I woke up this morning to some great news in my inbox from Pete Koomen, one of the engineers on the App Engine team who was kindly helping me out with the issues I was having last year and whom I've been liaising with since regarding App Engine: Subject: I think you might enjoy this http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/02/skys-almost-limit-high-cpu-is-no-more.html Thanks for [...]

I've just tagged Gaebar Beta 3 (version 0.3) in GitHub. This is a bugfix release, with changes almost entirely submitted by or suggested by the community. Thanks go to gumptionthomas, Martin Kleppmann, Tony Andrews, Rafal Jonca, and, of course, Guido van Rossum, for your patches and feedback. Changes in Beta 3 Merged gumptionthomas's pull request (commit) Fixed unicode and [...]

Real World Google App Engine Aral Balkan Jan 2009 View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: google app) I just posted my slides from last night's talk at the London Django User Group on SlideShare (and you can view them above). A big thank you to Rob and the DJUGL team for [...]

I'm happy to announce that there's quite an important update to Gaebar that brings with it some essential bug fixes and should help shave quite a bit of time off of your restores. I've also created a new project called gaebar-gaed-skeleton on GitHub that gives you an empty Google App Engine Django (Helper) project with Gaebar [...]

Update: Beta 2 Released! See the Gaebar Beta 2 announcement. Here's my Christmas present for the Google App Engine community: Google App Engine Backup and Restore (or Gaebar, for short). Gaebar is an easy-to-use, standalone Django application that you can plug in to your existing Google App Engine Django or app-engine-patch-based Django applications on Google App Engine [...]