Why?
Well the main reason is that I'm cheap. This lets me drop my hosting plan and save a couple bucks a month. I already use google apps for email, so it has been an easy switch.
Another reason is to get more comfortable in Python. It is a really nice language, but I rarely get to use it at work. This site give me a chance to get more familiar with the language and how it is used for the web. I've found the django framework is really nice, but it would be better if the entire framework could be used with GAE. Right now, only the templating engine can be used, not the data modeling and generated CMS. GAE does its own data models, but the easy CMS is greatly missed.
Also note I had to remove the travel log section temporarily. The flex app needs to be rebuilt since I can't just load in huge xml files like I did in the old version. GAE has a single file size limit and I wanted to refactor the data loading anyway. I just haven't had time to do rebuild it and I don't want to hold up releasing the new site any longer.
New Site!
Posted On: Sun, Feb 07 2010
I've rebuilt my site, yet again. This edition is built on Google App Engine using Python and the Django templating engine. The old version was PHP/Drupal.
