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Manning出版社的书都很好，我看过的有名的有《AJAX in Action》，现在Manning出版社出版了一本Google App Engine的教程，名叫Google App Engine in Action。其中的第一章目前有下载（其余的章节等我自己下到后。。希望不要被低俗掉）。

Google App Engine in Action 第一章下载地址：Revving up Google App Engine

下面是这本书的介绍（好像Manning的网站被低俗了）：

目录

1: Revving up Google App Engine – 让Google App Engine运转起来
2: Leveraging the power of Google App Engine APIs – 体验Google App Engine APIs的功能
3: Building a skeleton application with the Webapp framework – 用Webapp framework来创建一个结构化的网站
4: Harnessing the raw power of Datastore – 使用Datastore的功能
5: The Power and Flexibility of WSGI – WSGI的功能和机动性
6: Building a Pylons application – 创建一个Pylons网络应用
7: Implementing a REST architecture – 建设一个REST架构
8: 3rd party APIs and Web services – 第三方API和网络服务
9: RIA, rich internet application, techniques – 富网络应用技巧
10: Testing GAE – 测试GAE
11: Understanding logging, monitoring, and deployment – 理解logging, mornitoring和开发
12: Business solutions – 商业方案

介绍

The Google App Engine sits at the intersection of three massively important trends in web application development—the use of public web services and APIs, "Cloud" computing, and the resurgence of Python as a first-class programming language. Google App Engine is a free application environment in which a developer can use Python to build scalable and stable high-performance web applications hosted on a Google server. App Engine offers sandbox-style security, providing a strong barrier around the App Engine application environment. Better still, it costs nothing to get started, although Google plans to provide fully-supported commercial options as well.

Google App Engine in Action: Python in the Cloud is a developer-focused introduction to building web apps using the Google App Engine infrastructure and ecosystem. You’ll quickly learn the benefits of the App Engine approach and the basics of Cloud computing, crafting your first working project before you reach the end of chapter 1. You work through progressively more sophisticated examples in subsequent chapters as you learn to use both the App Engine components and the standard Python libraries.

The combination of the rich and beautiful Python language with Google’s massive ecosystem is one of the most exciting events in the recent years on the internet. Google App Engine supports all the major features you’ll need to build full-scale web apps, including:

• Support for dynamic web-serving in multiple technologies
• Persistent storage in a Google-hosted environment that supports queries, sorting, and transactions
• Built-in load balancing and scaling features
• APIs for common functions like email and user authentication
• An App Engine simulator that allows local development before deploying to the web

Google App Engine in Action shows you how to take advantage of the built-in features and, as well, how to create applications with a custom feel to them by applying a little Python magic. The book addresses high-value topics like the RESTful approach to web development, integrating App Engine with JavaScript to take advantage of the many JavaScript APIs, and even connecting to other Cloud-based resources like Amazon and Yahoo.

Finally, App Engine opens up new business opportunities by eliminating a lot of the cost and complexity associated with large-scale commercial web applications. The book closes with a chapter on how to integrate Google App Engine into a business plan. This book assumes you have basic proficiency in the Python language and that you’ve done some web development. No prior exposure to Goggle App Engine is required.