Author’s note

This post was recovered from my old blog via the Wayback Machine, it has been edited for grammar. I’m glad I found this post. I think it’d be neat to see the exact date I started learning something, and I wish I had more records like this. Now I know I’ve been using Python for over 14 years. I’d say I’m an expert in it now – it’s been my primary language for the past 8 years, and most everything I’ve built in my time at AWS has been with Python. For posterity’s sake, I guess I should mention that I just started learning Rust about three weeks ago – let’s call it September 4th, 2022.

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I’m off to learn Python -Apr 9 2008

I’ve been pretty happy with PHP for a long time now. Every once in a while I’ll find a good reason to explore another language, and just as I was getting the hang of Ruby on Rails, Google had to go and do this.

The Google App Engine (GAE) has very exciting potential, especially for developers like me who don’t have a big supply of extra cash they can throw at scaling hardware or bandwidth costs. Free 500MB of storage and 5 million pageviews a month? I’d be happy to pay for exceeding those pageviews.

GAE is a neat idea, and I’ll definitely be taking advantage of Google’s services. Unfortunately, it only supports the Python programming language, of which I have no experience. So, for the next few days, I’ll be dipping my foot in the Python pool, and waiting for my invite to use the GAE.

- @jbnunn