Sunday, May 04, 2008

My obligatory Google AppEngine Hello World

I did my part--and gave Google's AppEngine a whirl. You can see my hello world app and maybe a bit more in the future. 

Thoughts? Total time from deciding to give it a try and having a deployed hello world app is 30 minutes. Includes minor bumbling on the concept of "application naming"--which if you are following the hello world tutorial by copy and paste--you'll want to make sure you change the line in app.yaml to reflect your application name (application: xxx) rather than hello world otherwise the application upload fails like:
google-app-engine usiegj00$ appcfg.py update helloworld/ Loaded authentication cookies from /Users/usiegj00/.appcfg_cookies Scanning files on local disk. Initiating update. 2008-05-04 14:27:15,191 ERROR appcfg.py:1072 An unexpected error occurred. Aborting. Error 403: --- begin server output --- You do not have permission to modify this app. --- end server output ---
I'm interested in how Google is calculating usage--and how they will bill for it in the future. I will post an update on what I find.

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