The Usware Blog – Django Web Development
Building Amazing Webapps
From the category archives:
Twitter’s robust REST API enables building of good applications that leverage its increasingly large and real-time data.
Google’s cloud system App Engine not only provides a scalable platform for deploying applications, but also proves to be economically viable because of its pay per resource usage model and a large free quota.
Little wonder then, there are increasingly [...]
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I wrote a new tutorial on building a search engine using Appengine, and Yahoo Search API here. This uses pure Appengine API, and not Django, and is a tutorial on how to use Appengine without Django.
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I have posted two Tutorials for Using Django with Appengine.
For people who do not know Django For people who already know Django see what we build in this tutorial
And here a few good links about the topic.
James Bennet tells exactly why Appengine and Django are not so good together. Ian Bicking has an interesting take on [...]
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We are hard at work building 42topics.com, and are looking at the best places to deploy this. So when I heard about Appengine, with out of box Django support(gasp!) I was delighted. After using it for a day, and posting a tutorial, I am so disappointed.
Peeves in no particular order.
Appengine is a very constrained environment, [...]
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Google launched their EC2 competitor, Appengine yesterday, and all hell broke loose. And in about 24 hours, the 10,000 accounts were used up. Currently it is tied to only working with python, and Django 0.96.1 works out of the box.
The Good
Python powered. Django works out of the box. No sysadmining chores. Promise of infinite scalability with no [...]
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