GAE Blogs
I ran across two GAE blogs this weekend. Both of ‘em look pretty good, and seem to be under rather heavy development. Both are available under open source licenses.
Commenting on Potlach is provided by a commenting system developed as a proof of concept for demisauce by the same author. I’m actually fascinated by the idea, but haven’t really spent much time getting my head around it yet. Both of the above are straight up “blogs” as opposed to Monologista or Meow type of twitter micro-blogs.
Speaking of which, I noticed that on themonologista trac, they are looking for developers of client applications. So taking a hint from spaz (for twitter) and the pownce Air client, and realizing that both Air and Flex Builder are available for Linux I decided to give the tutorials a try. I finally installed Eclipse 3.3 (K/Ubuntu version is 3.2, but Flex Builder requires Eclipse 3.3) and started watching the quickstart video in creating a RIA app. It was my intention to follow along with the video, and creating the application. But no go for now.
Took me a while to figure it out, but design view mode is not currently supported by the Flex Builder for Linux alpha(it is alpha after all). But one of the very first things the video tutorial does is to go into this mode to set up the UI for the application. So for now I gave up. I did download the code but haven’t gotten around to running it in Eclipse yet.
One final thing, but on a different note, I saw that you can use google app domains for authentication on a google app engine application. So, for example, neohawk.info is registered as a google app domain. I did not that in the control panel you can click on “advanced services” and add a google app engine application using your own domain. I assumed that you had to use a google account for authentication, so I was assuming that it was a tad bit limited in terms of a closed environment (I use the term “closed” lightly). Being able to authenticate against the neohawk.info domain removes that limitation.
Ah, I’m getting sleepy. I’m not even sure if what I am writing is making any sense. I’ll post it for now, and review it again tomorrow AM.
Good night all.
