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Google App Engine Blog

News, notes, tips and tricks from the Google App Engine Team.


Getting Creative with App EngineDecember 22 2008
Posted by Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Team
Gregory Pennington and James Bogosian, Advertising Platform Solutions Team

When inspiration strikes, it's nice to go from concept to reality in the shortest possible amount of time. We're happy to let you know about two new tools that will help you shorten the path on App Engine from conception to clicks.

Zoho Creator

For those used to rapidly developing apps with Zoho Creator, we are happy to announce that Zoho have made it possible to deploy these apps using Google App Engine. Zoho Creator enables you to develop data backed business applications, and once you have developed your app in Creator, simply download the Python code and upload it to Google App Engine.

App Engine Site Creator

App Engine Site Creator is a lightweight content management system with a full GUI for content creation and administration. It provides a hierarchical site structure, an authentication system, user and group level access controls, file attachments and a WYSIWYG interface for editing page HTML.

The resulting managed site is designed to be themed and branded, and the back end Site Creator code was written with readability and extensibility in mind.


System Status Dashboard, Quota Details Page, and a Billing Sneak PreviewDecember 16 2008

We're excited to announce a couple new features and a preview for you today:

  • an App Engine System Status Site that monitors the latency and uptime of various components and provides real-time visibility into their performance
  • a new Quota Details Dashboard, detailing all of the resource quotas that affect your application
  • a sneak peak at our upcoming billing feature, which will enable your app to grow beyond our free quotas!

System Status Site

Salesforce.com announces Force.com for App EngineDecember 8 2008
Posted by Pete Koomen, App Engine Team

This morning, Salesforce.com announced Force.com for Google App Engine, a Python library and test suite for apps running on App Engine that enables developers to easily access the Force.com Web services API. This means that developers can now build apps that manipulate and display data stored on Force.com.

We're excited about the breadth of new applications enabled by this integration. To name just a few examples:

  • browser-based enterprise apps that help members of your organization manage contacts and orders
  • large-scale consumer apps that offer personalized experiences to your customers
  • online marketing campaigns that generate leads directly

It's fantastic to see App Engine gaining traction in the world of enterprise software--whether you want to deploy a browser-based tool to members of your organization or a personalized, customer-focused app that scales to millions of users, App Engine's ease of use and scaling power make it an ideal choice for enterprise development. With Force.com for App Engine you can now connect apps with the CRM and custom data you already store on the Force.com platform.

To learn more about Force.com for App Engine, you can peruse

End of the Year Developer RoundupDecember 5 2008
Posted by Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Team

As 2008 draws to a close, it's time for the last developer roundup of the year. In the spirit of the season, and inspired by Giftag.com, I've put together my App Engine Holiday Wish list:

1. A Geo-located Social Jukebox

Sure I can put together a list of songs I like, find out what movies are now playing by me, and always know where I'm going, but where's the application that lets me list songs for my friends to listen to around San Francisco? I'm really looking forward to this and other ideas being written for App Engine, so in the new year I can let everyone know I love to listen to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" on the Golden Gate Bridge.

2. More Python

Right now, I can back up my App Engine datastore to a MySQL database, debug my Python applications in firebug, and stay on top of all my twitters with App Engine. But I do love to flex my Python muscles, so I'm hoping more people contribute to our

SDK 1.1.7 ReleasedNovember 20 2008
Posted by Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Team

Update: This morning we released SDK 1.1.7 due to an issue with the 1.1.6 release. SDK 1.1.7 contains the fix for this issue, as well as the fixes and features listed below.

Today we released the 1.1.6 SDK. You can download it on our Google hosting project, and peruse the release notes for more details on the release.

This release contains some notable new features, including several to our datastore:

  • You can now sort and filter on an entity's key
  • You can now delete an entity directly using its key, without fetching the Model object.
  • If you specify a key_name when creating a Model, its key will now be available before you call put()
  • URLFetch calls made in the SDK now have a 5 second timeout, matching production

Also, it contains a number of issue fixes, including the following: