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Managing Information: Data and Analysis Integration The challenge of our time today, in Computer Science at least, is our world’s data, the world’s bytes. The ratio of the world’s data that is available by online search, compared to all of the world’s data, will be one. The deep web, the hidden web, the data that [...]
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The internet’s simplest introduction to writing a facebook application with Google App Engine, in Python, with Django. So let’s start with an easy introduction to writing a facebook app with app engine. First of all, you need to sign up for an application with Facebook. You can do this here, just click “set up new [...]
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One of the nastiest things about Google App Engine is its limited functionality in certain areas. Now, I’m a huge fan of the service, but I often tell friends that I don’t think it’s feasible for very large applications to the use it (not that it isn’t brilliantly scalable, but I’m talking about an ‘application’ [...]
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In this tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to make a functional AJAX application on Google App Engine. There are two ways to do this, the first being to use a framework such as JQuery, the second being to write the javascript by hand. I will be showing you how to do both, and in [...]
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Hi. The blog you’re reading, and all of its user and content-creation functionality, is entirely written using Google App Engine (Python), with Django. In this post I write about why I decided to write my own web applications to replace every web service I use, and why I decided to do this using Google App [...]
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