Monthly Archives: November 2008

Stock analysis software progress VI

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

It’s been nearly 2 months since my last post on this subject. Since then I believe I gotten all of the bugs banged out of the code that tries out different parameterized metrics for selecting the parameters to feed to … Continue reading →

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The AppEngine platform needs more tools

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

While Google’s App Engine is a platform just as things like Windows, *nix, or Sony’s PlayStations are, it is a new one that is sorely missing numerous tools that are readily available on other platforms. For example your OS has … Continue reading →

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Space-Based Architecture for AppEngine

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

Several posts ago I mentioned that I was waiting to see which cloud provider would be up to hosting Project Fangorn first.  In my last two posts (one, two) I talked about some of the issues with testing web apps … Continue reading →

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Grey box testing web applications deployed to Google App Engine

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

Last post I stated: Due GAE’s limitations on CPU time/cycles and an overall maximum limit of 10 seconds to fulfill a request a non-trivial set of unit tests will exceed the quotas if they are all run at the same … Continue reading →

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Unit testing web applications deployed to Google AppEngine

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

While the GAE SDK does provide the ability to run your web application locally, I’ve found that that the SDK’s local datastore doesn’t work precisely the same as the real one. Specially I’ve found that the local one is more … Continue reading →

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