Listry Blog Listry News and Technical Articles tag:listry.com,2011-08-30:/blog/atom.xml Kyle Stewart 2011-08-24T22:16:09.000Z Listry's Launch Day Stats and Feature Roadmaptag:listry.com,2011-8-24:/blog/201182422162011-08-24T22:16:09.000ZIt's the day after launch, and I thought I'd share some stats and also a roadmap of features I plan on implementing in the future. Launch day was way more successful than I was expecting. I never thought I would get as high as I did on HackerNews (#2), and I'm very grateful to everyone who tried out Listry and gave feedback. [...] Listry Beta Launches Todaytag:listry.com,2011-8-23:/blog/201182313272011-08-23T13:27:38.563ZToday I'm launching the beta of Listry. Listry combines the collaborative writing capabilities of a wiki with a voting system that determines the best parts of an article. There's still a ton of improvements I need to make, but I wanted to launch early and get feedback. [...] App Engine's High-Performance Image Serving Systemtag:listry.com,2010-8-18:/blog/20108181552010-08-18T15:05:42.000ZYesterday's App Engine SDK version 1.3.6 release gave app engine developers access to a new high performance image serving system. [...] App Engine - Locking with the Memcachetag:listry.com,2010-5-30:/blog/201053019152010-05-30T19:15:00.000ZWe've all heard that locking in web applications is a bad thing. That's mostly true, but if you don't actually wait to acquire a lock then no harm is done. [...] Google App Engine Cold Start Tip - Don't Use JSPtag:listry.com,2010-3-22:/blog/201032210112010-03-22T10:11:58.000ZIf you haven't read Google App Engine Cold Start Guide for Java, read that first. [...] Google App Engine Cold Start Guide for Javatag:listry.com,2010-3-20:/blog/20103209412010-03-20T09:41:19.000ZOver the last few months I have spent a lot of time trying to optimize my cold start time for Google App Engine. I've done many tests and tried many things out, and have been able to bring my application which had a cold start time of about 15 seconds down to a cold start time of about 1100 milliseconds. [...] Spring Forms on Google App Enginetag:listry.com,2010-2-11:/blog/20102118252010-02-11T08:25:01.000ZOut of the box, Spring forms on the Google App Engine does not work. The problem has to do with the way Spring finds custom property editors. Continue reading to see how you can get Spring forms working with Google App Engine. [...]