Tuesday, December 15, 2009

What Is Google App Engine?

Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users.

You can serve your app from your own domain name (such as http://www.example.com/) using Google Apps. Or, you can serve your app using a free name on the appspot.com domain. You can share your application with the world, or limit access to members of your organization.

Google App Engine supports apps written in several programming languages. With App Engine's Java runtime environment, you can build your app using standard Java technologies, including the JVM, Java servlets, and the Java programming language—or any other language using a JVM-based interpreter or compiler, such as JavaScript or Ruby. App Engine also features a dedicated Python runtime environment, which includes a fast Python interpreter and the Python standard library. The Java and Python runtime environments are built to ensure that your application runs quickly, securely, and without interference from other apps on the system.

App Engine costs nothing to get started. All applications can use up to 500 MB of storage and enough CPU and bandwidth to support an efficient app serving around 5 million page views a month, absolutely free. When you enable billing for your application, your free limits are raised, and you only pay for resources you use above the free levels.

Source: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html

Me: I think I want to explore the Google API and work on it. Lets see! :)
Now I’m all excited about my posting. HRD says they’ll convey that to us by tomorrow 5PM.
It’d be a brand new experience for sure! :) Wish me luck.

Currently: Not studying for my Comprehensive Perception (multiple-choice) exam scheduled for tomorrow and instead of that doing TP… with Google and its apps. Google Groups… Google Labs SMS Channel.. Google Notebook.. Picasa… Google Docs… and what not and now… http://goo.gl. Google is a complete package.

So, Who all want to marry Google raise your hand(s)! <<profound pun>> LOL!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

THE KNOL-EDGE survived

Now!! You can See TheKNOL online as well! (thanks to Google Docs!)

Google Defines KNOL as: (source: http://knol.google.com)

Knol - a unit of knowledge: share what you know, publish your expertise.

(So if you have Knowledge You have an Edge: I hope the Subject line makes more sense now)

Ya, we liked the name and you already know.. how big Plagiarists we all are (and so here goes the story)…

KNOL is a monthly (apparently not.. but we like calling it that).. onlineinformalfree… (and of course awesome) eMagazine (Zine) of our (engineering college) College of Engineering, Roorkee! COER (http://coe-roorkee.com)!

Powered by :D us… and Driven by a subset! <think it over>

We all took this delicious initiative (when we were in our Engineering 4th year… and were SuperVella) to bring together an informal platform for people to interact and with a added little jazz to it :-) <think: Designing>

So we are not at the college anymore.. but still remembering those days always bring smiles to our faces. What follows is a Full Tour (A Walkthrough) of the Mag (from the notices to the actual manifestation). Hope you’d like its Appeal Etc and observe it evolve! Do post back comments(and/or your KNOL**) to me / theknol.digest@gmail.com (CC) ! J It’ll keep this thing Going. So Sit back and relax… but if you can’t.. just come back at a later time.

You can view the complete editions online only or if you may want to download them as PDF… :-) Do that!

Editions:

THEKNOL1.0
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIYThlN2FiMDQtNGEzNy00YmM5LTlmNWUtZjRmZjUzMjIxODk0&hl=en

THEKNOL2.0
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIMGVhMmE1YWItNGI4YS00OThhLThhMTctODE1NTNhZjAxMzdh&hl=en

THEKNOL3.0LT
(small)
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIZmVlYjRkNWMtNmQ3ZC00OGE3LThiMGEtODg3NGJhZWEwYTQ0&hl=en

(Big: Clear Images)
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIOTU4ZmY2MGQtMmU1Ny00MDY1LTg2YjktM2NiMzIxZTE5NGVm&hl=en

My Juniors in college are still working.. on it you see! :-)
They are now also working on Yearbook’10 (just like we created Yearbook’09 for us) for the current 4th year batch!

Notices:

This was the first ever notice that told people about KNOL.
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIZGFmMTNjNzctMjFlMC00YmNlLTliZGYtMGQzZDc5M2VmOGI4&hl=en
The Second Notice.. more illustrative! :P yet confusing… :-)
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIZTA1NGU5NTEtZGMyOC00YTYxLTkxM2MtMmQ2NWMzYTQ4MDMy&hl=en
And the magazine came…! The first ever issue :-)
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oINDc0YTZlNjMtZGViMS00YmUyLTkyNTgtOGIyYzk5MmMzZDVi&hl=en
This is for the Third Issue. My Juniors worked on it.
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIYTYwODYxOWEtNDYzZC00ZDI1LWE0OTctYTlkZDExNzZhNjdj&hl=en

** Dear Alumnus, you are invited (to be part of the next edition.. and) to share with the world.. the knowledge you possess… YOUR thoughts… be it anything or nothing. :-) Do attach a recent picture of yours along… and of course we’d be glad to know :-) what you’ve been upto.

PS: Feel Free to Forward it to anyone who knows you… the college… or just probably.. to flaunt (like I did).

Nikunj Lahoti
System Engineer
Infosys Technologies Limited

Article Source: http://mrdigerati.blogspot.com
Official Blog: http://theknol.blogspot.com

Sunday, November 01, 2009

The KNOL 3.0

THE KNOL 3.0 LTS <as Anshul Calls it> is not out and people are giving reviews.

Not many people are left in the KNOL TEAM but still they managed to get this thing out… and kept the WebZine running is laudable. Well I’m yet to congratulate everyone personally. But very soon I’ll do that. :-) Great work. Finally a KNOL that has no contribution from my side. :-) Feels funny though!

You can download it here: (6MB)
http://theknol.googlegroups.com/web/KNOL_3.0_LTS_.pdf?gda=K9OEP0MAAACsefPAJvUwZ1VIWBiEjBPlCRQhP3o2gkdfY0MSTdl-jVREcrzLWup3dRr3uC1zTa4ytiJ-HdGYYcPi_09pl8N7FWLveOaWjzbYnpnkpmxcWg

My Message to the team: :-) Keep it coming.

TLS

Well… TLS is a document that is being created :-) and people are collaborating to that!
Good thing! :-)
This document once created should be given a Hard-Bound attribute and should be given back to the collaborators for cherishing it throughout their life :-)
We should totally do things like these all our lives. It's so much fun. Reading it some years down the line.. will be rewarding…Truly.

Btw: we are just left with partially 09! :-) Rest all Documented.
Have a lot of fun folks.

PS: I'm going to start reading TWILIGHT soon! :-) <I've a very bad reputation when it comes to completing a book>.
Wish me Luck!

Saturday, August 22, 2009

The rise of the Machines ;)

So.. I'm now using this very fundu thing from my Infosys Terminal.. (not so very fundu.. although)....!!
Btw... We cannot access http://blogger.com here. So its a good thing Right? :D
I still can make myself availble for you. Man!! I'm Kind. ;)