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AJAX with Google App Engine

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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 such a way that a beginner can make sense of it easily, while more advanced users of App Engine can also benefit.

So I’m going to split the tutorial up into two parts, and each part will have a separate example for you to work with. Here are the bookmarks to each section, and you can decided which way you want to do this. Personally, I find JQuery easier, but it will require that you learn some new things if you are only familiar with Javascript.
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Facebook Apps with Google App Engine

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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 application” once you’ve added the facebook developer application, and give them your preferences. You should then come to a page full of settings, with titles like “Essential Information”, and “Basic Information”. Use the navigation on the left to edit the “canvas” settings. Keep this page open.

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App Engine Datastore Workarounds and Search

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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’ like twitter, or a huge site like Amazon.) An example of an area with such lack of functionality, although remarkable in its own right, is the App Engine datastore.

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Google App Engine and My Mission

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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 Engine.

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