Publishing

No problema with the installation. Just follow the indication and remember to change the app.yaml and match the google application id with the local application name.

The first version is now online:  http://softgens-ghome.appspot.com/

Hereunder an important part of the terms:

'...the Service is provided to you without charge for up to 500MB of disk storage, 10GB incoming bandwidth per day, 10GB outgoing bandwidth per day, 200 million megacycles of CPU per day and 2,000 emails per day...'

That means that the hosting now is free for a small/medium site. If you have an application you have a risk to use a close & proprietary enviroment, but for a static site now we have a great hosting provider.

Step one

The first step it's easy. A simple jump to the Google App Engine an you can find all the informations you need to install

• The python language
• The Google AppEngine

For the next step, Eclipse installation, I decided to use a YouTube video. But that was an error and I spent sometime to found it.

To save time remember

• The right version of eclipse is the Classic One
• At 4:16 of the video the right line to add is "c:\program files\google\google_appengine\dev_appserver.py ." (the fullstop is missing)

The installation was easy but not at the Microsoft level. The price you need to pay for the combination of several environment.

The basic idea

Cloud Computing: this is the what everybody is speaking about. Can you avoid to try the google answer to the buzz word of the moment if the web is your work? No of course. So let's start with the building of a new web site using the Google AppEngine.

Before starting one note. Who is writing is a happy Microsoft programmer and so the point of view can be different from an open source fan.