Not Necessarily Dot Net - All Comments

re: Why FOSS is Better

CoreyRoth — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:42:46 GMT

Yeah dude, you'll never be cool enough for SharePoint. :)

re: Real World Dojo part One: Form Validation

w3cvalidation — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:17:19 GMT

Nice information, I really appreciate the way you presented.Thanks for sharing..

re: Pyjamas on Google App Engine

Josh — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:01:16 GMT

Thanks! Just had the

"mapping values are not allowed here" error, and your post provided the solution. Much obliged!

re: Pyjamas on Google App Engine

Erik Swanson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:44:42 GMT

Thank you for solving my app.yaml problem. I actually was missing a whitespace character and got the same result. But you helped me fix it.

re: Pyjamas on Google App Engine

Alexis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:33:45 GMT

"Just for the sake of anyone else who runs across that ridiculous error, it means that yaml's a lot pickier about white space than even make."

Yeah, thank you!

re: Real World Dojo part One: Form Validation

Maxim — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:27:07 GMT

Great! Thanks.

re: First Impressions of Web2py

Jens Kristian Jensen — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:20:13 GMT

Thanks for your review. I went through the same learning recently - including the default app issue, which I found out can be done via init/welcome, URL rewriting (routes.py) or by a URL redirect from init or welcome app. I didn't know the "official" suggestion, so I'm glad to find it from Massimo here.

He's incredibly helpful and it still amazes me what an unpolished gem that web2py is. For many people it is also an undiscovered gem...

Did you actually get to use web2py for a real project and how did it turn out?

re: Pyjamas on Google App Engine

Alejandro Zürcher — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:21:52 GMT

Hey, I'm getting the same error!, but changing blank spaces wont do the trick. It's a small app, since I'm just starting, but It's a headache. Here's my app.yaml:

#app.yaml

application: userstoriesGAE

version: 1

runtime: python

api_version: 1

handlers:

- url: /.*

script: main.py

And the error when running server:

mapping values are not allowed here

in "...\app.yaml", line 2, column 8

re: VB.NET vs C#

KyleKelin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:34:37 GMT

One difference is VB.NET has XML Literals now and C# doesn't (The C# team intentional left that out). So you might starting seeing C# devs writing their xml parser or generator in VB.NET and consume that in C#.

re: Linq to SQL Designer Weirdness

CoreyRoth — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:29:10 GMT

You can always skip the designer and generate your domain objects yourself and just apply the LINQ to SQL attributes.

re: Initial Thoughts on Google App Engine

Massimo — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:59:44 GMT

Hi James, about web2py. Almost everything runs except 1) you have no access to filesystem so you need to save sessions in db; 2) you can use the web2y ORM API on the GAE as long as there in equivalent statement in the GAE ORM. For example db(db.table.field=='value').select(db.table.ALL) works with any database backend, including GAE and you do not need to rewrite it but, for example, db((db.table.field=='value')|(db.table.field=='other')).select(db.table.ALL)

would not work on GAE because they do not support OR (doh!). This is not a web2py limitation, it is a google limitation and there is not much one can do about it until they improve their system.

re: Empty try/catch blocks

zenhipster — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:50:35 GMT

Perhaps your co-worker is only interested in seeing the exception while stepping through the code??? I'm not sure.

re: First post in ages

CoreyRoth — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:24:54 GMT

So far community server rocks for blogging but I wouldn't really say its a CMS.

re: First post in ages

TonyKilhoffer — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:17:21 GMT

I wish I had an excuse as to why I haven't posted in a while. Maybe I'll borrow yours?