I was without a Net connection today at one point and needed to run the development server for my Google App Engine app and the server kept getting stuck while trying to check for updates.

Checking the options for dev_appserver.py, I couldn't find a setting to tell it to stop checking for updates to the SDK.

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When I was first starting out with Google App Engine (GAE), I wrote a short post detailing my thoughts on whether to use Django or Google's own webapp framework for GAE projects. In that post, I concluded that "there isn't a compelling reason to use Django at the moment with GAE".

Since then, I've re-evaluated my decision and, a few weeks ago, I ported the Singularity web app to Django from webapp.

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I've moved the common base classes for the framework to the actionscript folder in the root of the project. Add this folder to your class path in both Flash and Flex projects.

Note that your document class in Flash projects should extend org.gaeswf.flash.BaseApplication and your Application MXML in Flex should be of type org.gaeswf.flex.BaseApplication (if none of this makes any sense to you, see my Flex 3 Code Behind Quick Start.)

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I just released version 1.33 of The GAE SWF Project and, as tradition would have it, need to head to bed in the next few minutes lest I should expire.

The updates in a nutshell:

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How cool, I just heard from Brajeshwar on Twitter that The GAE SWF Project is currently the featured application on the Google App Engine Application Gallery.

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