Google Blog post describes KDA-supported project

KDA Principal and White Stratus Development Lead Wes Dean led proof-of-concept projects for Travis Perkins as a part of the UK company's efforts to innovate with Google. TP sought to go beyond more than just Gmail and Google Calendars.  

For project details, read Google's complete post on its Official Enterprise Blog by guest blogger JJ Van Oosten, Group CIO for Travis Perkins plc,* the largest supplier of building and home improvement materials in the United Kingdom, at: 

• http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/10/google-enterprise-brings-travis-perkins.html

Dean said, "I had the privilege of working with JJ and his team at TP's Northampton, UK corporate headquarters in April of 2013.  In addition to the technologies listed in JJ's post -- Google Apps, Google Chrome, and Google+ -- our work utilized Google Cloud Platform, including Google App Engine and Google Cloud SQL."

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Wes Dean, a Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist and a Google Apps Trusted Tester, is Principal of KDA Web Technologies, a Google-Centric development firm and a Google Apps Authorized Reseller. To learn how Wes and KDA Web Technologies can help you, go to www.kdaweb.com.

* nothing written here is intended to imply, explicitly or implicitly, that Travis Perkins endorses or recommends White Stratus or KDA Web Technologies.  KDA Web Technologies was contracted by Google Apps Reseller White Stratus to complete the scope of work required by Travis Perkins.

Using PHP with MySQL on Google App Engine and Google Cloud SQL with file and database support

There was a post on the Caucho blog on the 12th of December about using their open source Quercus project to run PHP code on Google App Engine (GAE):

http://blog.caucho.com/2012/12/06/quercus-on-google-app-engine-20/#more-1100

This post lists several new tools that Quercus now provides, including:

• reading from and writing to files using Google's files-like API to store data on Google Cloud Storage using native file operations (i.e. the application doesn't know that what it's writing to "disk" isn't a disk at all)
• run SQL code on Google Cloud SQL with pdo_ and mysql_ functions mapped to Google Cloud SQL functions

These are very exciting new tools available to the PHP community to run PHP applications on Google App Engine with database support provided by Google Cloud SQL.  

Finally, as a proof of concept, the article demonstrates how to run the latest version of Wordpress on Google App Engine.

Quercus is provided by Caucho as Free / Open-Source Software solution; the package and examples can be downloaded from: https://github.com/diablonhn/quercus_on_gae_2

-- Wes Dean, a Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist and a Google Apps Trusted Tester, is Principal of KDA Web Technologies, a Google Apps Authorized Reseller. To learn how Wes and KDA Web Technologies can help you, go to http://www.kdaweb.com/.