Finnur Palmi Magnusson aka Gommit

I have been messing about with with the new Google App Engine web application development environment for a while now and plan to migrate this blog onto it (more on that later). Some of my fellow geeks have asked, why would you invent the wheel again when there are so many great blog applications out there and my answer is the same as to why the dogs lick their balls… I can. And I like to build stuff now and then as my work is mainly about talking these days.

My experience has been a pleasant one excluding the 1Mb upload limits for files. I like Python and Django and it only took a couple of days to get accustomed to the basics. Documentation is also quite good for the GAE and they have a good selection of demo apps. Development and deployment is a walk in the park, but it would be nice to have an IDE to debug stuff on your local machine.

All that said, last night I deployed the new Moss website. We have a gig tomorrow and I felt that we should really have the new site live by then. Mr Rootside is responsible for the design and I just used what I had developed in the last couple of weeks for the blog and gig listing. It is all marked up in Microformats which is cool for those who care and we have some mashups going with Twitter and Flickr where we can post updates from our mobiles straight to the site. I still need to set up the RSS feeds and such, but it is an improvement from the old site. Now we just need to record some music to put on there as well.

Moss grow on rock….