Archive for December, 2009

A super simple Magento store monitoring tool powered by Google App Engine

I took a bit of a break for the usual Magento development last weekend and had a crack at making a simple webstore monitoring app using Google App Engine. The application was made to monitor our webstores from a reliable, US network – and who more reliable than Google? So this blog post will detail the site monitoring app, and my thoughts on the Google app engine platform. I’d also invite anyone to try my app and let me know any thoughts you have on it, or how I could improve it.
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  • The xx - xx
  • Mos Def - The Ecstatic
  • Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
  • Florence + The Machine - Lungs
  • Vampire Weekend - Contra
  • Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
  • The Temper Trap - Conditions
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