So now here we are, having tried to handle errors in Google App Engine...and failed all because silly DeadlineExceededError jumps over Exception in the inheritance chain and goes right for BaseException. How can we catch these in our handlers while staying Pythonic?

First and foremost, in the case of …

After spending a nontrivial amount of my nights and weekends working on an App Engine app, I wanted a good way to monitor the logs without checking in on them every day. After a particularly frustrating weekend of updates that exposed unnoticed bugs that had yet to be triggered by …

I have been wanting to write a post for awhile, but was travelling for a work event and while on the road I decided to be lazy.

Since I just so happen to use a few GData APIs occasionally in my day to day work, most of the post ideas …

On the (much too early) bus to work this morning, I was reading my Twitter feed and saw an interesting question from Rob Hawkes:

How do you handle config files in your apps when you use Git? I keep accidentally adding config files with sensitive data to Git. :(

— Robin Hawkes …