you think you know someone....

So, it's no secret that Ryan likes peaches. You could say he has a passion for them, but that may be a little too dramatic. Either way, he loves them. Well, the other night, we were sitting on the couch sharing a wonderful peach together (true newlywed bliss, I tell you)... when all of a sudden, he took the peach pit and walked outside. I sat there just staring at the door thinking, "did I do something wrong?" Finally after a few seconds, he came back in and acted like nothing happened.

I got up and asked him, "so... what was that?" And then he just matter-of-factly said, "Oh, I throw the peach pits outside because I hope it'll make a peach tree someday." For some reason I just started laughing because I thought that was probably the cutest thing ever (call it adoration). It was just so normal to him, like everybody does this.

And I thought I knew everything about him. I guess you learn something new every day as a newlywed :)

P.S. Hey, apartment complex: If you see a beautiful peach tree in about 5 years... You're welcome.

App Engine Community Update





Having spent the past two weeks tracking a hamster across America, creating collaborative pictures, and planning plenty of parties, I think it's time to get together another community update.



We were excited to find that one of our developers has started tracking App Engine performance, and hope to see more along these lines in the future. Developers continue to contribute information relating to the bulk loader, including an article that discusses UTF-8 and HandleEntity. And finally, Adobe AIR and Flex developers might be interested in this article about creating a photo application on Google App Engine.



Those of you who aren't content to just read may wish to get your hands dirty with some Open Source App Engine code. We've had 10 more additions to our Open Source project page, including projects that will interest all you Scrabble players, radio listeners, and RESTful developers.



Lastly, the forum discussion continues to keep pace, with topics that include IP geocoding, domain configuration, and continued discussion about the cap on indexed properties for an entity.



Keep letting us know what you've been up to!