SSL / TLS on Google App Engine Custom Domains

Using Wildcard Certificates signed by GoDaddy

SSL and TLS -- technologies used to encrypt and secure network transmissions -- and Custom Domains hosted on Google App Engine can be a challenge to configure.  This article describes the nuances and gotchas that can come up during the deployment of SSL certificates on Custom Domains hosted on Google App Engine.

Alert: Google's API Changes Affect Account Synchronization

The Google tools provided for synchronizing accounts between your organization and your Google Apps domain are changing. These changes require developers to rebuild the applications used to perform this synchronization.

Using Google Apps Script to Automate Document Creation

Google Apps Script is a Javascript-like programming language that runs on Google's cloud; it provides tools and library calls that allow developers to interact with data from both public and private sources (upon authorization by the end user whose data is being manipulated).

A Week of Software Development from a Chromebook

Google's wildly popular Chromebook laptop was designed around a very simple concept - provide a platform whose only application is a web browser.

This allows Google to provide a very cost-effective, energy-efficient, and extremely user-friendly platform. But with only a web browser, is it possible to use a Google Chromebook to do development work? White Stratus Development Lead Wes Dean spent a week using only a Chromebook and found that it didn't slow him down in the least!

Read more on the White Stratus Blog.

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.

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.