App Engine
18 Jul 2008
I can't believe I missed this when it first came out (it was probably because I'd just started on the my crazy two-month trip to simultaneously learn Google App Engine, brush up my Python, and build the new Singularity web site):
From the Simon Willison/Natalie Downe dream team comes yet another very useful service for Google App Engine developers: jsontime.
I have been meaning to blog about this for some time (no pun intended!)
Update: Paul McDonald, Product Manager on Google App Engine, emailed me to offer their support. Thanks, Paul, I really appreciate it.
I wrote to Google on April 19th, 2008 to ask for the quotas to be lifted on the upcoming new web site for the Singularity Web Conference.
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 shell.
To install iPython on OS X Tiger (yes, my Leopard discs are still safely in their box since I downgraded and I don't see any reason to bring them back out yet), I followed the following steps:
Take a sneak peek at the new Singularity web site on Google App Engine. You can sign up for the site, which will go live in July, and register your interest in the conference and help me test out the deployment environment. (And yes, Singularity is inverting its colors for the second half of the year.)