On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:54 PM, djidjadji <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Is the GAE SDK causing more harddisk failures then average?
> Am I at risk having the SDK on my harddisk?
> I have it now for almost a year on my computer.


No, nothing the SDK does could conceivably cause your hard disk to fail any
faster than any other program.


>
>
> Possible solutions for all coders losing there code.
> 1) use an SVN/GIT/SCCS/CVS/RCS/... version control system, repository
> on a different computer/harddisk (use an editor that can handle this
> VCS, have a look at emacs, never to late to learn it)


A wise idea no matter what you're  developing. There are many free or cheap
source control hosts, such as github, too. Editor support isn't essential,
though.

-Nick Johnson


> 2) make a copy of the code daily on a different harddisk (there are
> tools for this, secondcopy and such)
> 3) make a copy of the code daily on an external USB device
> 4) make a copy of the code daily by FTP to an external computer.
> 5) make a zip of the code daily and mail it to yourself to a web based
> email account (eq. gmail) (7 Gb zipped code is a lot) (maybe an
> incremental zip)
>
> If one of these methods is too much you don't value your doodle.
>
> Hopefully Google will never enable the source download because google
> accounts are sometimes hacked and that means that anybody can borrow
> my code.
> "He, John Doo has written a nice app, lets look at his source code."
>
> 2009/7/30 Haisheng HU <[email protected]>:
> >
> > In my case I just lost the source code of a project, although it is
> > not a big one. (So I didn't get it into SVN or something like that.)
> > It would be great to be able to download the source code from app
> > engine. Gasp!
> >
> > Haisheng from Beijing
> >
> >
> > On Jul 23, 5:02 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> Hi Jungang,
> >>
> >> Using a version control system such as SVN or Git is your best bet. App
> >> Engine is not intended to be used as version control.
> >>
> >> -Nick Johnson
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Juguang XIAO <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > This is not a usual case, but people at times may still need it.
> >>
> >> > I have two machines, one in office and one at home, working on the
> same GAE
> >> > project. My usual practice to synchronize these 2 environments is to
> copy
> >> > the files over my USB drive. As you can see this is very traditional
> way.  I
> >> > once came across the idea to use a SVN server to sync, but now I think
> it
> >> > may be the best that GAE provides such features for us. When we do
> >> > `appcfy.py update`, it is really a update or check-in. Why not just
> add
> >> > check-out ?
> >>
> >> > My 2 cents
> >>
> >> > Juguang
> >>
> >> > --
> >> > =============
> >> > Juguang XIAO
> >> > Beijing, China
> >>
> >> --
> >> Nick Johnson, App Engine Developer Programs Engineer
> >> Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration
> Number:
> >> 368047
> > >
> >
>
> >
>


-- 
Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine

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