > > workshop/announcement. > > > I've just blagged an invite from a mate in Google, Will report back. > > Peter > > -- > Peter Bowyer > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
