Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Everyone loves conspiracy theories, so I thought I would share the latest. Some of the developers who entered Google's Android Developer Challenge (ADC) are accusing Google of giving MIT favorable treatment and an unfair advantage. Claims include extending the contest around MIT's class schedule, providing students with devices ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
To allow for custom error pages (404,500) in Django/Google App Engine all you need is this bit of middle-ware that stubs out the request class for you so that it doesn't blow up.
Add your custom templates to your template directory and name them 404.html, 500.html etc.
Paste the following into middleware/errorpages.py
class ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
I'm used to running mange.py in my Django apps and I kept forgetting the name of the Google App Engine equivalents. My script only knows how to do two things at the moment, "runserver" and "publish" but now I can manage everything the way I'm accustomed to.
Update: Aprill ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I'm really digging the concept that is Google App Engine, but I think they a little bit of work to do before I would be willing to put any effort into porting to their platform. Their marketing points for this include the fact that it allows you to build, ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
I just learned about Google App Engine a couple of hours ago and I have to say I'm pretty excited about what their doing. I really like the fact that they didn't go out and try to invent their own IDE and scripting language. I'm still really reluctant ...
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