Your choice of payment processors ultimately determines the number of people who can potentially purchase your product or service. Looking at the differences between PayPal and Google Checkout, I couldn't find a comparison of the countries each processor supported so I quickly whipped up my own using the data presented in the country list drop-downs that each processor presents on its sign up page.

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When I first started looking at Django about two months ago, I was lamenting about how difficult it seemed (in comparison to PHP, for example) to get a simple data-driven project up and running and deployed. (Much of the difficulty is in getting MySQL running.)

Since then, of course, Google released Google App Engine and the Google App Engine Helper for Django, which make developing and deploying Python and Django applications child's play. I'd venture to say even easier than PHP (and Django/Python definitely teach you better practices in developing web applications than PHP does.)

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When I was first starting out with Google App Engine (GAE), I wrote a short post detailing my thoughts on whether to use Django or Google's own webapp framework for GAE projects. In that post, I concluded that "there isn't a compelling reason to use Django at the moment with GAE".

Since then, I've re-evaluated my decision and, a few weeks ago, I ported the Singularity web app to Django from webapp.

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OK, I couldn't help it. There's so much tabloid journalism going on in our industry these days that it's probably not long before we actually start seeing such titles. I'm waiting for: JEREMY KEITH IN ALIEN BABY CONSPIRACY!!! (all caps and three exclamation marks and all).

So what was I saying again? Oh yes, I've just sent an updated session description to Koen for my talk at Multi-Mania. Don't worry, the Google App Engine stuff is still in there (ooh, Google App Engine, yummm!) But there's more... :)

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First Rate's COO, Kevin Francis, just contacted me about the blog spam I received recently from their company:

It recently came to my attention that a First Rate consultant had engaged in less than optimal link building. First Rate does not support sub optimal link building and the consultant in this case was acting outside of company policy. The consultant in question has been reprimanded and we are investigating whether there are any other examples that need to be removed. We take these matters seriously and I apologise for this oversight.

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