[google-appengine] Re: Static File Serving

2009-10-27 Thread Barry Hunter
See: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/appconfig.html (notice the 'java' in the url :) stumpy is saying already setting a expiration time, just that it has no affect on edge caching. 2009/10/27 nickmilon nickmi...@gmail.com: Don't understand what you mean by appengine-web.xml

[google-appengine] Re: Bulk Delete...

2009-10-28 Thread Barry Hunter
I'm curious why you think its even possible? As you say there is no option to delete data via appcfg. If you want to delete, as you say just implement it yourself via your application. 2009/10/28 jimmer freshc...@gmail.com: Does anyone know how to bulk delete the datastore via the appcfg.py

[google-appengine] Re: Will memcache data ever be evicted if have spare memory?

2009-10-29 Thread Barry Hunter
memcache is a shared system. Everybody uses from the same 'pool'*. So if the system as a whole is running out of memory maybe your data will get evicted. Some have stated there is also a per user limit (perhaps 10Mb - but it could change). As others have stated - never design that the data will

[google-appengine] Re: Paranormal.Activity.2009.DVDSCR

2009-10-31 Thread Barry Hunter
Its Spam, the Google Groups are plagued with them of late. The trick is they pretend to send from an email address, that is obviouslly a member of the group. (of course only affects groups allowing email submission) Whats particully bad, in this case they fake a google.com email address, and

[google-appengine] Re: More than 10 applications

2009-11-03 Thread Barry Hunter
If you have a genuine use case (ie not just abusing the system) Google will increase the 10 app limit. The only issue is currently have to wait until a developer spots your request in this group. (well they have in the past) 2009/11/2 Chris chris.slink...@gmail.com: I'm looking to use Google

[google-appengine] Re: Thoughts on pagination with GAE

2009-11-07 Thread Barry Hunter
2009/11/6 wings: What I would really like to discover is a solution that is: ... wouldnt we all! I'm not sure its been determined that a 'true' solution exists. ;P Or at least a simple one. And one that works on massive datasets, like AppEngine is meant to support. Coming from mysql, its

[google-appengine] Re: Closure and Google App Engine

2009-11-07 Thread Barry Hunter
2009/11/7 hawkett hawk...@gmail.com: What sort of runtime modification are you talking about? A user changes a piece of javascript, or adds a piece of javascript - for the sake of the example lets assume the javascript is stored in the GAE datastore.  Something that you get from javascript,

[google-appengine] Re: SEO Friendly Website using App Engine?

2009-11-09 Thread Barry Hunter
You should use Google Apps to 'map' your domain to App Engine http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/domains.html This way the visitor accesses your actual pages using your actual domain, rather than the appspot domain. 2009/11/9 kghate kgh...@gmail.com: Just created my first app engine

[google-appengine] Re: Converting html pages into images

2009-11-09 Thread Barry Hunter
I would think this is outside the realm of AppEngine - at least in the short term. I suppose a java application might justabout be able to do it. Just use a third party application to do it http://webshotspro.com/ or many more http://www.google.com/search?q=thumbnail+website 2009/11/9 Gerard

[google-appengine] Re: users.get_current_user().email() and gmail and case

2009-11-10 Thread Barry Hunter
When I registered I used upper case in the gmail address. But google sometimes refers to me using the lower case version, and sometimes the camel case. And I just tried, and can send myself a email using all uppercase version. -- so Gmail is definitly not case sensitive. Also remember with

[google-appengine] Re: Datastore between apps.

2009-11-11 Thread Barry Hunter
2009/11/10 Ikai L (Google) : A better approach if you absolutely need to write your application using two languages is to have two applications, with one application using URLFetch APIs to post to the application hosting the authoritative data store. Doesn't the Terms preclude running two

[google-appengine] Re: Datastore between apps.

2009-11-11 Thread Barry Hunter
2009/11/11 Ikai L (Google) : Per the terms: http://code.google.com/appengine/terms.html: 4.4. You may not develop multiple Applications to simulate or act as a single Application or otherwise access the Service in a manner intended to avoid incurring fees. So you're correct in that we

Re: [google-appengine] Where is my data - in Relation to Data Protection Laws - US? EU? Elsewhere

2009-11-17 Thread Barry Hunter
I believe the only active data-centers are currently in the US. But that could change, you cant rely on any specific location. App Engine engineers have said that at least in the short term to medium there is no plans to be able specify a geographical location. 2009/11/17 Charles

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Limit on image size very low

2009-11-17 Thread Barry Hunter
Has everyone here actully stared the issue tracker request? http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1422 thats far more likly to be taken notice of. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group,

Re: [google-appengine] Basic site

2009-11-18 Thread Barry Hunter
The helloworld example here http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/helloworld.html is probably about as simple as it comes. On 18/11/2009, Matthew Kramer ran...@gmail.com wrote: I'm fairly new with Google App Engine and I'm wondering if there is a tutorial that shows how

Re: [google-appengine] Emailing With Google App Engine

2009-11-25 Thread Barry Hunter
personal opinion If AppEngine was to get special treatment to make emails bypass spam filters, surely it would just become a prime target for spammers. And that can only be a bad thing. / On 25/11/2009, Olivier Coste coste.o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, With Google App Engine you can use

Re: [google-appengine] Can a bank system be transactional and low contentious?

2009-11-27 Thread Barry Hunter
Have you seen: http://blog.notdot.net/2009/9/Distributed-Transactions-on-App-Engine 2009/11/27 风笑雪 kea...@gmail.com: I just watched some Google I/O videos about GAE yesterday, and I have 2 questions about transaction. Assume I need to build a bank system, two clients (Alice and Bob) want to

Re: [google-appengine] Multiple datastores or share datastore in one app

2009-12-01 Thread Barry Hunter
Yes App Instance = Datastore Instance is a one to one mapping. As for maintaining domain separation see http://blog.notdot.net/2009/11/API-call-hooks-for-fun-and-profit 2009/12/1 andreas_b andreas.borg...@gmail.com: Hi all. I'm working on a GWT/GAE project where the idea is to create a

Re: [google-appengine] Weird memcached issue

2009-12-02 Thread Barry Hunter
Joshua, See: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-python/browse_thread/thread/6f251a0efacc1f62 and http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/fe334c9e461026fa On 02/12/2009, Joshua Smith joshuaesm...@charter.net wrote: *Please* tell me that you are

Re: [google-appengine] application port

2009-12-10 Thread Barry Hunter
There is no single IP - GAE is a dynamic application. You should use the DNS name - thats teh point of DNS so you dont need to keep track if IP address changes. Post is 80 (or 443) - appengine only responds to HTTP requests. 2009/12/10 HKHAIRANE hichamkhair...@gmail.com: Hi everybody, i have

Re: [google-appengine] local sdk datastore too slow with a medium size data set

2009-12-12 Thread Barry Hunter
The code is all visible, so implement it yourself. Failing that see this: http://blog.notdot.net/2009/04/Announcing-BDBDatastore-a-replacement-datastore-for-App-Engine It mentions a couple of further alternatives too. 2009/12/12 Ubaldo Huerta uba...@gmail.com: Very often, while doing a restore

Re: [google-appengine] Block IP Address

2009-12-13 Thread Barry Hunter
I guess its not exactly what you looking for but see: http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/billing.html#dos If the calls are costing you quota, they might help. Otherwise for dynamic (python/java) requests, you can block them at your application level. It wont totally negate quota usage, but

Re: [google-appengine] Support for SSL on different domains

2009-12-13 Thread Barry Hunter
Yes SSL only works on your .appspot.com domain. Current browser technology doesnt really make it feasible for Google to offer SSL on custom domains. It would need this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication - its browser support is not wide enough to make it worthwhile 2009/12/13

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Introducing App Engine SDK 1.3.0

2009-12-15 Thread Barry Hunter
Stephen, have you seen? http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/blobinfoclass.html looks like you should be able to query that to get the mime-type (admittedly it is the client provided one, not a server-side verified one. ) 2009/12/15 Stephen Mayer stephen.ma...@gmail.com: Hi

Re: [google-appengine] Get IP from Website

2009-12-16 Thread Barry Hunter
Socket is a disallowed module http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html#Pure_Python On appengine, currently you need to call an external webservice (via urlfetch) - which kinda sounds like it makes your application superfluous ;) 2009/12/16 Aces.LinuX fbr...@gmail.com: Hi

Re: [google-appengine] information retrieval

2009-12-16 Thread Barry Hunter
Have a look at http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=217 in particular the comments. 2009/12/16 ailinykh ailin...@gmail.com: Hello everybody! I have some data stored by GAE, and want to add search functionality. If I run my own server I would use Lucene. Is there any

Re: [google-appengine] Determine Location from IP Address via GAE

2009-12-17 Thread Barry Hunter
Visitor location powered by Google: http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/documentation/#ClientLocation (its client side, but could send the data to serverside) 2009/12/17 Devel63 danstic...@gmail.com: A common task is to identify the country of origin for an incoming IP address.  Seems silly for

Re: [google-appengine] Does URLFetch supports retreive self application's URL?

2009-12-18 Thread Barry Hunter
Sounds like you actually looking for the Task Queue http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/taskqueue/ by definition the handlers are on your app. 2009/12/18 WdWeaver kenta.wat...@gmail.com: Hi all, Does URLFetch support retreiving self application's URL like below? //At some

Re: [google-appengine] ACL in GAE - Role based permissions

2009-12-18 Thread Barry Hunter
What is GAE 3.0 ? 2009/12/18 Ahmed ahme...@gmail.com: According to the documentation for GAE 3.0, it still does not support custom security-roles. Is there anything i can do to add ACL to my GAE application? TIA! Ahmed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [google-appengine] Duplicating static serving

2009-12-27 Thread Barry Hunter
Surely it depends on what your 'problem' was. As long as you setting a MIME/Content type on the dynamic file, the browser shouldnt know the difference. If you can be more specifc, it would probably be alot easier for someone to help you. 2009/12/27 MajorProgamming sefira...@gmail.com: I

Re: [google-appengine] Breaking my head on Opensearch

2009-12-27 Thread Barry Hunter
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#symptoms 2009/12/27 MajorProgamming sefira...@gmail.com: I'm trying to implement an Opensearch XML solution in one of my apps. But IE8 seems to be having some problems with it. I think it might have to do with encoding or content-type issues. How

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Duplicating static serving

2009-12-27 Thread Barry Hunter
http://www.google.com/search?q=python+%22content+type%22+app+engine 2009/12/27 MajorProgamming sefira...@gmail.com: Okay, how can I set MIME/Content type correctly? That might've been the issue... On Dec 27, 5:36 pm, Barry Hunter barrybhun...@googlemail.com wrote: Surely it depends on what

Re: [google-appengine] A simple search against a datastore. (Newbie to AppEngine, currently PHP/MySQL).

2009-12-29 Thread Barry Hunter
This page is pretty much required reading: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queriesandindexes.html That covers the low level queries, how exactly you do it within the context of your application, is very hard to say, because we dont know the specifics. 2009/12/29 Diligent

Re: [google-appengine] Image API get dimension.

2009-12-30 Thread Barry Hunter
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/images/imageclass.html 2009/12/30 trung tr...@phamcom.com: Is there a way to retrieve the dimension of the upload image? like image.get_width() or image.get_height()? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [google-appengine] Measures taken to speed index building

2010-01-02 Thread Barry Hunter
A index built against a empty datastore (or at least a Model without any Entities) should always be available immediately. Or at least that is my experience. This makes sense because such an index doesnt actully need to go though the 'bulk build' pipeline (which can be a cause of delay if the

Re: [google-appengine] Index building CPU time

2010-01-03 Thread Barry Hunter
2010/1/3 jd jdpatter...@gmail.com: If I modify an Entity to set a property from unindexed to indexed will a new implicit index be created?  Will I have to re-put the entities to include them in the index? Yes you will. Only when perform the put, will the the Entity be added to that single

Re: [google-appengine] Would you use GAE for an app such as Twitter or Facebook?

2010-01-12 Thread Barry Hunter
2010/1/12 Pancho yfa...@gmail.com: Would you use GAE for an app such as Twitter or Facebook? Yes? yes. (as in would consider it, lots of factors would influence the final decision) No? Yes (as in could well end up doing it elsewhere) Pros/ Easy to scale relatively cheap Cons? Upfront

Re: [google-appengine] how can i transport dataprogram files from a app id to another app id?

2010-01-15 Thread Barry Hunter
program files - easy, just change the appid in app.yaml, and reupload. data - do a dump from the original, then a restore to the new app http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html#Downloading_and_Uploading_All_Data 2010/1/15 ncowboy ncow...@gmail.com: is there a

Re: [google-appengine] Proxying your urlfetch requests so that they come from a static IP

2010-01-17 Thread Barry Hunter
In the article you mention not knowing the specific IPs appengine url-fetches come from, however a Google employee has said on this group you can get the IP ranges from dig _netblocks.google.com TXT (they are announced for SPF purposes) The list is quite long and potentially changes so might

Re: [google-appengine] full-text search of 10 million strings

2010-01-20 Thread Barry Hunter
Simple-Text-Search (or Searchable) would probably work unless you need complex queries and/or proper ranking (but you say 'closest' so possibly not) From what I understand of Compass etc, they pretty much need to load the whole index into memory to use it, so are not going to work on large

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Gzip on App Engine? Apparently automatic, but webmaster tools complains

2010-01-21 Thread Barry Hunter
2010/1/21 Danny Tuppeny da...@tuppeny.com: Hi Wesley, The problem is shown in Google Webmaster Tools, not my browser. In Webmaster Tools (labs - site performance) it shows ways that you can speed up your site. This includes telling you if GZip isn't enabled. I can't check what headers

Re: [google-appengine] Please can i do this project or not !!!

2010-01-22 Thread Barry Hunter
As long as you can break you computation down into chunks that run for less than 10-30 seconds each. (and capable of saving their state totally) then yes http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue/ 2010/1/22 zied...@gmail.com zied...@gmail.com: I am a Tunisian student in computer

Re: [google-appengine] Keymaster to store your keys

2010-01-23 Thread Barry Hunter
Do you have an example client implementation? I'm not totally sure how to use it. (but am looking though the source) 2010/1/22 Jeff Lindsay progr...@gmail.com: For a while I've been complaining App Engine needs Admin defined environment variables that can be used to store api keys, passwords,

Re: [google-appengine] High latency with custom domain

2010-02-03 Thread Barry Hunter
Who do you use as your DNS provider. ghs.google.com is distributed (but is just a proxy - so there are multiple). Perhaps your dns is not actully local, so you sometimes get a locally cached version, sometimes a transatlantic one. In anycase I beleive appengine is hosted in a single datacenter,

Re: [google-appengine] Blobstore and ImageService

2010-02-04 Thread Barry Hunter
Technically if you resizing the image, then it must end up being less than 1Mb - so you don't /need/ to use the blobstore - could just store it yourself in the Datastore. Would likly complicate your application tho, having to deal with some images in the blobstore, and some just in the datastore.

Re: [google-appengine] How will mydomain.appspot.com and www.mydomain.com affect my site index?

2010-02-05 Thread Barry Hunter
This is not something particully unique to appengine, but applies anywhere where can access the same content on multiple urls. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=66359 Often the easiest and safest way is to arrange for the 'duplicate' urls (appspot) to redirect to

Re: [google-appengine] Does Websense block AppEngine ip addresses?

2010-02-08 Thread Barry Hunter
Well if you using a custom domain, its 'Google Hosting'/ghs that used to serve your site, not appspot.com itself. ghs.google.com is shared by blogger, Google Apps, and a number of services. So it might not be appspot that is being 'blocked' as such, but any number of other hosted services (eg a

Re: [google-appengine] Deploy to google app engine

2010-02-10 Thread Barry Hunter
Umm, a good start would be the Error you got? What did it say? On 10 February 2010 12:27, Rajalakshmi Subramanian raji.sm...@gmail.com wrote: I developed one web application project using GWT with gdata.I sucessfully run the project within eclipse but an error occurs when i deployed it in

Re: [google-appengine] GAE + image processing

2010-02-11 Thread Barry Hunter
I guess you mean python image library (PIL) ? - its not available on AppEngine. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html#The_Sandbox (the Images Python API - included in AppEngine cant do what you suggest) ... so no this is not feasible on AppEngine alone. On 11 February

Re: [google-appengine] Server time issue - off by 2 days?

2010-02-12 Thread Barry Hunter
it's important to bear in mind that no guarantee of sequentiality is made for the automatic IDs, only that they'll be unique http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/t/2d0b9f20ac51560d On 11 February 2010 23:31, Peter Liu tinyee...@gmail.com wrote: We just found something very strange in

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Upload and download files (Blob)

2010-02-12 Thread Barry Hunter
Its not the only way http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/images.html As for being experimental, its not really any more experimental that the whole App Engine - use it would probably be fine, just watch when new releases come out incase some syntax changes - unlikly though IMHO. On 12

Re: [google-appengine] Re: App Engine SDK 1.3.1 is out!

2010-02-13 Thread Barry Hunter
From the documentation: If you have administrator-only pages in your application that are used to administer the app, you can have those pages appear in the Administration Console. The Administration Console includes the name of the page in its sidebar, and displays the page in an HTML iframe.

Re: [google-appengine] I'm dumb: How do I push out updates of one of my apps?

2010-02-13 Thread Barry Hunter
There is no way to download the code*. You need to get the folder from the partner so you can redeploy the application. Maybe you can have it or a copy in a shared location. Recommend to use some sort of version control system to track changes.

Re: [google-appengine] GAE Email is going to the spam folder. Best Practices to avoid this??

2010-02-15 Thread Barry Hunter
You could setup SPF records on your domain to designate AppEngine as a permitted sender. I beleive you can use _netblocks.google.com to delegate. have a look at how gmail.com does it, can use `dig gmail.com TXT` Not a magic bullet, but shouldnt harm and is quite easy. On 15 February 2010

Re: [google-appengine] wish: nestable/embeddable entities

2010-02-20 Thread Barry Hunter
Is there a reason you havent posted this as a suggestion via the issue tracker http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list On 20 February 2010 06:43, notcourage klr...@gmail.com wrote: Nestable/embeddable entities would be used to build graphs of entities which are serialized inside

Re: [google-appengine] How long does JCache instance stay alive?

2010-02-26 Thread Barry Hunter
According to the Documentantion the JCache implementation is just a wrapper around memcache http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/memcache/ With memcache you explicitly set the expiration time you want on how long the data should survive for. The 'memory' is actually distributed and lives

Re: [google-appengine] Google App Engine final release?

2010-02-26 Thread Barry Hunter
Does it really matter? It would just be a tag. And would just be decided by someone. It wont make a big difference to the service (IMHO of course) Whats more important is the service suitable for you? Does it have the features and reliability you can live with? The best information we outside

Re: [google-appengine] Re: How long does JCache instance stay alive?

2010-02-26 Thread Barry Hunter
to know.  Do you know if there is a maximum expiration time -- for example, if I set expiration to something like 4-8 hours, would that be a bad practice? On Feb 26, 4:29 am, Barry Hunter barrybhun...@googlemail.com wrote: According to the Documentantion the JCache implementation is just

Re: [google-appengine] A newbie question: How I get my app src on AppEngine?

2010-02-26 Thread Barry Hunter
You can't. Keep your own copy. A Version Control System is ideal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control Or even something like getdropbox.com - allows access from multiple machines. On 26 February 2010 16:44, Ada holybre...@gmail.com wrote: Several years ago , I upload my first app ,then

Re: [google-appengine] Using a kind of SQL like statement in JDO (Java)

2010-02-26 Thread Barry Hunter
You can't at least directly. The underlying AppEngine Datastore doesnt support these queries. But there are various projects looking at implementing full-text search on AppEngine. (both python and java) On 26 February 2010 08:30, Jörg joerghoe...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello everybody, I'm

Re: [google-appengine] BlobProperty limit

2010-03-02 Thread Barry Hunter
Is it possible to increase the limit for blobproperty size upto 10 MB? no. Split the Blob and store in 10 Separate entities. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [google-appengine] Proximity search

2010-03-03 Thread Barry Hunter
Mutiny is a slightly refined of (and better version) than geohash http://appgallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=agphcHBnYWxsZXJ5chQLEgxBcHBsaWNhdGlvbnMYjekBDA Dont know how easy would be to port to java. On 3 March 2010 05:59, Robert Kluin robert.kl...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked into

Re: [google-appengine] Re: Help with 414 Request-URI Too Large

2010-03-19 Thread Barry Hunter
However the href= will need url encoding (in particular the 's), so that pushes the length upto 2588 chars. Depending on how you generating the link, perhaps an idea would be to accept links in the form http://chart.apis.google.com.shorten.myapp.appspot.com/chart?cht=lxych Then the bit

Re: [google-appengine] SMS Confirmation Problem

2010-03-25 Thread Barry Hunter
You dont need to create a new account, to create a new app. An account can have by default 10 apps. On 25 March 2010 06:04, Jonathan jonathan.na...@gmail.com wrote: I already have one app-engine application Just wanted to create the second one It says that: The phone number has been sent

Re: [google-appengine] Re: SMS Confirmation Problem

2010-03-26 Thread Barry Hunter
, Barry Hunter barrybhun...@googlemail.com wrote: You dont need to create a new account, to create a new app. An account can have by default 10 apps. On 25 March 2010 06:04, Jonathan jonathan.na...@gmail.com wrote: I already have one app-engine application Just wanted to create the second one

Re: [google-appengine] Are static websites permitted in App Engine?

2010-03-26 Thread Barry Hunter
Who's going to know? A website is outputted as html from the server, doesn't make any difference if the file is created via script, or just outputed as is. So as the difference is basically academic, so as long as your site meets the ToU it should be fine. A site like

Re: [google-appengine] How to download a JSON object from my app engine server?

2010-04-08 Thread Barry Hunter
http://www.google.com/search?q=content+disposition On 8 April 2010 18:13, Sherry mywacco...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to have my application return a JSON object for download. I'm trying to simulate the behavior that happens when I access the page:

[google-appengine] Re: Memcache consistency

2008-09-08 Thread Barry Hunter
From my understanding and experience, no. memcache is for caching - storing data temporally - its is not a data store (and you have access tot a consistent one of those). Its probably implemented as multiple caching 'servers' so each one would/could store their own copy. On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at

[google-appengine] Re: Download my Application Code

2008-09-13 Thread Barry Hunter
Setup a version control system and host your code there. There are many sites overing cheap or free (eg code.google.com/hosting ) - or you could set it up on your own server or similar. When ever you upload to AppEnging - just set a marker (or tag or whatever) to mark the last version uploaded.

[google-appengine] Re: Download my Application Code

2008-09-17 Thread Barry Hunter
1) yes - another reason is that GAE seems to deploy static files seperately to code. So thats another complication in downloading (and one that the enter app doesnt address). Also its not clear that GAE actully stores a copy of your app.yaml and index.yaml -so those might never be retreiveable.

[google-appengine] Re: Please Announce Expected Release Date for Pay-as-you-go

2008-09-20 Thread Barry Hunter
See this http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/msg/4429b58ce3aa3265 On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:52 AM, martian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Google Staff, Your AppEngine service is pretty awesome. It is so awesome in fact that we based an entire business application around it and

[google-appengine] Re: Strange expiration date (now + 1 day)

2008-09-22 Thread Barry Hunter
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Sylvain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Yes, i thought is was an issue with the app.yaml. So, i've removed it ('default_expiration'.). But this bug continues. One important thing : it is random. And to raise it, it was sometimes hard/long. If the Dashboad

[google-appengine] Re: What is the best way to perform search

2008-09-24 Thread Barry Hunter
its hinted at here: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/bulkload.html how to create searchable entities. On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Vitaliy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example I have a model Foo: filed1 StringProperty field2 StringProperty how can I search for some term

[google-appengine] Re: SUM and COUNT for too many possibilities of result sets

2008-09-27 Thread Barry Hunter
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Ilia Lobsanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know aggregates have been discussed a lot already and that the way to do it is at write time. However my application is a full text search engine where each keyword produces a different result set. I need to report

[google-appengine] Re: Still having trouble with high-cpu warnings for thumbnails.

2008-09-29 Thread Barry Hunter
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Arun Shanker Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My app is also causing the same problems, I have used etags to set the response to 302 if cached, I've tried everything short of memcache, I have many images, I don't think that is a viable solution for me. Why

[google-appengine] Re: Terrible

2008-09-30 Thread Barry Hunter
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:43 PM, zunzun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is unistalling? What is an unuser? I just hope a user and a unuser never actully meet, the anti-matter explosion could destroy the earth! James On Sep 27, 9:48 pm, rc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the most

[google-appengine] Re: using javascript libraries

2008-10-01 Thread Barry Hunter
AppEngine can only execute Python Code, so that is all you can upload (and expect to run) But Javascript is (normally) a client side language, so you can upload a javascript lib to appengine as a static file, which the browser just downloads and runs *itself* On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:33 PM,

[google-appengine] Re: Is there anyway of getting the dimensions of an image?

2008-10-02 Thread Barry Hunter
With python code! http://www.google.com/search?q=image+dimensions+pure+python On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:41 AM, acuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to generate a 20x20 image out of an uploaded image. Using the image API I can resize it to 20x20 but for non-square input images I get a

[google-appengine] Re: Is there are notion of *HOSTING* a virtual machine on AppEngine

2008-10-03 Thread Barry Hunter
I think thats the very essence of AppEngine, that its not like this. It's designed to scale automatically - transparently to the developer. I things should work exactly the same if its running on one 'instance' or 20 thousend. mangaging seperate 'instances', bringing up more, taking them down

[google-appengine] Re: Retrieving More than 1000 entities

2008-10-03 Thread Barry Hunter
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Aral Balkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is now a 1,000 limit on offsets (which was introduced without any notice). FWIW, From the very beginning I understood it as only every having access to the first 1000 results (regardless of offset) This is mentioned

[google-appengine] Re: Where are the codes of GAE SDK Development Console?

2008-10-09 Thread Barry Hunter
I think you need to look in http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/source/browse/#svn/trunk/google/appengine/tools its not a real file, so look at admin_dispatcher of http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/source/browse/trunk/google/appengine/tools/dev_appserver.py which in turn takes to

[google-appengine] Re: 1000 file limit

2008-10-10 Thread Barry Hunter
Couple of options: Host the 'static' files elsewhere (eg Amazon S3 - esp as it will soon have a CDN) Store the files in the datastore, and serve them dynamically via a script. (be careful to set good caching headers to avoid wasting resources) Store the files in zip files (beware a 1Mb limit)

[google-appengine] Re: 1000 file limit

2008-10-10 Thread Barry Hunter
to S3. Its as simple as FTP. Link :https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247 Rgds, Venkatesh On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Barry Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Couple of options: Host the 'static' files

[google-appengine] Re: Redirect isn't working

2008-10-10 Thread Barry Hunter
Have a look here: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=17 that mentions the issue, and seems to suggest that follow_redirects can be used to fix it? On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:15 AM, yejun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was testing OpenID consumer example for appengine.

[google-appengine] Re: Why my website is speeder using www. than without ?!?

2008-10-13 Thread Barry Hunter
Google have decided they can no longer support 'naked' domains, ie without a www - mainly becuase naked domains cant work well with cname records. And the technology they used to work around that limitation itself has issues. http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/commontasks.html#naked_domain

[google-appengine] Re: consistent order when sorting on values that are the same?

2008-10-14 Thread Barry Hunter
Possibly best just to try it! But from http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/datastore/queriesandindexes.html * In the case of a tie, the key of the entity is used as the tie-breaker. ... its talking about list fields - but the same code is probably used for sort order of non-lists. On Tue,

[google-appengine] Re: Can Google please stop marking Google App Engine mail as spam?

2008-10-14 Thread Barry Hunter
I'm not quite sure I understand, are you suggesting that Postini should whitelist all AppEngine emails? That sounds bad, would make appengine an attractive target for spammers. It's true at the moment the technical hurdles make it unattractive, but a default whitelist would make it very much

[google-appengine] Re: I can't setting HTTPS

2008-10-18 Thread Barry Hunter
Are you using the very latest version of the SDK? On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:07 AM, lyc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is my app.yaml: application: fssmain version: 1 runtime: python api_version: 1 handlers: - url: /account/.* script: main.py login: required secure: always

[google-appengine] Re: Doubts about terms of service

2008-10-18 Thread Barry Hunter
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:28 PM, jaideep.dhok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, My apologies if this is not the right forum for my queries. I am considering app engine to deploy some of my apps, but I am somewhat confused about the terms of service. I went through the FAQ and ToS, but

[google-appengine] Re: HTTP POST

2008-10-27 Thread Barry Hunter
XMLHttpRequest (it works for things other than XML) On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:51 PM, TonyB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, So there's no way to do it without using a hidden form? Cheers. On Oct 27, 1:45 pm, Barry Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not really appengine specific

[google-appengine] Re: Is there any way to remove an application?

2008-11-03 Thread Barry Hunter
Google also make search engines... http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/search?hl=enq=remove+an+applicationqt_g=Search+this+group On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:53 PM, onur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to remove an application or change its subdomain name. Is it possible? --

[google-appengine] Re: Unable to send mails from application

2008-11-03 Thread Barry Hunter
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Prakash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to make use of the Mail API as provided in the gallery page. I am using the web application as provided in http://www.42topics.com/dumps/appengine-search/doc.html I am trying to mail this content to a mail id. It is

[google-appengine] Re: External Storage Options?

2008-11-03 Thread Barry Hunter
The simplest would probably be just to use incredibably hard to guess URLs - and then the GAE app knows the real url, or how to calcuate it. (eg using md5 hashes with a shared secret) Its not totally secure, people without an account could still access them, if they where given the url, or if

[google-appengine] Re: Error while sending 250 emails

2008-11-03 Thread Barry Hunter
Single requests lasting over 8 seconds are likly to be killed by the server ;p so need lots of requests spread out. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Yogi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okai if this is the case, should it be done by through multiple http requests or it can be done by giving a delay

[google-appengine] Re: GAE vs. EC2

2008-11-05 Thread Barry Hunter
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:39 PM, bFlood wrote: EBS - from the amazon docs: A volume can only be attached to one instance at a time, but many volumes can be attached to a single instance. http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ Isn't this a inherent limitation of the technology, not a Amazon one? Trying

[google-appengine] Re: GAE vs. EC2

2008-11-05 Thread Barry Hunter
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:10 PM, yejun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 5, 1:55 pm, Barry Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:39 PM, bFlood wrote: EBS - from the amazon docs: A volume can only be attached to one instance at a time, but many volumes can be attached

[google-appengine] Re: SSL for GAE app with Google Apps domain: CNAME a problem

2008-11-05 Thread Barry Hunter
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:49 PM, dm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a domain david-and-alison.com which I have set up with Google Apps and GAE. The DNS entry for www.david-and-alison.com is a CNAME record that points to ghs.google.com. All is well. The following URL works fine:

[google-appengine] Re: Dashboard lists URIs which shouldn't be served..?

2008-11-06 Thread Barry Hunter
If they are on the AppEngine logs then a browser must of requested them. I suggest trying your site via Fiddler, or similar - basically something that allows you to observe http traffic from the browser. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:04 PM, jago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I run an my little

[google-appengine] Re: urlfetch ResponseTooLargeError - what is the limit?

2008-11-08 Thread Barry Hunter
Yes did mean: python variables [in AppEngine] are limited to 1Mb anyway, so the urlfetch wouldnt be able to return bigger files. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To

[google-appengine] Re: URL help information removed?

2008-11-09 Thread Barry Hunter
Yes its been deprecated, http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/commontasks.html#naked_domain a search for 'naked domain' on this group should reveal the reasoning behind it. On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:03 AM, DocDay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so long ago, this article: Google Labs and

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