thomasmallen -- A shortcut for run is a good idea... you should add it as a suggestion to my issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/issues/list
Also, don't forget my code is all open source: http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/source/browse/... You can pull it down from SVN and run your own local copy w/ app engine dev server in 10 minutes.