Megen just finished up her last day of her first year in medical school; she is now officially 1/4 of a doctor! Check out the before and after shots of our dining room table:
Congratulations Megen!
Ask and ye shall receive. Attached is a patch for using friendfeed.py on Google App Engine. You need to also have demjson available. Google App Engine does not allow use of many C modules (like cjson) and both json and simplejson will throw decoding errors from time to time. demjson is slow but won’t throw [...]
Google App Engine gained support for memcached today, a very high performance caching system, and I’m already using it in FF To Go.
I’ll share some code with you so you know how it works. This is the code that renders the public feed:
def public(request):
f = friendfeed.FriendFeed()
try:
[...]
Not much to say other than have at it: http://www.fftogo.com/search/
I’ve made a few modifications to FF To Go this morning (with more in the pipeline):
Fixed Time Deltas
This was an interesting bug. When FF To Go was hosted on Google App Engine I incorrectly set the project’s time zone to EST. FriendFeed’s API returns UTC timestamps for everything; but all the time deltas (”x hours [...]
