My first look at Google App Engine was back in 2009 when they were hyping their Cloud computing offering. It looks interesting, got curious, read the docs, got the SDK, followed the sample code, upload and voila! My first "Hello World!" live web app in no time. Niceness!
Having never use cloud computing before, it's amazing how the whole GAE setup is newbie-friendly. Compared to Amazon (AWS) setup, their Webapp framework works incredibly well to get me off the ground quickly. No need to muck around how it's hosted or provisioned. It just works. And it's free.
However, at the time, I'm was only superficially curious about trying GAE, so promptly forgot about it as soon as I had it running. But fast forward today, cloud computing is going to be my techie project for the year.
Anyways, I made a toy web app here to get me started on GAE again. Check it out. It's a rudimentary web image-editing tool using Images Python API from GAE. Basically, it can resize, flip, crop and enhance photos. There's also a function called composite (ie. produce a composite image from multiple source) that I would have wanted to add, but couldn't figure out how to use it.
Normally, I'd post the Python code here but it'll take too much space. That, and it's mostly a rehash of their Python Images API code found on their documentation and some snippet of code here and there, so I'm skipping it here on this post.
Edit: Just found out about about Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier. Looks good, and will definitely check it out once I have more GAE development experience under my belt.
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