Denise just featured my MOOsaic on the MOO blog. Yay! :)

This one had me scratching my head for a while today:

I created a Django application called "site" in my project, and although everything was working perfectly locally with the Google App Engine SDK and Google App Engine Django Helper but when I deployed, I got an ImproperlyConfigured error.

Changing the name of the application fixed the issue.

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Issue 404 is the key to getting OpenID working on Google App Engine but currently it only has 10 stars.

Please star Issue 404 to get OpenID support on Google App Engine.

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Google has released videos from the Google IO conference.

(For some strange reason, you need to log in with your Google account to something called Google Sites in order to see the page.)

Developer emptor: I just lost a couple of hours to this: make sure you disable the Google App Engine doctest import in your apps when you're done testing a module lest you encounter _weird_ errors. I started having the login URL returned by users.create_login_url() being returned incorrectly when I forgot to remove the doctest import. It started forwarding to https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=. Check out my forum post on it here.

I love Python's doctests. Basically, you test out your functions in the interactive shell and copy the results into the comments for a function. That's it! So simple.

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