Steven Osborn
"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code".

Custom error pages in GAE/Django

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 ...

Django manage.py wrapper script for Google App Engine

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 ...

Google App Engine Limitations

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, ...

Google App Engine SDK

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 ...

Framework Envy

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

I'm typically a PHP guy. I wrote my first web page using PHP3 and have created some pretty robust websites since then and for the most part it's been a pleasure to work with. I also have a bit of experience using Zend Framework which among other things has ...