#app-engine

Announced by the ZK team, they are currently working to make ZK fully run on Google AppEngine for the next coming release, 3.6.2. On the Grails side, it has been already supported AppEngine since 1.1.1, with the AppEngine plugin. ZKGrails 0.8-AE, the special branch of ZKGrails to support AppEngine, has been updated to the freshly version of ZK (3.6.2-FL). It now partially runs on AppEngine. You can find the demo here. Source of its development version is also available on Github.

- 勉強はここから…。Python+AppEngine、できることはもう手中に収まっている。あとは何をしたいかなのだが、順番が逆だなぁこりゃ…（笑）。

Breaking away from my cycle of working on Saturdays, this time I hacked for about 4 hours on Thursday night too. So including 2 hours that I spent today, total hours invested on Online SMS is close to 22 now. Majority of the work on Thursday was in designing the Landing page (and I love how it looks now). Below is the list of changes made to Online SMS this week. Landing page redesign. Lots of colors and shadows and icons. Not my domain really, but it was fun nonetheless. I changed the interface for sending SMS. The interface looks more like a chat interface now with a view of recent messages exchanged between you and the contact. For every SMS sent from website, chat box will be updated to reflect message delivery instantly. Similarly, if you receive an SMS while you are on the website, you will get a notification of the same. In case you are on the chat box of the same contact, the history will be updated with the new message. On the app front, any SMS sent from the website will now appear in your Phone's inbox. Nothing else to add right now except a small request to everyone to start using the service more. It will motivate me to add more and more features and make it even more usable. Android app: Online SMS Website: Online SMS

I am stuck. For the second straight Saturday, I worked on the same project (Online SMS). I could have gone out and watched "Life of Pi" or "Hobbit". Or completed watching "Breaking Bad" season 5. And many such useful activities. But I remained glued to my computer from the moment I woke up (4 PM) till 12AM. Why? you might ask, well my last blog post on the Online SMS project received encouraging comments on HN. I got sucked in and decided to enhance the project, and in the process remained stuck to my computer the entire day. So the things I set out to do were: 1. Integrate with Google Contacts 2. A better interface 3. Handling long messages 4. Conversation 5. History 6. Group SMS Here is the status for each Integrate with Google Contacts Status: Done I did this client side and so there is a popup which appears and gets blocked by browser. I have tried to prevent it but I am not sure. To get it to work, just allow popups from my site on your browser. The Google Contact API sucks. Better Interface Status: Work in Progress I am really bad at UI and design and everything that could make things look pretty. But I have stretched myself here and have come up with, in my opinion at least, a decent User Interface. Of course, you will be a better judge so take a look and send me your feedback. Handling long messages Status: Done (I think) I used sendMultipartTextMessage without reading up much. Long SMS is taking sometime to get delivered. I will look into it when I have some more time to spare. Conversation Status: Done What I have implemented here is that the moment you send an SMS to a contact using sms.fauzism.com, that contact gets added to a list. From now on, every SMS received from this contact will be relayed to server by your phone. Thus, you can click on the contact photo on sms.fauzism.com and view history of all the messages exchanged since you first initiated the conversation. I am capping the history at 10 messages right now. Will increase this later. History Status: Done History is available on a per contact basis in the dialog box that pops up when you click a contact's photo Group SMS Status: Pending This would be a good feature to have. I need to think of a good interface for this. If you guys have any idea of how the UI/UX should be, do chime in. If you have an advice for me or feature request, please please please, leave a comment below. Android app: Online SMS Website: Online SMS

This Saturday, I concocted a new application. Quite a useless app but fun to build anyway (and it took me around 8 hours to build). Its called Online SMS. Its made of 2 parts, an Android app and a Python GAE Server. Here is how it works 1. Install the android application. (Online SMS) 2. Once you launch it, you will see a login screen with a list of Google accounts active on your phone. Choose anyone and you get registered on my server. Behind the scene, the app registers itself with GCM using Urban Airship and sends the registration Id along with the email you selected to my server. With this part done, now you don't ever need to launch the app again. 3. Now you can visit http://sms.fauzism.com. To login, you will need the same Google account as the one you used in the Android app. For most users, this would mean that you login into your Gmail account and then come to my site and click on the "Gmail" link. 4. Once logged in, you will see a form asking for a phone number and message. Type these things in and hit Send. The message will be relayed to your phone which would then send it as an sms to the phone number you entered. Now if this isn't useless and inefficient, I don't know what is. The code is available on github. https://github.com/spicavigo/onlinesms_android https://github.com/spicavigo/onlinesms_server Few things I would like to add sometime soon would be 1. Fetching contacts from Google 2. Group SMS 3. History 4. Long Messages Lets see when I come to it.

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