To build an App Engine webapp, you need two things: Google's App Engine SDK and release 2.5 of Python. Although you'll deploy your App Engine webapp to Google's cloud, during development, it is ...

Our live coverage of the Google App Engine launch event is here (Update: we’ve built and launched a test application here). Google isn’t just talking about hosting applications in the cloud ...

The Cloud Playground is an open-source project that includes mimic, which is a regular Python App Engine app that serves as a development server; and bliss, which is a trivial browser-based code ...

For now, Cloud Playground only supports Python 2.7 App Engine apps, and Google considers it to be an experimental service (so it could shut it down anytime). To get started, you simply head for ...

The recently announced Google App Engine allows developers to build and host Python-based web applications for free. While you might think such an tool would be welcomed by the developer community ...