Can Google Wallet schedule your weekly/monthly/periodic shopping list
for the following items from <your-regular-store>?
- <item-1> - <quantity>
- <item-2> - <quantity>
- ..
[Yes, schedule now] [No] [Change item-list and schedule]
..should be the eventual evolution of such a service.
Requires nothing more than a Google/Google-Apps user account to get going.
You can define Entities ("table"/"sheets") and Attributes ("columns"/"fields") to get working with your database app within a few minutes.
Integrates with Google Contacts (import/upload), Google Docs (attach docs to database records), Google Maps (mark and search for records based on geographic location). Google Calendar (export events/tasks-like data) and email integration are coming up later.
- Authorization Profiles for fine grain access control up to field level.
- Custom Views to filter data matching your criteria.
- Custom Actions for single click edits.
- Automated Audit of all write operations
- Bulk Export & Import of data as CSV files.
- Support for drop-down choices,
look-up fields (references) and
image fields (with auto thumbnails for list view)
..and more.
For developers who need to provide mobile access to their hosted apps, this event makes it easy to decide on a path with regard to "Native apps / Web apps ?" question.
To add to it, it is not that I want to switch from GAE to AWS now. But, to know that it will be easier in case I need to, makes it good news.
I also believe competition which facilitates such migrations not only validates the space and the standard (write for GAE, you can host it on Google or on AWS), but also helps drive innovation and service levels.
Seems Amazon wants to fight it out with Google, by matching the new services with Google App Engine's free quota.
$0.10 per thousand in SES -> $0.0001 per email recipient // Same as in GAE.
You can send 2,000 messages for free each day when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance directly or through AWS Elastic Beanstalk. // Same as in GAE.
This, along with the recent AWS Elastic Beanstalk release and Amazon's intent of making Java hosting easy and without restrictions (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2119104) all point to the day when I will be able to upload my Python app on GAE directly onto a pre-configured Amazon service (possibly making use of AppScale or TyphoonAE), which internally uses all these new services with free quotas.
With iFreeTools Creator, you can either import the entities and attributes which you require from the CRM data-model : http://code.google.com/p/crm-apps-datamodel/ or define your own data-model too.
If you would like to have a simple app which can align more with your requirements, you can build one online in a few minutes, using iFreeTools Creator.
I am not sure if an app running on a different cloud platform like (Google App Engine / Azure / etc.,) can make use of Database.com and still provide decent response time to user requests.
This service will be helpful for pre-generating reports having queries which span across multiple tables (JOINS) and which can use aggregate queries (SUM/COUNT/MAX/MIN/etc.,.), both of which are currently not possible with Google App Engine's BigTable. But with Google already working on full-featured SQL database support (http://code.google.com/appengine/business/roadmap.html), I don't think I will use it for such an use-case too.
App Gallery was just a GAE application show-case center, and most likely was causing confusion to Google Apps customers too.
I am still a developer who trusts GAE (my app was on the appgallery and is also listed on marketplace) and believe that they will continue to compete for developer mind-share, as they proved yet again with this performance update.
Let go of the fear, uncertainty & doubt and hop on to try an app. You will like it too.
After making an entry into the top 50 skills in Q1 2010, Google App Engine, the cloud-based application development platform, showed the single largest increase in demand with over a 10x growth quarter over quarter. With this increase, Google App Engine (#37) moved past Amazon Web Services (#40) as the cloud platform highest in demand in Q2.