Tag: google appengine

14 million ways to skin a cat – web programming

(note: I don’t support the  skinning of cats)

Web Programming Languages

While I’m relatively new to web programming, there is a fairly large barrier to entry to this wonderful world of creation for someone like myself. You see, I like to choose the best tool for a job and get to work. The problem is, there are too many damn good tools for web programming, and I’m not knowledgeable enough to decide on which is the right one to use for any given project.

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Practical Web Programming with the friendfeed API & Google App Engine

Long Day Coding

Had a helluva weird 17 hour coding spree yesterday. By setting up and slightly modifying the friendfeed application example, I nearly drove one of the super helpful friendfeed developers bonkers (yeah I’m that bad with questions). The plus side, I have a basic handle on the Google App Engine (GAE), Python, Django html scripting and jury rigging eclipse projects to run php (why oh why doesn’t GAE support PHP). (more…)