As a side project, I’ve been working on a mobile site to track my local bus system. I’ll have a more detailed post about that once it is a fully polished site. Essentially, the site parses some xml with longitude/latitude data and uses a maps api to display the location. All fairly simple, and it’s [...]
I’ve been playing around with Google App Engine quite a bit lately. Whenever I’d create a new project, I’d start by copying and pasting a folder called “new_project_template” which is included in the software developers kit. The template contains a bare-minimum hello world script. As I made more and more apps, I realized that I [...]
I like using App Engine’s webapp framework. It’s very simple and similar to the web.py framework. However, simple tasks such as outputting data or rendering templates require way too much boilerplate text. For example, to output a rendered template, you must type:
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template_values = {
‘greetings’: greetings,
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I made a pastebin using the webapp framework in Google App Engine. So far it supports about 11 types of syntax highlights, but I could add more if necessary. This is not as “feature-rich” as dpaste but it works. For some unknown reason, I decided to call it wepaste. Here are some sample highlights:
Python
Ruby
html
For now, [...]
