Anyway

I’ve been try­ing out Google App Engine, for which I signed up with the Google account where I just enabled 2FA. Of course, that means chan­ging the way I update the uploaded tri­al applic­a­tion; the stand­ard Google pass­word has to give way to either a spe­cif­ic applic­a­tion-based pass­word, or OAu­th 2. OAu­th 2 is obvi­ously (to me) the bet­ter way to go.

The doc­u­ment­a­tion is reas­on­ably straight-for­ward. It even works as doc­u­mented, assum­ing you’re signed in with the right Google account on your default browser. My work­flow is a little dif­fer­ent — my main browser (Fire­fox) is signed into my main Google account, and I sign into my oth­er Google account (which I’m using for this devel­op­ment pro­ject) on Chrome. Copy­ing the URL from Fire­fox to Chrome to allow the appcfg applic­a­tion access to that Google account worked; it’s refresh­ing to see. I get tired of web applic­a­tions that use some hid­den JavaS­cript magic and give you non­sensic­al res­ults if you copy a URL from one browser to another.

There’s some­thing appeal­ing about OAu­th 2, even if it appears a little too magic­al at times (a bit like git; when it works it’s magic­al, when it does­n’t, good luck!)