Entries Tagged as 'appengine'
New App: FriendFeed Room Directory
So my inability to discover any rooms on FriendFeed was frustrating me, so I spent a few hours and built the FriendFeed Room Directory. It’s super simple right now, I wasn’t sure exactly how many rooms there were so I decided to err on the side of simplicity - basically you can create categories and [...]
Categories: appengine · friendfeed · web app
My App Engine failings
Sigh. I have two ideas that I’m trying to turn into ???????? ????? ????????App Engine apps. Both have to do with FriendFeed, both tend to make several requests to the FriendFeed API per hit - so they are probably relatively unusual for App Engine. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem likely that they will see the light [...]
Urlfetch redirects, an App Engine mis-documentation
So I’ve spent a couple evenings working on a little App Engine project and butting heads with the urlfetch module. What I’ve been trying to do is discover what the end location is for a 3xx redirect. I finally figured it out, to my chagrin, and thought I’d post it up in case anyone else [...]
One day with App Engine and Python
So I finally decided to play around with Python and App Engine a little - had a little FriendFeed project that’s been kicking around my brain for a bit. Bear in mind I’ve done exactly one project in Python and that was over a decade ago, so, you know. This is all pretty much the [...]



