I added a few more dice styles to Rollrs gaming dice bag.




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Created 188 weeks, 4 days ago

I wanted to make good on a few of the updates I promed to make in Rollr.


Today I added the ability to change your dice skins, and a few performance enhancements. Also, I didn't realized I had published the first version with all the Fireworks source PNG's and not the optimized PNG files. Whoops, that was only a 6 MB overhead. Should be even faster now folks. I blame the ultra-fast Google servers. I would have noticed the problem on a slower host.



Enjoy!

technorati: Google App Engine, application, rollr, dice, dungeonsanddragons, dnd, d20, chance, toy, game, games

Created 189 weeks, 2 days ago

I just finished with my first Google App Engine application. I call it Rollr and you can find it in the Google App Engine App Gallery.

If you experience anything interesting while using it, let me know. I am finding my understanding of the Google App Engine platform might need a tad bit more spit-for-polish before I start trusting my apps to run without problems.




Google App Engine Gallery listing for:  Rollr


Over the next few days, I will write up a short summary about what I went through in order to make this application a reality. Today I am busy so I will just leave you with the link to the app and a small writeup of how this web app was born.



I started Rollr on May 19th when I attended at the Google hack-a-thon in San Francisco. We were asked to think of something to work on if us attendees didn't want to work on the sample wiki application. This is what I thought of at that moment.

I worked slowly over the first two weeks after the hack-a-thon, setting up the framework for what would be a somewhat larger than I had first imagined 'chance engine' application (as I call it).

Also, after I attended the Google I/O conference, I had a better idea of how to proceed on some of the more difficulty Google data API integration challenges I was having. This gave me the "opportunity" to retrofit some of the original Python code to work better with those connections.

Lastly, I'd like to share my time costs for Rollr 1.0.

• Reading Google App Engine docs: 5 hours (over the course of the project)
• Python and Web interface: 30 hours
• Python and Web bug fixes: 10 hours
• Retrofitting my data models after I learned that the Google App Engine production environment isn't exactly the same as the dev environment: 5 hours
• Graphic design: 2 hours

In total, i looks like I have spent nearly 40 hours working on this app. That sounds about right for a hobby app of this size. I hope you enjoy it!


technorati: Google App Engine, application, rollr, dice, dungeonsanddragons, dnd, d20, chance, toy, game, games

Created 190 weeks, 10 hours ago

Want to retrieve more than 25 contacts in a query to the Google Contacts Data API? Make sure you working with at least Google App Engine SDK version 1.1.0. I think this bug was the problem which affected 1.0.2 and 1.0.1.


Created 191 weeks, 3 days ago