Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, USA, Ireland and Austria - these nations were represented at this year's Snow-Sprint, the innovation workshop, or X-treme programming event in the Alps (Bürserberg, A).

Juergen Kartnaller, our senior developer, gave us deep insights with his talk about PyJS - a Python framework for Rich Internet Applications in Ajax as well as our special guest Nick Johnson, the GAE Core developer at Google Inc. in Dublin, with his presentation about AppStats - an analysis tool for performance optimization in the Cloud.

The following interesting projects have emerged during the week:

With Tweet Engine http://www.tweetengine.net/ teams can now share twitter accounts, without passing the password. For example, a corporate twitter account can be set up where different users can post onto. The project was implemented on Google App Engine. The source code is available for free under http://github.com/Arachnid/tweetengine ready for download.



The GAE logger is designed to log events on the Google App Engine. The logger can be accessed via Python, JSON-RPC or HTTP POSTS. With the UI, the logs can be filtered and sorted accordingly. Users can register for notifications, so they are informed when certain events are logged - for example, if an item on the portal was published. The subscriptions can
also be activated, disabled and monitored via a Jabber client. This suits GAE loggers for developers as well as content managers who want to be informed in real time when certain events occur. The source code is available under http://code.google.com/p/gae-logger for free.

OpenDropbox is a project initiated also on the Snow Sprint. This is a sync client, where folders can be shared by different clients. Through a web interface authorized users can choose, what projects / folders they want to have available locally. Whenever a user changes something in the project folder, it will also update all the other clients.

http://code.google.com/p/opendropbox

Moreover intensive research and testing with Google Wave was done, resulting in examplebots for communication between an application and the Google GAE Wave.

http://waveomat.appspot.com/

http://code.google.com/p/waveomat/

Apart from all the projects the participants had an extensive know-how transfer. We are excited about the upcoming GAE applications.

Some impression can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/snowsprint2010/

Thank you to everyone who participated this year's Snow-Sprint. We are pleased with the output and hope that you all enjoyed it too!

Special thanks to our sponsors Chip Communications, Weave and Freihof.

We are looking for a committed HTML/CSS Guru with JavaScript know-how and outstanding software development abilities. Ideally with Python experience.

We offer an exciting working environment and a positive working atmosphere in a young, dynamic and motivated team.

If you are interested, contact Maria-Anna Lang on miann(at)lovelysystems(dot)com

Dear Customer,
Dear Business Partners,
Dear Friends,

we want to thank you for the good cooperation in this year, and thank have placed your trust in our work. 2009 was marked by the great financial crisis, which has been severely hit all sectors and particularly the media companies. We, Lovely Systems, as a technology service providers have felt the impact of the crisis too and the reluctance of some projects. It was certainly not an easy year but we see it as a possible opportunity to promote new ideas and perspectives and to reflect on further product development.

We have used the time to invest exactly in this area and will present the Lovely Marketizer in January 2010. Before Christmas we won't tell too much, of course. You may still be very excited!

But now we wish you all happy Christmas holidays and a great start into the new year with many exciting new projects!

For you the very best wishes and easeful days with your family and friends.