Matt Bracewell

Playing with the new Google App Engine Launcher this evening I spotted this warning every time the dev_appserver server kicked up:

WARNING  2009-08-10 22:37:23,407 dev_appserver.py:3358
Could not initialize images API; you are likely missing the Python "PIL" module.
ImportError: No module named _imaging

A comment from praseodym on the GAE Cookbook recipe Install PIL in Mac OS X provided this one liner:

sudo easy_install --find-links http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Imaging

I ran the command in Terminal and was impressed with a speedy auto install and, ignoring a few errors in the verbose output, restarted the dev_appserver. Same warning!

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Increasingly I find myself having to add custom meta data in order to validate my ownership of a site.  Both Yahoo and Google offer webmaster tools with the option of either adding a static html page or including custom meta tags.
Although its easy enough to quickly upload an html file most of my sites would require explicit tweaks to the .htaccess file to allow the plain html to be served.  Without the exception being added the request is caught by the application and a 404 is thrown.

Adding a custom meta tag is therefore the path of least resistance and with a TYPO3 site running TemplaVoila you have two options:

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My Top sites (last 30 days)

1. en.wikipedia.org
2. www.typo3-jack.net
3. lists.otrs.org
4. lists.netfielders.de
5. doc.otrs.org

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