This is a note for my earliest supporters; those of you who put up Singularity badges on your blogs and sites before Singularity was even revealed as a web conference. If you're part of this group, you will have had an email from me when Singularity was revealed*.

As I promised you back in February, your ticket, and one for your friend will be half price.

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I can't believe I missed this when it first came out (it was probably because I'd just started on the my crazy two-month trip to simultaneously learn Google App Engine, brush up my Python, and build the new Singularity web site):

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Tickets and micro-sponsorships for the Singularity Web Conference have started!

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Wow, building the new Singularity web site on Google App Engine has been a lovely adventure! (One that I look forward to sharing with you after tomorrow's launch.)

And now the site is ready to start accepting ticket sales.

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You know, if there's one truism about web development, it's really easy. Except when it's not.

I was gearing up to launch the new Singularity web site this morning when I started noticing random errors on the deployment environment last night.

The errors feel like they are related to how long calls are taking to return from PayPal to Google App Engine. It's a hairy one because everything works perfectly well on the local development server and randomly fails in the deployment environment on Google App Engine (and it doesn't fail with a DeadlineExceededError, as you would expect). Just to keep things interesting, the behavior between the PayPal Sandbox and live environments is also different (works on the Sandbox, randomly fails on live.)

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