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.