What do you get with App Engine? A container that runs your web application, a datastore of 500 MB, enough bandwidth for 5 million requests a month, and some nifty APIs. What’s really cool is that they use Python as the language, and offering a basic framework to ease development. But they are supposed to support other Python frameworks, too, like Django or TurboGears. A big step forward for Python.

To make a developer’s life even more fun, they also provide a SDK for Windows, Mac and Linux that includes a complete local test environment to run and debug App Engine applications.

So, now they only have to send me an invite to start my first Google App Engine project. Please.

There’s just one thing that could prevent me from doing so… the birth of our first child. Ben Linus was born on March 29, 2008, and is a sweet and healthy little boy that does request a lot of our time at the moment. But he’s definitely worth it!

What will I write about? I have no idea yet. Anything that comes to my mind, personal and work stuff, findings on the web, new technologies from web and internet development. I’m a fresh convert to Mac, so maybe there will be something to publish, too.

Hope you like it, come back if you do, or find another blog to read if not