Gawsh is a framework and set of utilites to support development for the Google App Engine.

The first utility is a bulk-download facility to support downloading data from a Google App to a file on the client, in either CSV or XML format. It consists of a client module, run on the desktop, and a server module to be customized and incorporated into a Google App, with a similar structure to the bulk upload components supplied by Google.

Using rsync it’s very easy to mimic Mac OS X new feature called Time Machine. In this article I’ll show how to do it, but there is still a nice GUI missing – for those who like it shiny.