I second G's opinion. It is far to easy to spend days designing and coding to solve things that should not need solved at this high of a level. You could get yourself some real fine hosting with the money you could save spending your time on more valuable things.
Right now I am heavily using app engine, and I really like it in general. But some days it is very frustrating. Robert On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:24 PM, G <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been thinking about this very topic, even (re)considering > PHP. :) > > You might want to look into using Django, or one of the other Python > web frameworks, instead of the modified version running on AppEngine > (the same could be said for the Java flavor). There are a couple of > free hosting services available. > > While not deep into AppEngine; my current impression is that AppEngine > needs more time to mature as a development target. Though some things > are easier, a lot of time is wasted working around old bugs, design > limitations, and incomplete implementations. Server status > information is also lacking, and feels more like a marketing mindset, > where an honest 'five nines' mindset would be more useful. In my > experience, the development speed benefits of Python (and Django) are > lost to AppEngine trivia. The promise of high scalability for data > isn't exclusive to AppEngine, especially when memcached is the first > line of defense, so even that is not an exclusive win. > > -- > G > > > paulmo wrote: >> thanks for links. I have read those. I should have stated that I have >> created a guestbook app with GAE >> as a trial to explore the datastore etc. >> >> I was looking more for feedback from users who are deep in GAE and can >> make a comparison: >> >> Do you miss not having a relational database? Workarounds given my >> situation of using 2 tables? >> Are/can you use Google's webtoolkit or ajax/css apis without having to >> deploy 3rd party apps? >> >> Stuff like that... >> On Jan 6, 9:07 am, Sylvain <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I think most answers are here >> > :http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/ >> > >> > Do the "getting started", and everything will be clear. >> > >> > About django templates : you can use it (or not) or use static files >> > (html, css, >> > js,...)http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/staticfil... >> > >> > You can create forms directly inside the code (without template) >> > :http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/handlingf... >> > >> > Hope it will help. >> > >> > Regards. >> > >> > On Jan 6, 1:33 pm, paulmo <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > I love all things Google, but I'm wondering if I should put in effort >> > > to migrate to Python, Datastore and GAE. >> > >> > > My non-commercial app has two distinct text forms: one is a radio >> > > selection and one is a text string that gets exploded and is searched >> > > in elseif statements against arrays. The original message is posted to >> > > 2 tables in MySQL: one with entire message, and another with exploded >> > > array words. This second table is queried for most common words and >> > > echoed in a datatable. >> > >> > > Both of these forms must be in same app. >> > >> > > My app also uses geo location and css/js libraries. >> > >> > > I'm confused about Django templates; I did not see any CSS/JS >> > > "templates" per se in the docs; does a beginner do best with static >> > > CSS/JS files? >> > >> > > The attraction of GAE seems to be doing everything in one interface/ >> > > set of tools, and I'd like to keep it that way: I don't need a bunch >> > > of links and 3rd party apps. >> > >> > > Advice greatly appreciated. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > >
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