I'm a fan of the git version control system, but distributed revision control forces you to think a lot more. Today, I ran into a gotcha that I'm documenting to help the next poor schlep.I'm the only developer working on my web projects, so unless I'm merging changes across forked projects, merge conflicts don't rear their ugly head. I like using dropbox ...
Google AppEngine is about eight months old and has already spawned at least four upcoming books:
Pretty impressive for a framework that's still in "preview."
Hopefully, these books will ...
The datastore in Google App Engine can occasionally throw an error. It might be a timeout, quota violation, a result of maintenance (CapabilityDisabledError), or other exceptions thrown by the db and apiproxy_errors module.
So how do you gracefully handle datastore failures? You could just inform the user to try again later. Another approach is to use the memcache API and build a buffer for failed datastore puts. That ...
Dropbox is coming out of beta and will allow paid 50GB plans within the next week or two. I'm testing out the 50GB plan and am generally happy with the service.
SearchableModel, a nice little extension to db.Model, can be found in the App Engine SDK. It's a lite full-text index that can provide some search capability to your app. Using it is simple. When declaring your model class replace db.Model with search.SearchableModel:
from google.appengine.ext import search class Article(search.SearchableModel): some_searchable_prop = db.StringProperty() another_big_searchable = db.TextProperty() ...
Then in your handler, use the ...
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