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25 12 08 • App Engine, Articles, Community, Development, Featured, Open Source, Projects, Python, Tools and Utilities

Google App Engine Backup and Restore (Gaebar) released

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 [...]

Tags: app, app engine, backup, django, gaebar, project, Python, restore, utility Comments (44)

02 10 08 • App Engine, Development, Flash, Python

Running the PyAMF shell with Django 1.0 and app-engine-patch

I lost quite a bit of time trying to get the PyAMF shell up and running on the <head> web site this week. I started out by downloading the source for the shell app via a link on a post on the PyAMF blog. Unfortunately, the link was to the wrong version of the shell [...]

Tags: app engine, app-engine-patch, django, Google, pyamf, shell Comments (2)

12 08 08 • Open Source, Python

Screencast demonstrating the first Google App Engine data export solution (full backup and restore)

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 [...]

Tags: App Engine, backup, data, datastore, django, export, open initiatives, Open Source, Python, restore, Singularity Comments (7)

11 08 08 • App Engine, Python

New Google App Engine Helper for Django released

A new version of the Google App Engine Helper for Django has been released. Release notes (Wed 6 August 2008) follow: This is the last version of the Google App Engine Helper for Django that will support Django 0.96. Future development of the helper will be targetted for the upcoming 1.0 release of Django. Improved SDK detection on Windows by [...]

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22 06 08 • App Engine, Development, Python, Tools and Utilities

Winning at the shell game: iPython on Google App Engine

iPython is an awesome extended Python shell that gives you goodies like tab completion for instances, history tracing (so you can easily copy interactive sessions as doctests), etc. And, if you install it, your Django project on Google App Engine will automatically start using it instead of the regular python shell when you use ./manage.py [...]