App Engine
20 Dec 2008
Dan Sanderson has a good article on Google Code on Using Django 1.0 on App Engine with Zipimport, however it misses two steps in preparing the django.zip file if you want to use the latest Django trunk with the latest Google App Engine Helper.
To create a new Django application for Google App Engine using Google App Engine Helper, start by exporting the latest Google App Engine Helper:
I'm getting a weird Invalid Argument error while trying to hit localhost with urlfetch in the latest Google App Engine SDK.
I traced the issue to the _RetrieveURL method in /usr/local/google_appengine/google/appengine/api/urlfetch_stub.py and implemented a quick hack, adding the following at line 152:
I'm seeing a lot of misinformation out there that Google App Engine has SSL support. It doesn't.
Google today released Google App Engine SDK 1.1.6 (announcement, download) which, among other things, brings with it datastore keys that you can sort and filter on.
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