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On the day Google App Engine was released, I downloaded the application to give it a whirl and despite following the video, my application didn’t work the way it did in the demo video. Well, today I gave it another whirl and not being as tired as I was the other day, I actually decided to try to compile the file using the full file path instead of just typing in
dev_appengine helloworld
I tried
dev_appengine.py /Users/Eapen/Desktop/helloworld/
and whoa it worked! (BTW, I was testing on a Mac as well)
Loading http://localhost:8080 showed my “hello world” application. Now I can finally try some of the other demos on it. It really is an interesting concept and I can see it taking off and posing a threat to Amazon’s S3 and EC2 once Google introduces more languages into the mix.
In other news, Google seems to have finally fixed their Google Analytics ecommerce tracking which for the longest time was not tracking IE6 orders (at least when using the new urchin code).
I should get back to playing and testing with the NextGenGallery plugin for Wordpress. I am really impressed and although I saw one user’s comments about how Wordpress’s built in gallery system is really awesome I haven’t seen anything great unless I am completely missing it.
I am looking forward to tomorrow’s Tekzilla since Patrick Norton finally got Veronica Belmont as a co-host. I would have liked to see Leah Culver also on the show but I guess she is too busy running Pownce. I just wish Tekzilla would follow up on my request to show the usage of PS3 as a media center.
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| Patrick Norton | Veronica Belmont | Leah Culver |
