Register your Google App Engine Application

Then we should run. I click the button and decided to create my application. The first step was to identify myself. This will help Google prevent SPAM! I didn't tried but I think 1 phone number can register you one time.

I'm in Tunisia and the process was ultra fast. The assistant told me that I should wait 10 minutes or more but it didn't take even 1 second. I was really shocked because if i was sending the sms to another number and of the same network, this will take longer than 2 minutes to wait. Any way, how you can explain it, I got the code and arrived to the creating page of the application.

I enter the "application name" and it said that it's available, but when I click on Save, that tell me that the ID is not available.

No way, I must try another way. So I started with the Getting Started documentation.

First step is to download Python and install it. Which will be another story!
Python wasn't that lite, it wieght more than 10 mb. One thing that I don't have answer, why should I install Python? Why Google need python? Is it just needed for developer?

I first started by reading the stupid Python introduction
Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.

Here's what you could read on the main page of Python. But still not clear for me what this thing will do!
I found in the side bar, a widget that shows category where this Python can help and I got interested on the Web Programming one but really didn't find something attracting especially when I saw that the download completed.

Ok the installation with the msi package was too easy but using it... may not, so I got a look on the program menu. I found the documentation, so I opened it and it starts a real server! (like the dot net help).

The help is so big! And Python seems clearly now a group of library, that we'll use perhaps. So I returned to Google App engine.

The next step is to download the Google App engine SDK. I found also some buttons for websites powered by Google App Engine. I decided to use one in the blog when fixing a custom template to it.

The SDK was light, only 2.5 mb, and It was msi package also. That was an important point for me because the Google Desktop SDK for Windows was a zip file, with very stupid files inside.
But 2.5 mb wasn't that impressive for me, if I compare it to Visual Basic .net, this would be 30 times bigger. But bigger don't mean better, but so bigger may mean it!

I found it now boring and won't become interesting unless I see and react with some samples that I'm going to show later.