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Handling the many favicons on Google App Engine

Sun, 05 March 2017

It used to be just a simple favicon.ico file that you had to worry about, but more recently other formats have been creeping in. Instead of adding a huge number of handlers into your app.yaml, you can simply use this snippet (after any other image / resource references):- url: /(.*\.(ico|png|json|xm... read more

Validating Google's reCAPTCHA on App Engine with Python

Sun, 20 November 2016

Google have seriously revamped their reCAPTCHA recently. And it's awesome. Running this on App Engine for comments on blog posts or whatever else you need it for is quite simple.I wrote this small Python class to help verifying the results:import urllib2 import urllib import json class ReCapt... read more

Admin areas are just easier with Google App Engine

Sun, 09 October 2016

Before reading on, take note that quite often you need your own system. This isn't a catchall solution, but for basic administrative systems, this is great.We've all made numerous admin systems. And for most of us, it's something of a chore. Not least because it takes ages to put a decent login syst... read more