Web Development
Google App Engine Bulkloader Refreshing due to a 401 Loop
Developing apps on Google App Engine can be difficult when your production servers have a dataset that is hard to reproduce on your local development servers. Thankfully Google App Engine includes a very useful tool to do bulkloading. To download your data from production: appcfg.py download_data [...]
Erratic Google App Engine 401 response when GOOGAPPUID set to x
I ran across a strange issue on an angularJS application that makes backend calls to a Google App Engine API. Every so often, the request would fail out with a 401 unauthorized request, but if you hit the reload button, the page would reload fully logged in. Looking at the AJAX request, it looked like the request didn’t change and [...]
Getting VisualVM to Connect to Railo 4
VisualVM is a great Java VM debugging tool that can show you VM performance as it runs your code. Since Railo runs on Java VM, this is a great tool to see if your code is leaking memory. NOTE: This setup is on a debian linux box running railo installed via the script with an apt-get install apache frontend. This should behave similarly [...]