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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]