In a previous post I discussed a recent brain teaser I had come across:
Find a 10-digit number, where each digit represents the number of that ordinal number in the whole number. So, the first digit represents the number of 0's in the whole 10 digits. The second digit represents …
My colleague
+Takashi Matsuo and I recently
gave a talk about using
OAuth2Decorator (from the google-api-python-client
library) with
request handlers in
Google App Engine. Shortly after, a
Stack Overflow question
sprung up asking about the right way to use the decorator and, as a
follow up, if the decorator could …
Recently, my colleague +Fred Sauer and I gave a tech talk called "Last Across the Finish Line: Asynchronous Tasks with App Engine". This is part three in a three part series where I will share our learnings and give some helpful references to the App Engine documentation.
Check out the …
Recently, my colleague +Fred Sauer and I gave a tech talk called "Last Across the Finish Line: Asynchronous Tasks with App Engine". This is part two in a three part series where I will share our learnings and give some helpful references to the App Engine documentation.
Check out the …
Recently, my colleague +Fred Sauer and I gave a tech talk called "Last Across the Finish Line: Asynchronous Tasks with App Engine". This is part one in a three part series where I will share our learnings and give some helpful references to the App Engine documentation.
Before I …
I happen to be a big fan of the deferred library for both Python runtimes in Google App Engine. If an application needs to queue up work, breaking the work into easy to understand units by writing worker methods and then deferring the work into tasks is a breeze using …
I was recently playing around with some loan data and only happened to have the term (or length, or duration) of the loan, the amount of the recurring payment (in this case monthly) and the remaining principal owed on the loan. I figured there was an easy way to get …
Well, it's been a bit crazy and I haven't written a blog post in ages. I have several brewing, but had just been too busy at work (and a ton of travel for personal fun) to really have the excess time to write.
This return post will not have much …
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 …Being unable to completely give up math for computers, I am naturally drawn to Project Euler and as a result solved a ridiculous number of the problems posted there while learning Python. A few months ago (March 13), after reading Secrets of a Javascript Ninja, I decided to begin converting …