It was two years ago today that I have started developing in App Engine, been one of the first 10000, when it was released to the first 10000 developers.
Since then I have spent a lot of days and nights (well ... mostly nights) working with App Engine having seen it advancing to its present form, something I do not regret.
On this occasion I must express my many thanks to the wonderful App engine team for their efforts and the support they give to developers.
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-birthday.html
Apr 21, 2010
New Warning message in logs
Any body noticed following new warning on their logs ?
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04-20 04:02PM 48.495
This request caused a new process to be started for your application, and thus caused your application code to be loaded for the first time. This request may thus take longer and use more CPU than a typical request for your application.
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Very helpful and useful in many ways (code optimization etc.)
Oh ! just a short commend : could it be a little less verbose ? thus not waisting so much valuable space in logs database etc ?
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04-20 04:02PM 48.495
This request caused a new process to be started for your application, and thus caused your application code to be loaded for the first time. This request may thus take longer and use more CPU than a typical request for your application.
"
Very helpful and useful in many ways (code optimization etc.)
Oh ! just a short commend : could it be a little less verbose ? thus not waisting so much valuable space in logs database etc ?
Apr 14, 2010
Google Plans To Expand Cloud Computing Services
This sounds like good news for App Engine developers
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/12/google-plans-to-expand-cloud-computing-services-think-aws-on-steroids/
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/12/google-plans-to-expand-cloud-computing-services-think-aws-on-steroids/
Apr 6, 2010
Post mortem of a different kind.
Today's post has nothing to do with Application Engine neither with programming at large which are the subjects of this blog.
Or may be it has ?
My dearest brother died last Wednesday night at the age of 47.
I do regret that been occupied with work and programming, did not spent much time with him lately neither I have listened carefully on what he was trying to tell me.
Programming is work and hobby but there are lots of other things in life that we should not neglect and never let computers, social networks and all virtual paraphernalia replace real human relationships.
Apr 1, 2010
CSS Chrome now supports border-radius
Just discovered that Chrome now supports standard CSS 3 border-radius.
So no need for "-webkit-border-radius" if you target chrome.
It works on 5.0.342.7 beta Linux still have to test for other OS & versions.
So no need for "-webkit-border-radius" if you target chrome.
It works on 5.0.342.7 beta Linux still have to test for other OS & versions.
Jan 5, 2010
Geognos Help Page
Many people contacted me asking how geognos operates. Except the technicalities for which I will post some other time, I have compiled a help page which you can find here : geognos-help or you can also try it your self by visiting a country's page like: Russia or United States and play by clicking the map and the photos.
Happy coding.
Happy coding.
Jan 3, 2010
geognos
Today I published beta I of geognos application hosted in the cloud by google app engine.
You can select and visit any country from here: http://www.geognos.com , or may be take a look at my own country here: https://www.geognos.com/en/place/greece
If you do not like it you can blame only me, since I have done all the staff my self (css, Html, Python - javascript , 4 different API interface programming etc. etc.)
This site is a mashup of 4 APIS and shows textual and visual (thanks to: Google Visualization API ) information for all countries of the world. Users can navigate to different countries by selecting a country from the compo box provided in top right corner of each page or from the links provided in home page.
For each specific country a live map provided by Google Maps API v3 is included. The map provides the functionality (move, pan, zoom, etc.) of Google Maps. Right clicking on any point of the map pops up an information window displaying geographical information about this point (Latitude Longitude, PO Code, city, country etc.) User can also navigate to points of interest (capital, cities, neighboring countries etc.) of the particular country by using the selector box provided in page top.
Interesting photos from the country are displayed (courtesy of panoramio.com api) on the top right part of the page. users can view a bigger photo by clicking on one of the thumbnail photos shown in photo region. Also photo's geographical coordinates and other information is shown on the map. This information is presented translated to user's language thanks to Google AJAX Language API Clicking on the bigger photo displays a real size of the photo on top of the map region. Users can navigate to next-previous set or photos by clicking the respective arrows located at the bottom of thumbnails. Clicking on the "play" button located between the left right arrow puts the photos on a "slide mode" which is activated when user clicks on "left" - "right" button. While in "slide show" mode photos are auto-displayed until user clicks on "pause" button. Slide show is self terminated after a number of photos, in order to eliminate over-demand on the servers. Clicking on the left "=" button synchronizes photos with the contents of the map at that time and displays only photos located on the region included in the map, try this after moving - zooming the map.
You can select and visit any country from here: http://www.geognos.com , or may be take a look at my own country here: https://www.geognos.com/en/place/greece
If you do not like it you can blame only me, since I have done all the staff my self (css, Html, Python - javascript , 4 different API interface programming etc. etc.)
This site is a mashup of 4 APIS and shows textual and visual (thanks to: Google Visualization API ) information for all countries of the world. Users can navigate to different countries by selecting a country from the compo box provided in top right corner of each page or from the links provided in home page.
For each specific country a live map provided by Google Maps API v3 is included. The map provides the functionality (move, pan, zoom, etc.) of Google Maps. Right clicking on any point of the map pops up an information window displaying geographical information about this point (Latitude Longitude, PO Code, city, country etc.) User can also navigate to points of interest (capital, cities, neighboring countries etc.) of the particular country by using the selector box provided in page top.
Interesting photos from the country are displayed (courtesy of panoramio.com api) on the top right part of the page. users can view a bigger photo by clicking on one of the thumbnail photos shown in photo region. Also photo's geographical coordinates and other information is shown on the map. This information is presented translated to user's language thanks to Google AJAX Language API Clicking on the bigger photo displays a real size of the photo on top of the map region. Users can navigate to next-previous set or photos by clicking the respective arrows located at the bottom of thumbnails. Clicking on the "play" button located between the left right arrow puts the photos on a "slide mode" which is activated when user clicks on "left" - "right" button. While in "slide show" mode photos are auto-displayed until user clicks on "pause" button. Slide show is self terminated after a number of photos, in order to eliminate over-demand on the servers. Clicking on the left "=" button synchronizes photos with the contents of the map at that time and displays only photos located on the region included in the map, try this after moving - zooming the map.
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