My latest project for Twitter. Try it out! http://shoppertalk.appspot.com It’s unbreakable. Ok, that’s not true, but I do need some testers. It’s a Django app running on Google App Engine. It utilizes the Twitter api and their OAuth implementation (so you can log in with your Twitter account). Currently only the Amazon product catalog is […]
Continue reading...18. June 2010
The latest bulkloader script (api version 1.3.4) does a much better job of exporting data when you auto generate a .yaml file. However it doesn’t handle the re-import of lists by default (it just treats them as strings). You can add an inline lambda function to the .yaml file to fix this. This handles lists […]
Continue reading...18. April 2010
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If using Python, you can delete an index by first removing the entry in your index.yaml file, and then updating your site. Then you must issue this command: appcfg.py vacuum_indexes myapp/ With Django (what I am using), you use this command: manage.py vacuum_indexes What is nice about the process is that, for each index that […]
Continue reading...13. April 2010
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I started getting this error in Windows when running ‘manage runserver’ in django on Google AppEngine: appcfg.py update check failed: EOF occurred in violation of protocol This error is related to not having the SSL module for python installed. The easy fix is to install it by running “easy_install ssl” from the command prompt. However, […]
Continue reading...8. March 2010
You might get this message in Google AppEngine when sending an email message and specifying a custom from address. To get it to work you must add the address as a developer for your application (or use the email address you signed up with). Steps to Add a Developer Email Address: Log in to your […]
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6. December 2009
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