Category: Google App Engine
Virtual File System for Google App Engine
October 23rd, 2009, 1 Comment
App Engine has a number of security restrictions that it imposes on applications. One that is often cited as a major source of frustration is the inability to read/write to a local file system. It looks like the developer community may have developed a workaround. Kyle Roche sent me a link to a GaeVFS, a [...]
Busy as a Salesforce Beaver
October 22nd, 2009, 2 Comments
A couple of people have asked me if I’m dead since my blog has been rather light for the last week or so. I actually have a full-time job and unfortunately that is getting in the way of my blogging. Work at Appirio is quite busy as I just wrapped up one of the first [...]
App Engine SDK 1.2.6 Released
October 14th, 2009, No Comments
Some cool new features were released yesterday for App Engine. : Incoming Email – You can now enable mail as an inbound service (just like XMPP) so users can email your application at whatever@yourappid.appspotmail.com. Inbound messages are converted to HTTP requests (just like XMPP) which you can receive via webhook handler. Delete an App – [...]
Google Wave and Force.com
September 29th, 2009, No Comments
Tomorrow is the big day that Google distributes 100,000 previews to people that signed up for early access. I’ve been trying to get my hands on an account for awhile and even trying to pay off Scott McMullan didn’t work. I’m keeping my fingers crossed; I’ve got some really cool robots planned out with Kyle [...]
Appirio Announces Cloudsourcing Focus
September 24th, 2009, No Comments
The Appirio CIO Blog has a great new post called, “Cloudsourcing: Where Cloud Computing Meets Outsourcing”. Some organizational changes have been to focus on this emerging segment of the cloud market. How do CIO move their IT assets to clouds like Salesforce, Amazon, and Google? What’s the roadmap look like? What are the risks? What [...]
Google Short Links
September 20th, 2009, No Comments
I found this tip on my buddy Kyle Roche’s blog this morning. It’s such a great service that I had to repost it (aka rip it off). Google has released an awesome new Labs feature called Google Short Links that allows you to easily create descriptive shortcuts to web URLs. The service (powered by App [...]
Creating a Salesforce.com Robot with Google Wave and GAE/J
September 15th, 2009, No Comments
My buddy Kyle Roche has an awesome post today on how to create a Google Wave robot on App Engine that contributes to the conversation with information from Salesforce.com using the Force.com toolkit for Google App Engine. If you are not familiar with Google Wave check out this great intro video from Google I/O. You [...]
Google App Engine Updates
September 9th, 2009, No Comments
A few days ago Google release version 1.2.5 of the App Engine SDK. A few notable features were included in the release: XMPP support for both the Python and Java SDK. This will allow you to write applications that exchange messages with any XMPP-based network, including but not limited to Google Talk. There is also [...]
Snow Leopard Breaks Google Web Toolkit
September 1st, 2009, No Comments
I installed Snow Leopard the other day in under 60 minutes without a hitch…. or so I thought. When trying to run my App Engine project with GWT, I received the following fatal error: You must use a Java 1.5 runtime to use GWT Hosted Mode on Mac OS X. I did a search and [...]
Rich Internet Applications Using Flex, Salesforce.com and Google App Engine
August 20th, 2009, 6 Comments
Cross-posted at the Appirio Technology Blog It’s fairly common these days to see Flex applications running inside Salesforce.com. But what if you’d like to run your Flex applications on another SaaS provider like Google App Engine or Amazon EC2. We are going to set up a simple Flex application that fetches Accounts and Opportunities from [...]
