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I've been working a lot with Google App Engine in the past few months. I still maintain, as I reiterated recently in my Boagworld interview with Paul, that it's a great idea and has great potential. And the Google App Engine team has been wonderful in working with me and helping me out.

Content Management Interoperability Services The latest news items for today are: Announcing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification - Today, EMC, IBM and Microsoft (along with other leading ECM industry vendors Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle and SAP) have developed a

Backing up and restoring the datastore in your local SDK can be very useful for several use cases. Personally, I find that I alternate between running the local SDK with a restore of data from the deployment environment and with an empty or test datastore.

We've updated other parts of the system before, so it's time for the datastore to ante up with its own improvements. There may not be any big surprises, but we still hope you'll enjoy the new features we've included! First up is batch writes. You can now include entities in different entity groups in a single db.put() or db.delete() call.

This is a quick screencast to show you the data export solution I've created for Google App Engine that lets you backup your application's datastore and restore it either locally on your development machine or on the same Google App Engine application on the deployment environment or on a different Google App Engine application (which you can use as a staging environment).

Google App Engine, we need to have a talk about your datastore keys. Your keys can have names but they cannot start with a number. Keys can also have IDs, which are numeric. We can read those, but can't set them. When I put an entity into the datastore for the first time, you assign it a numeric ID.

A quick update on the flow for backups/restores for Google App Engine that I'm building: On your deployment environment, you access an admin-only page where you start the backup. The backup completes and asks you if you want to download it.

Just wanted to do a quick post for items I must share: Congrats to Vertigo Software have being awarded Microsoft Web Development Partner of the Year for their work on Hard Rock application (go check it out)!

R-cards “ah-hah!” at IIW by Joe, on June 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment » At last month’s Internet Identity Workshop and the subsequent DataSharing Summit, Markus S and Drummond Reed unpacked several ideas about r-cards, which, to a certain extent, are an evolution of the Information Card at the heart of CardSpace.

I have been looking forward to this as many of you have. The Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools version 1.2 have been released; go ahead and download this (VSeWSSv12.exe) if you have Visual Studio 2008.  Thanks to the Chris Johnson (WSS PM) and the rest of the WSS team for the release!