To build an App Engine webapp, you need two things: Google's App Engine SDK and release 2.5 of Python. Although you'll deploy your App Engine webapp to Google's cloud, during development, it is ...

Google on Thursday began offering an offering an upgrade to its Google App Engine SDK with features for improved performance, monitoring, and maintenance.

Additionally, Google App Engine is offering deeper support for Git with the ability to deploy Python and PHP applications to App Engine with a “Source Push-to-Deploy” feature.

Google releases the Google App Engine Launcher for Windows, a graphical user interface for creating, running and deploying App Engine applications when developing on Windows.

Google today supports only the Python language in Google App Engine. But one Googler is working on an unofficial--so far--expansion that could use Perl, too.

Our live coverage of the Google App Engine launch event is here (Update: we’ve built and launched a test application here). Google isn’t just talking about hosting applications in the cloud ...