Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-18 Thread Keith Jenkins
Thanks for sharing that, Doug. It's not mentioned at all in the Developer's Guide (contains everything you need to know): http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/ I'll have to take a closer look at the src docs... Keith On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Doug Chestnut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-18 Thread Doug Chestnut
For an example, check out the bulk loader article (it includes a simple program that searches the datastore by keyword using the SearchableEntity): http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/bulkload.html The last time I tried the bulkloader it had problems with utf8. --Doug On Fri, Jul 18, 2008

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-17 Thread Doug Chestnut
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Keith Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So it's a bit of a hack just to get a left-anchored search. Querying for a particular keyword anywhere within a string value would be even more work. For small datasets, I guess you could iterate through every

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-16 Thread Keith Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aside from the limitations imposed by the index model, the problem then is fundamentally similar to how you index MARC data for use in any discovery system. I think Godmar is referring to GAE's lack of keyword searching.

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-16 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aside from the limitations imposed by the index model, the problem then is fundamentally similar to how you index MARC data for use in any discovery system. Presumably, you could learn from the experiences of the many

Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-15 Thread Godmar Back
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Fernando Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any thoughts about a convenient way of storing and (more importantly) indexing retrieving MARC records using GAE's Bigtable? GAE uses Django's object-relational model. You can define a Python class, inherit from

[CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine

2008-07-13 Thread Godmar Back
Hi, since I brought up the issue of the Google App Engine (GAE) (or similar services, such as Amazon's EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud), I thought I give a brief overview of what it can and cannot do, such that we may judge its potential use for library services. GAE is a cloud infrastructure into