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		marram on April 8, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google App Engine gets Cron We've implemented cron on GAE by using silent ajax calls from clients to kick start things. Works pretty well ... as long as at least one page is open in a browser somewhere.

smokey_the_bear on April 8, 2009 [–]

I have a cron job running on my workstation that curls my app engine. Does about the same thing as this.

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