Google App Engine News & Articles

Everybody knows Google as a search engine. Everyone in this industry knows Google also does lots of other interesting things, from Google Earth to Gmail. What is less known is the wealth of resources and tools that Google provides for website development. Let’s have a look at the most useful tools Google provides to help you build your next website.

Really, what is it with giants and their adoration for beanstalks? Amazon (news, site) has moved up the infrastructure stack and announced the beta release of its Platform as a Service (PaaS), Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. The service makes it easier to manage and deploy applications on Amazon Web Service (AWS) and is free. Will the sprouting of Beanstalk over shadow PaaS competition?

Phew. The Google I/O Conference in San Francisco ended yesterday, and just like most of you we've been reeling from information overload. In case you caved and blinked at any point over the last 48 hours, here are the highlights:  

With Google I/O happening right now, we all knew there would be lots of new things coming from Google. We also all know how much the company wants to lead in the enterprise over Microsoft. So it should not really be surprising that they now have a business edition of their hosted application environment, Google App Engine. The question is, will anyone buy it? 

According to a recent survey by Evans Data Corp, Microsoft .NET was voted the best overall framework by the developers who use it, beating out Google App Engine, Ruby on Rails and others.

If you are just getting into the web development business and you want to build cloud-based applications, there's no better place to start than with Google. The Google App Engine (news, site) is Google's infrastructure for building and running cloud-based applications.

While there's a lot of documentation on developing using the Google App Engine on Google's website itself, there's another way to learn how to develop these applications - where you are a beginner or an expert.

O'Reilly has released the book Using Google App Engine - Start Building and Running Web Apps on Google's Infrastructure. The book is written by Charles Severance, Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, and someone who has extensive experience with the development languages used to write Google Apps.

What will you learn? You will learn:

• Web programming and the move to develop cloud-based applications
• The basic technologies used to develop Google Apps including Python, HTML and CSS
• How to Use the Google App Engine Datastore
• How to Implement Caching and Use Cookies and Session
• Installing and Running the App Engine on XP, Vista, Mac and Linux
• and much more

The book is designed for beginners, but offers information that will benefit even the more experienced Google App developer.

Pick up your copy of Using Google App Engine on O'Reilly for US$ 29.99.

Two major themes on the web today are interoperability and sharing. It's one thing to create a great application or service, but "walled gardens" are looked down upon on the new "social" web.

This was probably the motivation behind Zoho's latest announcement. The company has released news that applications developed by users in Zoho Creator can now be deployed into the Google App Engine.

Remember that Web 2.0 Google Developer Event we were telling you about? You know the one where you can learn all about web development the Google way? Well there’s a reason for you to attend that event for sure now…

Google has just released, in private beta, a new service called the Google App Engine. Now you host your web applications on Google’s servers and get all the benefits of a fully integrated application environment.

But there’s a catch…