November 19th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamWe’ve updated our documentation to conform to the new Google Code format and functionality. You can now search over our documentation, get quick access to our tutorials and articles and see recent post…
November 14th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamThere have been a few question recently about the best ways to authenticate users given GME’s restriction on only allowing authenticated users to write data to the datastore feeds. I wanted to give some…
November 14th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor Team
There have been a few question recently about the best ways to authenticate users given GME’s restriction on only allowing authenticated users to write data to the datastore feeds. I wanted to give some background on the decisions we made a provide a mini tutorial on how to handle authentication.
When developing GME we wanted to make sure we weren’t contributing to the spam issues in applications. The best to do that was to prevent users who were not logged in from adding data to the datastore. To do this we created a set of controls for creating, editing and deleting data that would only be shown when the user is logged in. To make it easy for developers to specify when a user should be logged in we added a simple authenticate attribute to the gm:page tag.
There are times when you want the edit controls to be displayed for logged in users but not require everyone accessing your application to have to sign in. To do this we created a simple javascript function that you can use to send users to the sign in page.
Displaying the login screen when a link is clicked
Sign in to add entries
Check a working sample of this application in our demo gallery or access it here. If you have feedback on the Google Mashup Editor let us know about it in our developer forum.
November 8th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamWe have a new release of GME this week with several feature improvements and bug fixes. For a complete list of changes see the GME Release Notes App. Some highlights below.New header in the Editor that…
November 8th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamWe have a new release of GME this week with several feature improvements and bug fixes. For a complete list of changes see the GME Release Notes App. Some highlights below.New header in the Editor that…
November 6th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamReto Meier has posted a great article about using Google services like Google Calendar and Google Spreadsheets with GME. Check out the article on Reto’s site, Radioactive Yak, and see his work in actio…
November 5th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamWe are back to fully functioning Editor and applications. Sorry about the downtime, we are doing everything we can to prevent these types of outages from happening. Please let us know if you continue to…
November 5th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamAs you may have noticed GME is undergoing some unexpected maintenance. We hope this will be resolved in a few minutes. Sorry for inconvenience we might have caused.
October 31st, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamLast night we had a little earthquake in the San Francisco area. I immediately turned to Reto Meier’s World Wide Earthquakes Mashup to see what was going on.While the dishes were falling off my shelves …
October 30th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamI wanted to congratulate a few of you on the mashups you’ve created and added to our project gallery.The Great Canadian Hot Deals Mashup!Terence Lo encourages us to save some Loonies by visiting his m…
October 29th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamWe’ve had some short notice of required maintenance on some of the sub-systems of the editor. At 11:00AM Pacific the Google Mashup Editor will go into read-only maintenance mode for approximately 3 hour…
October 24th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamI’ll be speaking at the Silicon Valley Code Camp on Saturday at 5:15PM in Los Altos Hills, CA. I’m presenting the Mashup Editor and some best practices for creating great mashups using GME. If you are i…
October 22nd, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamRich Burdon and I sat down with Dion Almaer of Google Code to discuss the Google Mashup Editor. We talked about mashups, Google’s mashup creation tools, competition in the mashup space and some best pr…
October 18th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Paul McDonald, Google Mashup Editor TeamReto Meier, author of Earthquake and MyTravelMap, has outdone himself once again with his newest mashup Hit for Six: The Ultimate Cricket Mashup. This is a really impressive Cricket mashup that exemplif…
October 17th, 2007 | by Paul McDonald | published in Google App Engine
Posted by Jason Cooper, Google Mashup Editor TeamThe leaves turn color and fall… spooky cackles pierce the cold, dark night as a faint howl echoes in the distance, carried on a biting wind. This can only mean one thing — Halloween is nearly upon us …