About PartyPlannr

PartyPlannr is about a Google App Engine experiment. The idea behind it is to create a quick, easy to use web application built on top of Google's App Engine technology. In 72 hours.

Sometimes creating a quick event, to allow users to sign up and manage that list requires creating an account, signing up, verifying your account -- you get the hint. The goal for PartyPlannr is to allow you to do this quickly and efficiently as possible. No registration, no nothing.

Besides wanting to create a quick and efficient application, there are the risks of scalability and redundancy. I didn't want to have to deal with the typical issues with hosting, load balancing, etc. That is where the idea to utilize Google App Engine came in. They providfe a robust, flexible platform to run your applications on an as-needed basis, keeping the costs cheap. In addition, all data is automatically redundant on Google's backend.

All javascript manipulation and processing is done by the jQuery framework. This is a powerful web framework that allows for simple manipulation of DOM and JavaScript elements without complicated code.

Currently PartyPlannr is a one man show, consisting of myself, Robert Schultz as the only developer. I am a 28-year old software developer from Fresno, CA with experience in ASP, ASP.NET, C#, XML Web Services and more. Part of the goal with PartyPlannr was to gain an understanding how Google's cloud computing platform worked and to understand the inner workings of Python.