http://onrails.org/articles/2008/04/08/googles-appengine-is-up-and-running en-us 40 Ruby On Rails and related matters. <p><a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Appengine</a> is Google&#8217;s answer to Amazon&#8217;s web services (ec2, s3, ...). I just signed up and got the following message: &#8220;Thanks for checking in! When space in the Google App Engine preview release becomes available, we&#8217;ll notify you by emailing&#8230;&#8221;</p> <p>While waiting you can read there <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/gettingstarted/">doc</a> or download the <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html"><span class="caps">SDK</span></a>.</p> <p>They have some <a href="http://appgallery.appspot.com/">demo apps</a>. Also, the runtime or development language of choice seems to be Python&#8230;hopefully Ruby is next on the line.</p> <p>Update: 11:14pm Got an Invitation to try Google App Engine saying my account has been activated. The account allows me to create 3 applications.</p> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:24:18 +0000 urn:uuid:aecde38d-7635-41c5-83d4-b9028b5dfb97 Daniel Wanja http://onrails.org/articles/2008/04/08/googles-appengine-is-up-and-running <p>Ditto, just got my invite and got things set things up. Went through a few of the django examples. Really good stuff.</p> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:36:10 +0000 urn:uuid:693d6da4-c6f0-4118-b757-b7ef9e793fa4 http://onrails.org/articles/2008/04/08/googles-appengine-is-up-and-running#comment-3456