Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-15 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
My apologies to the list: My original statement was in error. Wesley correctly describes what countries we block and why. -Nick Johnson On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Wesley Chun (Google) wesc+...@google.comwesc%2b...@google.com wrote: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, and Sudan are a

Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:38 AM, WallyDD shaneb...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice if people could use some actual examples as to why app engine is a joke. One problem with emails doesn't cut it. The time limit has been discussed until we are all sick of it. I am not convinced that Google

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread Thanasis
Thanks for the clarification. On Jan 14, 10:19 am, Nick Johnson (Google) nick.john...@google.com wrote: This is not correct. We do not block any App Engine site for any country or region. Any blocking is entirely due to third parties between the user and our servers. -Nick Johnson -- Nick

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread WallyDD
Rubbish. Do you want some proof? This is not correct. We do not block any App Engine site for any country or region. Any blocking is entirely due to third parties between the user and our servers. -Nick Johnson On Jan 12, 8:41 am, mateusz mateusz.r...@gmail.com wrote: Standard

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread WallyDD
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1072 On Jan 14, 4:19 pm, Nick Johnson (Google) nick.john...@google.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:38 AM, WallyDD shaneb...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice if people could use some actual examples as to why app engine is a

Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread Nickolas Daskalou
Wow, reading the comments on that issue scares me. Does Google really block App Engine access in those countries, or are those countries blocking GAE IPs? 2010/1/14 WallyDD shaneb...@gmail.com http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1072 On Jan 14, 4:19 pm, Nick Johnson

Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread OvermindDL1
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Nickolas Daskalou n...@daskalou.com wrote: Wow, reading the comments on that issue scares me. Does Google really block App Engine access in those countries, or are those countries blocking GAE IPs? It is mostly other countries blocking GAE. If even one site on

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread WallyDD
Here is a page from a user in Syria; http://imgur.com/WGtuI Only China blocks GAE. The rest are blocked by google. Quite frankly I have no clue how the citizens let such a government evolve... Are we talking about the entire US government or just Hillary? On Jan 14, 5:56 pm, OvermindDL1

Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread OvermindDL1
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:16 AM, WallyDD shaneb...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a page from a user in Syria; http://imgur.com/WGtuI Only China blocks GAE. The rest are blocked by google. Quite frankly I have no clue how the citizens let such a government evolve... Are we talking about the

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread nickmilon
Locke , May be you are right I am not that experienced, but since I have been around programming since IBM 360 370 era, machines you probably have only seen in technology museums, and I tough the subject for years etc. etc. and I still make a living from this job, means I am only lucky. By the

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread qburst
We have been developing our internal HR and invoicing app in GAE for the last 1.5 years. This system used to be stable. Of late, that has changed. We are getting random server errors (timeouts may be), at least 50% of the time. This has made the application quite unusable. Is anyone else

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread Lucifer
In China, it really blocked by Gov. We cannot access Youtube, Facebook, Twitter especially in some special period, We cannot access whole *.appsopt.com For the process have to take long time to run, it have to be broken down into small piece of tasks. This is basic theory of cloud computing.

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread Mike
We've noticed a lot of timeouts too recently... however these aren't reported in the logs. The app just doesn't return results. Has been happening in the last 2 weeks. Very frustrating. Database timeouts (which are recorded in the logs) are also pretty unacceptable. On Jan 14, 10:27 pm, qburst

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread WallyDD
How much proof do you want? How about I offer free first class tickets to any of the blocked countries to both Larry and Serge? And for the timeouts I keep getting? Should I fly Larry, Serge and everyone on this group to where I am to look at my logs? On Jan 15, 2:21 am, Locke

Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread Nickolas Daskalou
In the future if Google allows us to choose which country our apps are hosted in and we choose to host outside the US, would that lift this restriction? 2010/1/15 Wesley Chun (Google) wesc+...@google.com wesc%2b...@google.com Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, and Sudan are a magical group

Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread Niklasro.appspot.com
2010/1/12 Thanasis t.deleni...@gmail.com I also tend to think that GAE is a very promising environment, but it's currently unusable. My case: A simple, oss related web site, using just jsp tags to include headers/ footers. It gets about 300 uniques / 1000 pageviews per day. No servlets,

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-14 Thread WallyDD
Many thanks Wesley for the clarification and an acknowledgment of the issue. We can all wait and see what Hillary has to say next week. http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/us-state-dept-to-unveil-internet-policy_435366.html On Jan 15, 11:11 am, Wesley Chun (Google) wesc+...@google.com

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-13 Thread Satoshi
2. Use the flash to retrieve the data from datastore. If the request failed, retrieve it again. This can be done using HTML+JavaScript as well. Here is the piece of code from my app (notice that it uses jQuery), which performs HTTP-GET (which could be HTML, JSON or anything) and retry up to

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-13 Thread nickmilon
Thanasis take it easy - it was just a joke (may be of a bad taste but, as you mentioned it was not my day) , and nothing to do with your English the intention was just to make you think that sometimes we write bad code in a harry and then blame the infrastructure or whatever. Getting to GAE

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-13 Thread Locke
Nick, you must have very little experience programming if you can't think of a reason for a process to run for more than thirty seconds. Ever hear of background tasks? Cron? TaskQueue? Ever use URLFetch? That eats your execution time no matter how efficient your app is. Right now, appengine just

Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-13 Thread Eric Ka Ka Ng
well, for me, i don think i could judge how much programming experience others are having. what i can contribute is my answers / experiences to some objective questions question no.1 - process running for more than 30 seconds sure, whatever kinds of batch processing, huge updates, urlfetch for

Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-13 Thread Jeff Schnitzer
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Eric Ka Ka Ng ngk...@gmail.com wrote: question no.1 - process running for more than 30 seconds sure, whatever kinds of batch processing, huge updates, urlfetch for thousands of URLs etc. can take long long time. but this is just NOT what GAE built for. it

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-13 Thread WallyDD
It would be nice if people could use some actual examples as to why app engine is a joke. One problem with emails doesn't cut it. The time limit has been discussed until we are all sick of it. I am not convinced that Google has a lot of money making websites on it (whether they make money through

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-13 Thread Thanasis
For which countries is GAE currently blocked? And when you say blocked, you mean blocked for developers or for visitors? On Jan 14, 7:38 am, WallyDD shaneb...@gmail.com wrote: Google also blocks GAE to quite a few countries yet points fingers at the Chinese Govt. -- You received this message

Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-13 Thread Eric Ka Ka Ng
1) There are no data-intensive applications that do not at some point require batch processing.  No matter how clever you are in designing your application, at some point you will need to run a big query to calculate statistics, change the model, clean the data, etc.  If you haven't had to do

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-12 Thread mateusz
If the same action once finish successfully and second time, the same action finish with error page, i cannot tell that platform is stable and predictable for business -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group,

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-12 Thread Thanasis
I also tend to think that GAE is a very promising environment, but it's currently unusable. My case: A simple, oss related web site, using just jsp tags to include headers/ footers. It gets about 300 uniques / 1000 pageviews per day. No servlets, no processing, nothing like that - just pages.

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-12 Thread mateusz
yeah, so read the comments about Request was aborted after waiting too long to attempt to service your request. problem - without any explanation from Google; this is very instable platform, but I will try, I will try... I am writing basic servlets so in normal app server it works predictable,

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-12 Thread ramu
It does work most of the time... You just have to structure it properly. In 1 of my scripts upto 40% of the statements are try:catch :D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-12 Thread Locke
You have to spend more time trying to get around all those random quota and rate-limit landmines than you spend actually developing your application. Then you have to deal with having your processes killed all the time for bogus reasons. So this is not ready for business yet. If my app is working

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-12 Thread Thanasis
Maybe (a big maybe) if Google introduces some other lighter language (like PHP(?)), we could stand a chance. But now (the Java GAE version is what I am playing with), GAE seem so massively oversubscribed that it makes the worst web hosting industry's oversellers to look like paradise. I would

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-12 Thread nickmilon
This GAE is a joke keeps coming in the group from time to time so it is a joke by itself by now. For me it is a wonderful platform, provided you know what are you doing, do not forget it is a tool you got to know how to use, just optimize your code for it and it delivers for you. Contrary to

Re: [google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-12 Thread Patrick Twohig
To the original poster: Get Pissed. It helps. In all seriousness, though. I think that GAE has its fair share of limitations, but has a lot of potential. Like everything else, I think it best you read the documentation, do a little prototyping and assess weather or not it meets your needs. If

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-12 Thread ajaxer
sometimes it is a joke. especially when it is claimed to be a scalable platform where you cann't fetch items which index is more than 1 thousand. On 1月13日, 上午8时59分, Patrick Twohig patr...@namazustudios.com wrote: To the original poster:  Get Pissed. It helps. In all seriousness, though.  I

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-12 Thread Thanasis
I really think you need a cup of coffee - hard day maybe? Leave my English aside. You are referring to a post in my mailing list started by someone else - missed that by mistake??? Even so, your assumption that only English Professors write good code is by itself indicative of your deep software

[google-appengine] Re: This App Engine is a JOKE

2010-01-11 Thread Greg
On Jan 12, 1:41 pm, mateusz mateusz.r...@gmail.com wrote: It's wasting time to think that you can use google app engine as production environment event for the smallest form based application. It has worked very well for my business for over a year now. If you build your application right, I