Glashammer, an alternative framework on Google AppEngine
In his blog, on Friday, August 29, 2008 , Johnathan talked about Google AppEngine , and said the "you can use any web framework you like, as long as it's django" attitude That may have been true then, it probably isn't true now. Glashammer have been working for the last few weeks on getting the Glashammer framework of Werkzeug and Jinja2 running and easy on Appengine. Firstly this wasn't hard. Glashammer is very free about what kind of data storage you use, so using Appengine's DataStore was straightforward. Some utility functions for running easily, add a few decorators for controlling what happens for authentication form redirection to limit views for certain users and we are pretty much done. They have additionally tried to make it easier to install with a little script to get us started. So (since it seems a good start): gh-admin quickstart_gae This will generate a starter AppEngine + Glashammer application that is ready to go. It will al