Tag Archives: Pylons

Waiting to see if App Engine or an alternative gets there first

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

After tracking down numerous alternatives to Google App Engine after hitting a wall on Project Fangorn, I looked at the most promising alternatives in more depth. Here is what I found. GigaSpaces Using GigaSpaces XAP would mean–at a minimum–creating Python … Continue reading →

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Light Web Strategy Game Progress

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

Code and UI Design Over the last several days I have been mocking up the layout of various web pages and designing the interfaces that the controller will utilize (Pylons makes use of the Model-View-Controller software design pattern) get game … Continue reading →

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Web game prototype

Posted on August 24, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

I now have a prototype for a web based game up on Google App Engine.  Being a prototype there is just enough implemented to persist one user interaction (take a turn), but that is enough know there aren’t any technical … Continue reading →

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No Appcelerator for my first App Engine app

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

Playing Travian inspired me to develop web based strategy, and after surveying a number of others to get a feel for the market I’ve begun game design and technical prototyping. I thought I’d give Appcelerator a try, since it can … Continue reading →

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Google App Engine lock-in … not a problem

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Josh Heitzman

Well, even if Appcelerator does expose some of the specifics of Google’s App Engine platform, there has already been a first pass at hacking up a port of the App Engine API to Amazon’s EC2 platform that is already up … Continue reading →

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