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share11 with Google AppEngine

While I was boring myself to death last weekend and while everybody was talking about it I came up with a sample application.

Now I can talk about Google AppEngine as well :-)

It is simply a pastebin using the DataStore API, the webapp framework, the Users API, pygments and Django templates.

It is heavily inspired by http://dpaste.com

http://share11.appspot.com

The great thing? It took me less than an afternoon (mostly reading the framework docs) and it is ~200 LOC. Even greater? One shell command to upload and deploy :-)

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This was written by Lawrence. Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008, at 1:19 pm. Filed under Everything. Tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
  • http://www.defuze.org Sylvain Hellegouarch

    I guess the question is “Would it have been quicker to develop without GAE?” ;)

  • http://www.oluyede.org/blog/ Lawrence

    @Sylvain: maybe the use case is too small but I have to say that it was really quick despite the time to learn the tools. If you see the source code you can understand that is very handy.

  • http://www.defuze.org Sylvain Hellegouarch

    I will look at it for sure. Simple apps like that are great to learn by the code. I’m actually even more impressed by the UI and your CSS ninja skills :)

  • http://www.oluyede.org/blog/ Lawrence

    The deployment is really, really handy. My UI and CSS skills are not that much, I use blueprint CSS as you can see. Very few programmers are good or great with CSS and colors. I’m not one of them I think, but I can still learn CSS and talk the same language of designers :)

  • http://etank.wordpress.com etank

    Very nice. I think this is one of the best pastebin apps I have seen so far.

  • http://blog.copperred.net Aleksandrs Zdančuks

    Ме is impressed with this work. How did you get an invitation to appspot.com? I’ve pressed ‘Definitly’ the first day they announced a public use and still no information.