arrive(party, late)
For what it’s worth, I’ve been tinkering a bit with Google App Engine. So far I like it… I especially appreciate that I can focus on writing Python code, rather than having to work around a traditional database’s rigidity. (You know… creating a database schema, and a model in an ORM to mimick it, then keeping them in sync, all the while pretending that you’re storing and retrieving objects rather than rows in tables.)
Of course, for all I know GAE does exactly that behind the scenes, but it *feels* different. So far, I find it much more pleasant to work with than “regular” web application frameworks. Maybe this statement reveals my inexperience with web programming, but still, that’s what it feels like right now. :-)
John Cowan said,
December 30, 2008 @ 1:41 am
As the docs make plain, what is behind the Datastore interface is in no sense a relational database.