According to this thread on the Google App Engine forums, it appears that Google App Engine has become unreachable for some Chinese developers as of two days ago, with more developers reporting that their apps have become affected today.

Damien Hou, author of three Google App Engine apps stated that one of his apps has 360,000 users and that as of this morning his apps were unreachable. (more...)

Going Solo Leeds is a one day educational conference for freelancers and small businesses on September 12th in Leeds, UK.

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This is a quick screencast to show you the data export solution I've created for Google App Engine that lets you backup your application's datastore and restore it either locally on your development machine or on the same Google App Engine application on the deployment environment or on a different Google App Engine application (which you can use as a staging environment).

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View the full-resolution version at screencast.com.

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A new version of the Google App Engine Helper for Django has been released.

Release notes (Wed 6 August 2008) follow:

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