I’m writing a little app for my English course at Jagiellonian University in Django. Right now I’m hosting it here, on hauru.eu, but soon we’ll release a book we were producing whole year and thus I have to finish the app and make it public. I thought about putting it on Google App Engine  (think: free hosting in Python), but after two days of trying I must say I don’t see any point any more.

I wrote my app using many of convenience methods/classes provided by Django, but very few of them are supported by GAE. I’d have to rewrite half of code! No way. It’s right time to use some servers in KSI: Students’ Computer Science Club, which I’m proud member of.

I’m sure Google App Engine is powerful and convenient platform, but I don’t think Django fits there well. While reading about GAE I thought the best solution would be using some external libraries like Werkzeug, as GAE is based on WSGI interface.

Update (Dec 13, 2008): The little app is live and indeed running on KSIs server. Check it out, it’s called English++: English for Computer Science Students