On a blogging break – playing with Google App Engine

I took my head out of Twitter and I’m taking a short break from blogging. I’m playing with Google App Engine. So far Google‘s documentation is very helpful so getting started was fairly strait forward.

Here are my ramp-up tasks:

• Read through the Getting Started section
• Ramped up on Python – very cool and easy to use scripting language
• I learned to JSON using simplejson– it works nicely with python
• I’m now adopting new Web Framework django for Python
• And I’m getting up to speed with a new data storage concept

All are great technologies.

I’m also testing the PyDev plugin for using eclipse IDE to develop for Google App engine – here are the instructions – so far so good.

Useful links:

Google App Engine and misc

• Google Code
• Mark Mail
• Viewing what’s in your local instance of the datasore

Python

• Dates and times

If you have additional useful links relevant to the technologies listed above please let me know.

*I plan to update the additional useful sources from time to time as I find more content