Recent Posts Tagged With 'appengine'

• urlBorg: why build yet another URL shortening service?

  Posted on Tuesday May 13th, 2008 at 11:40 in gae, urlborg, appengine

  So, urlBorg has been rewritten in Python and is now hosted on Google AppEngine (make a note, the new address is urlborg.com). But why build “yet another URL shortening service”, when it’s so easy to build one? Any web developer coul...

• a suggestion for efficient and scalable counters in Datastore

  Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 05:30 in code samples, urlborg, appengine, datastore

  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying to migrate urlBorg to Google AppEngine. urlBorg needs to count many things, like clicks on a short URL, etc, so I really need a scalable and efficient way to implement counters. This is not as trivial ...

• unique integer IDs in Google datastore

  Posted on Sunday April 27th, 2008 at 01:02 in code samples, appengine, datastore

  newbie code ahead! Use at your own risk One of the first problems I faced when trying to build an application in Google AppEngine, was the lack of something like a “unique, auto_increment” column type in the datastore. How do I maintain...

• AppEngine Datastore limitations

  Posted on Friday April 25th, 2008 at 16:48 in urlborg, appengine, datastore

  I’ve been trying to decide if moving urlBorg to Google App Engine is a good idea. The pros are obvious: scalability. There are many features I’ve wanted to implement for urlBorg but never did because I’m afraid that if it turns into...