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GoogleAppEngineLauncher can display the local log file of my app while it is running on my Mac during development. However, I can't change the font size there so I would like to use the tail command to watch the log file myself.

It's a shame but I can't find the log files. They are not under /var/log/, ~/Library/Logs or /Library/Logs. Do you know where they are?

(Maybe there are no physical files, just the stdout of the python development environment and so the log is only available in the launcher application.)

I am learning Google App Engine / Python and I love it. Unfortunately I am not allowed to use my own computer in the office and not allowed to install anything on the corporate machine.

It would be so great to have an online IDE for Google App Engine where I could play with my Python code using any browser, including the one on my iPad.

Maybe http://www.devunity.com/ will be an online IDE for GAE some day. Do you know any existing way to program GAE in a browser?

A new post today with title What's Next on MacroMates official blog states (bold emphasis by me):

There has been a lot of speculation and trepidation about the future of TextMate recently, mostly about whether there will be another major release. Work on 2.0 began and while we wish it could have been completed faster we are very pleased with how it is turning out. Development has reached a point finally where we can make an announcement:

There will be a public alpha release this year, before Christmas, for registered users.

This is just an extension to Nick Johnson's excellent code to address the problems highlighted by Amir in the comments:

1. The db.Key value of the ReferenceProperty is no longer retrieved via an unnecessary roundtrip to the datastore.
2. You can now specify whether you want to skip DateTime properties with the auto_now and/or auto_now_add flag.

Here's the updated code:

def clone_entity(e, skip_auto_now=False, skip_auto_now_add=False, **extra_args):
  """Clones an entity, adding or overriding constructor attributes.

  The cloned entity will have exactly the same property values as the original
  entity, except where overridden. By default it will have no parent entity or
  key name, unless supplied.

  Args:
    e: The entity to clone
    skip_auto_now: If True then all DateTimeProperty propertes will be skipped which have the 'auto_now' flag set to True
    skip_auto_now_add: If True then all DateTimeProperty propertes will be skipped which have the 'auto_now_add' flag set to True
    extra_args: Keyword arguments to override from the cloned entity and pass
      to the constructor.
  Returns:
    A cloned, possibly modified, copy of entity e.
  """

  klass = e.__class__
  props = {}
  for k, v in klass.properties().iteritems():
    if not (type(v) == db.DateTimeProperty and ((skip_auto_now and getattr(v, 'auto_now')) or (skip_auto_now_add and getattr(v, 'auto_now_add')))):
      if type(v) == db.ReferenceProperty:
        value = getattr(klass, k).get_value_for_datastore(self)
      else:
        value = v.__get__(self, klass)
      props[k] = value
  props.update(extra_args)
  return klass(**props)

The first if expression is not very elegant so I appreciate if you can share a better way to write it.

webapp2.uri_for() assumes that you are in a web request context and it fails because it cannot find the request object.

Instead of working around this you could think of your application as a black box and call it using literal URIs, like '/' as you mention it. After all, you want to simulate a normal web request, and a web browser will also use URIs and not internal routing shortcuts.

Using webapp2 I create unit tests for a form where there are checkboxes for votes so multiple values can be posted for the vote field and they are retrieved via request.POST.getall('vote'):

<input type="checkbox" name="vote" value="Better">
<input type="checkbox" name="vote" value="Faster">
<input type="checkbox" name="vote" value="Stronger">

In the unit test I tried passing a list:

response = app.get_response('/vote',
  POST={'vote': [u'Better', u'Faster', u'Stronger']},
  headers=[('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8')]
)

But looks like it's simply converted to a string:

votes = self.request.POST.getall('vote')
# => [u"[u'Better', u'Faster', u'Stronger']"]

How can I pass multiple values for vote that will be retrieved as a list via request.POST.getall()?

I am learning the webapp2 framework with its powerful Route mechanism.

My application is supposed to accept URIs like these:

/poll/abc-123
/poll/abc-123/
/poll/abc-123/vote/       # post new vote
/poll/abc-123/vote/456    # view/update a vote

Polls may optionally be organized into categories, so all the above should work also like this:

/mycategory/poll/abc-123
/mycategory/poll/abc-123/
/mycategory/poll/abc-123/vote/
/mycategory/poll/abc-123/vote/456

My incorrect configuration:

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
    webapp2.Route('/<category>/poll/<poll_id><:/?>', PollHandler),
    webapp2.Route('/<category>/poll/<poll_id>/vote/<vote_id>', VoteHandler),
], debug=True)

Question: How could I fix my configuration?

If possible it should be optimized for GAE CPU-time/hosting fee. For example, it may be faster if I add two lines for each entry: one line with category and another one without category...

I am a systems analyst focusing on interaction design and usability, normally working on web applications (using my Mac). However, currently I am in a project team working on a legacy application which has a Windows Forms-based front-end.

I try to simplify and clean up the interface but given my web background it's quite frustrating to work within the strict constraints of WinForms and DevExpress 8.3 controls. (WPF would be great but it is not an option: the company has lots of off-shore users logged in remotely to virtual machines. WPF was tested several times and it failed. Windows XP and IE6 are still on all workstations.)

It would be great to see some good examples for elegant UI design for complex forms with lots of input fields in different categories and groups, including read-only sections with meta-data. It should not be fancy, just simple, slick and clean. Do you happen to have some good examples?

Looks like there's no real online solution at the moment. I still think that it would be great to share simple examples and test out bugs without having to register a new application yourself.

However, it turns out to be quite comfortable to access my home computer via my 3G iPad using the Screens VNC app through an SSH tunnel. I set the computer's screen resolution to 1024×768 and I can quite comfortably use it to try out things when I have some free time. Not perfect because full keyboard support is missing but very powerful and usable.

I would like to use a string that was input by the user in a web form as part of a key name:

user_input = self.request.POST.get('foo')
if user_input:
  foo = db.get_or_insert(db.Key('Foo', user_input[:100], parent=my_parent))

Is this safe? Or should I do some inexpensive encoding or hash? If yes, which one?

It is possible to configure the individual handlers to require HTTPS in the app.yaml file in the WEB-INF folder as described here: Java Application Configuration Using app.yaml - Google App Engine.

You just have to add these words:

secure: always

Then if a user tries to access the URL with HTTP she will be automatically redirected to HTTPS. Pretty cool.

However, as Yuval writes, this works only if you use the *.appspot.com domain provided by Google.

I think I had the same question, and got an answer: Where does GoogleAppEngineLauncher keep the local log files? (It's a Mac, not Ubuntu, but otherwise the question seems to be similar.)

In short: it turns out that these logs are not saved to a physical file but you can modify the source code to get this result. Details are described at the above link.

Did you try this already?

{{ a.name_is_x('www') }}

Talán nem teljesen fair végleges korrektúra előtti könyvfordításba belerúgni, de nem tudok elmenni mellette. A HVG gondozásában megjelenő Steve Jobs életrajzból ízelítőként közzétett első hat oldalon akkora fájdalmas tévedések, félrefordítások és simán esetlenül letükörfordított mondatok vannak, hogy hacsak a második kör korrektúra nem jelent egyben teljes újraírást is, a kész könyvet maximum humorforrásként szabad megvenni. Bár biztosan szórakoztató lenne egyenként belekötni minden apróságba, most csak azt a bekezdést idézem, aminél szó szerint felordítottam:

„Emberként mindig úgy gondoltam magamra, mint egy gyerekre, aki szereti az elektronikát – mondta. – Aztán olvastam valamit, amit egyik hősöm, Edwin Land a Polaroidtól, mondott. Arról, hogy milyen fontosak azok az emberek, akik az emberség és a tudomány kereszteződésében állnak, és úgy határoztam, ez az, amit csinálni akarok”. Olyan volt, mintha az életrajzához akart volna témákat ajánlani.

Izgalmas a kreativitás, ami akkor bújik elő, amikor egy erős egyéniségben az emberség és a tudomány egymással találkozik. Ez érdekelt a leginkább akkor is, amikor Franklin és Einstein életrajzait megírtam, és meggyőződésem, hogy ez lesz a XXI. század innovációs gazdaságának is a kulcseleme.

Na de mi is ez az emberség amiről beszél? Vegyük elő az eredeti szöveget és találjuk meg a képen elrejtett tíz apró különbséget:

“I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics,” he said. “Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that’s what I wanted to do.” It was as if he were suggesting themes for his biography (and in this instance, at least, the theme turned out to be valid). The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and I believe that it will be a key to creating innovative economies in the twenty-first century.

Nem látok bele a könyvfordító-ipar működésébe, szóval persze, a kibicnek semmi se drága, de emberségszakos egyetemistaként azért fáj, hogy egy, a jelek szerint fontosnak tartott életrajzot egy se magyarul, se angolul nem tudó fordítóra bíztak. Igazán kár érte.

(Zárójel: ezt a ‘szellemtudományok és a természettudományok/technológia határán‘ című dumát ugyanúgy nagy kanállal nyaltam be és vettem át hitvallásomként, ahogy annó a Think Differentet is, pedig valójában ugyanolyan bullshit duma mindkettő. De olyan szép!)

Fürkészőn nézett egész este. A keddi társaság vidámabbnál is vidámabb volt, de ő csak néha kapcsolódott a beszélgetésbe. Nem dohányzott, nem ivott, bár szomorú sem volt. Csendesen, kedélyesen figyelt minket, sőt, amikor végre jó zenét kezdtek játszani, ő volt az első, akit táncba lehetett vinni. Igaz, közben sem beszélt sokat, viszont a fürkészése felejthetetlen volt. Nem tudtam eldönteni, mit kutakodik a szemével, hiába firtattam, csak mosolygott szépen.
Ugye, van az a fajta tekintet, amelyből oly sok van. Tudod. Aztán van a másik: az üveges. Ebből még több. De van ez a fürkésző, amit nehezen lehet megfejteni, hiszen ő fürkészik, nem én. Illetve ha én fürkészek, az olyan, mintha a tükörbe néznék (majdnem). Azonban kedd este még nem látott tekintettel lettem gazdagabb.
Nem arról faggatott hang nélkül, tetszik-e nekem, nem arról, hogy mit csinálok másnap. Nem, ennél sokkal komolyabb gondolatot láttam a szemében, és félelmet: egyszerűen nem meri megkérdezni. Nos, nem hagytam szegényt. Addig rohamoztam, mire kimondta. Elmesélte, hogy az ő vonatkoztatási rendszerében ez az alappont, innen indul ki és ide fut be minden. Sőt, még azt is tudja, kevesen vannak akik így gondolkoznak, és hogy szinte senki nem érti meg őt. Fülig érő szájjal ígértem, hogy ha valaki, akkor én biztosan nem botránkozom meg, csak bátran, bátran! Ünnepi pillanat következett, hirtelen eltűnt minden fürkészés a szeméből. Kicsit fátyolos lett, mondhatnám, tündérien csillogó. Megfogta a kezemet, és megkérdezte: "Te kire szavaztál?"

Apple:

The Apple Lossless Audio Codec project contains the sources for the ALAC encoder and decoder. Also included is an example command line utility, called alacconvert, to read and write audio data to/from Core Audio Format (CAF) and WAVE files. A description of a ‘magic cookie’ for use with files based on the ISO base media file format (e.g. MP4 and M4A) is included as well.

Apache-licensed.

IT managers’ thinking is influenced by a myriad of business factors, including research studies advising them not to adopt Apple’s computers. But their attitude is changing as Forrester Research, one of the most outspoken proponents of the Mac-free business environment, now backpedals on their 2008 report which called for a total banishment of Macs in the workplace – even for the most mundane tasks such as handling email.

According to the Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt, a new Forrester survey (available for sale on the corporate card here) of 590 IT managers, Mac users comprise “the 17 percent of information workers who use new technologies and find innovative ways to be more productive and serve customers more effectively”. Wow, talk about change in stance. But wait, there’s more. “Mac users are your HEROes and you should enable them not hinder them”, the report concludes, HEROes being a Forrester acronym for Highly Empowered and Resourceful Operatives.

Just like with iPhone, “Macs are being freewheeled into the office” by corporate higher-ups – typically executives, sales reps and other workaholics – who rely on MacBook Pro machines rather than Windows notebooks which “are slowing them down”:

Employees want their PCs to boot in 10 seconds, not 10 minutes, and they don’t want to have to get a cup of coffee while opening a 20 MB spreadsheet in Excel. They’re drawn to uncluttered Macs — especially those with solid-state drives, which are more responsive and boot in seconds.

That, and the looks…

As you could imagine, this is also a question of pride and ego for those well-paid suits who spare no cost shying away from cheapo Windows PCs in favor of Apple’s aluminum-clad machines that look business and ooze class:

These power brokers don’t want to show up to a meeting with a plastic laptop that sends the subliminal message that they aren’t prosperous enough to afford something nicer.

Steve Jobs vividly explained his annoyance with corporate IT managers who make purchasing decisions in a fireside chat with the Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg at the D8 conference:

What I love about the consumer market and I always hated about the enterprise market is we come up with a product, we try to tell everybody about it and every person votes for it themselves. They vote yes or no,” Jobs said. The enterprise market, it’s not so simple – the people that use the product don’t decide for themselves. The people that make those decisions sometimes are confused.

The last line earned Apple’s then CEO a loud belly-rumbling laughter of approval from the audience.

Image credit: Asa Mathat | AllThingsDigital

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I'm not totally sure what the occasion is, but there sure does seem to be a ton of sales going on this week. Perhaps it's some pre-Halloween celebrating, or maybe developers have seen the number of new iPhones sold this month and want to capitalize on all of the potential new iOS gamers. Whatever the reason though, I don't think anyone will argue with getting some great deals on some new games. Without further ado, here's a list of some recent price drops and freebies from the past 24 hours:

• Reckless Getaway, $2.99 → FREE (Universal) - [Review] - [Forum Thread]
• To-Fu 2, 99¢ → FREE (Universal) - [Review] - [Forum Thread]
• League of Evil, $1.99 → 99¢ (Universal) - [Review] - [Forum Thread]
• Tactical Soldier: Undead Rising, $4.99 → $2.99 (Universal) - [Review] - [Forum Thread]
• Hypership Out of Control, 99¢→ FREE (Universal) - [Review] - [Forum Thread]
• Joining Hands, $2.99 → 99¢ (Universal) - [Review] - [Forum Thread]
• Chicken Balls, 99¢ → FREE - [Forum Thread]
• Chicken Balls HD, $1.99 → FREE - [Forum Thread]
• Puzzle Quest Chapter 1, $1.99 → FREE - [Forum Thread]
• Puzzle Quest Chapter 1 & 2, $4.99 → $1.99 - [Forum Thread]
• Puzzle Quest HD, $4.99 → $1.99 - [Forum Thread]

A couple of things about the list above. First of all, all the versions of the original Puzzle Quest games have been updated with iOS 5 support and visual enhancements (including Retina Display support), as well as have been tuned up in the way of bug fixes. Second, Tactical Soldier: Undead Rising is due to get a humongous update with a brand new campaign available via IAP, and we'll be giving that a spin and will report back on it soon. But, the sale is supposed to only last until the update hits, so if you have any interest then you should definitely jump on it quickly.

In fact, that pretty much goes for every sale, as the prices can fluctuate on a whim. Make sure to jump at the chance to grab what interests you before these sales run out, and always keep a copy of the AppShopper [Free] app on your device to stay on top of the constantly changing App Store.

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TechCrunch is reporting that Nintendo's exclusivity with the Professor Layton series is ending and one of the first things developer Level-5 will be doing is releasing a new iOS game called Layton Brothers: Mystery Room. Unfortunately, details further than that are non-existent at this point. We'll just have to wait and see on pricing and availability, as well as how the content of Mystery Room will compare to previous installments in the Layton franchise.

What has me leaning back in my chair and contemplatively puffing my proverbial pipe with this news is the fact that the Professor Layton games are by far the DS's most successful series– Both critically and commercially. If you follow TouchArcade, you no doubt remember the various pieces we've done on Nintendo such as "Nintendo Facing Investor Pressure to Bring Games to iPhone" analyzing the puzzling future of the gaming giant.

I don't think it's much of a stretch to say that the Professor Layton series brought a bunch of players to the Nintendo DS, and while I'm sure the DS still would have been a successful platform without it, it's definitely not a good sign to see developers anxious to jump off the exclusivity ship with the big N.

These are interesting times, indeed. *puffs pipe*

Update: Here's the (non-English) trailer-

Camera+’s founder Lisa Bettany has posted (via Gizmodo) photos showing the huge improvement the iPhone’s camera has seen over the years. While we didn’t realize it at the time, the original iPhone looks very blurry (especially in macro). Now the iPhone 4S has point-and-shoot quality with awesome lighting. Another after the break:

Setting aside the claim of analysts that Apple "missed" earnings last quarter, Apple sold record numbers of Macs (4.9 million) and iPads (11.1 million). During a conference call with analysts earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked about "cannibalization" -- the thought that increased sales of one type of product will impact sales of another. In this case, will iPad sales negatively affect Macintosh sales?

I do believe that we're seeing cannibalization. I think that it's showing up in 2 ways. I think that some people are electing to buy an iPad rather than a Mac. However, I believe a materially larger number of people are electing to buy an iPad instead of a Windows-based PC. And so I think we are overwhelmingly coming out very, very well in that cannibalization question. And I would point out that despite that, the Mac had its best quarter by far ever last quarter. And so even with having the best quarter on iPad with some cannibalizations in Mac, the Mac has its best quarter ever, which is almost unbelievable. And so with cannibalization like this, I hope it continues.*

There are some customers which we chose not to serve. We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that. But we can continue to deliver greater and greater value to those customers that we choose to serve. And there’s a lot of them. We’ve seen great success by focusing on certain segments of the market and not trying to be everything to everybody. So I think you can expect us to stick with that winning strategy and continue to try to add more and more value to those products in those customer bases we choose to serve.

Sometimes Google seems to do some extraordinary acrobatics just to prove it isn’t Apple.

Speaking at the All Things Digital conference in Asia yesterday, Andy Rubin made it a point out their difference in philosophy.

1. He doesn’t believe in tablet-specific apps. All apps should work on a phone and scale up.

2. He doesn’t believe the phone should be an assistant. “You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone — you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone,” he said.

Statements like these diminish Google, mostly because they fly in the face of common sense. Rubin makes it sound like it’s more important to dismiss Apple’s advances than it is to move forward.

His view on tablet-specific apps appears to be a defense for the Android Marketplace having so few of them. That number has been cited as anywhere from 300 to 3,000 — whatever, it’s way less than Apple’s 140,000.

Obviously, many apps can scale perfectly well from a phone to a tablet if they’re written to do so. Just as obviously, there’s a big difference between a 4-inch screen and a 10-inch screen. Though many apps can successfully scale, common sense says that a bigger screen opens up new possibilities. Otherwise, we’d all be running phone apps on our 27-inch screens too.

To be dismissive of Siri is to appear almost Luddite-ish. Even in its beta form, Siri is shaping up to be a monster hit. Again, common sense. It’s infinitely easier to say “Set alarm for 8am” than it is to go through the normal routine. Controlling the phone’s more advanced capabilities the same way feels nothing less than miraculous. And phones are just the start.

Apple didn’t denigrate Android’s superior voice recognition capability, they pushed it to a much higher level — the ability to intelligently interpret words to initiate actions. You’re a smart guy, Andy, but to dismiss this kind of leap with comments like “you shouldn’t be communicating with the phone” is pretty embarrassing.

Common sense says one other thing, too. Not too far in the future, Android will feature a built-in intelligent assistant. It may even help you explore Android’s library of made-for-tablet apps.

Shawn Blanc:

Two little-known fields in iPhone contact cards are the Phonetic First and Last Names. Fill them in to help Siri understand your requests better and to keep Siri from mispronouncing the names of your friends and family.

The fields aren’t new, but their usefulness for Siri is.

1. Demonstrate from the top that high quality and attention to detail are prioritized and appreciated above everything else, including being the first to market, having the most features, or having the most aggressive prices. If you can get those as well, that’s great, but quality will not be sacrificed to do so.
2. Instill these values in your staff. If you can’t, hire a staff for which you can. Better yet, hire a staff for which you don’t need to.
3. Aggressively pursue simplification, elegance, craftsmanship, and the highest-class user experiences in the product line. Ruthlessly cut or hold features or entire products that aren’t good enough.
4. Make it pretty.

How not to bring good design to a platform

1. Skip steps 1–3 above.

A Canon bejelentette az új csúcsmodelljét, ami az EOS-1D Mark IV-et váltja, ez lesz a Canon EOS-1D X:

Rövid specifikációk:

• 18 megapixel full-frame (eddig a 2007-es EOS-1Ds MK III volt a full-frame gép abban a kategóriában, az EOS-1D Mark IV pedig kisebb szenzorú APS-H)
• három processzoros
• 61 autofókusz pont
• AF/AE meghatározás kapott egy dedikált DIGIC IV processzort
• videóhoz kettő DIGIC V processzor
• Gigabit eth
• két CF kártyaolvasó
• videó: 1080p 30fps, vagy 720p 60fps
• 51200-as natív ISO
• shutter lag 0,036sec
• opcionális kiegészítő: GPS és Wi-Fi modulok (GP-E1 és WFT-E6B néven)

Ár: 1,5m – 2m HUF között.

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I couldn’t believe my eyes when I first read this! Fuji announced a new mirrorless system with interchangeable lens system that will use a very large sensor. Exact size of the sensor has not been unveiled but Fuji said it is the highest resolution and lowest noise sensor ever used and it will beat any current full frame sensor! That’s probably the first real competitor for the NEX system and probably also of the future full frame NEX camera! Amazing Fuji. You did what Nikon and Canon where not able to do for now!

Press release and pictures at: DC.watch.

Apple has built significant antenna upgrades into the iPhone 4S, saying in the press release announcing the phone that it is the first phone to intelligently switch between two antennas to send and receive. We spoke to Spencer Webb, owner of AntennaSys, about the antenna history of the iPhones. He wrote extensively about the AntennaGate issues with the original iPhone 4 last year.

"With the iPhone 4," Webb explained, around the steel band "we had one cell antenna at the bottom. On the top, we had another antenna for GPS and Wi-Fi." This turned into Antennagate.


With the Verizon/CDMA iPhone, Webb believes Apple's designers "moved the GPS and Wi-Fi antennas beneath the back glass and turned the top antenna into a second antenna for the cell phone." This brought spatial diversity to the iPhone. This design helps solve the Antennagate problem, because the phone can switch between the antennas depending on signal conditions.

"If you cover up an antenna, you're probably not covering up both antennas," Webb explains. "Spatial diversity on the receiving side is required for use with the Verizon network."

The Verizon iPhone had 'receive diversity' -- it used two antennas for receiving data, but may have only transmitted on the bottom antenna. With the iPhone 4S, Apple claims to have both 'send and receive diversity' for GSM and CDMA. They're using this diversity as the solution to the antenna problem.

"The iPhone 4S may indeed be the first phone to have diversity on both the send and receive sides, and that is a decently big deal. They still have the antenna around the rim, though, so it's evolutionary, not revolutionary."

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Privacy? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Privacy…