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Like I said in this post, google app engine feels like this brand new, shiny toy that I just want to play with all day.  Over the past 4 or 5 days I’ve been spending a couple hours a night playing with it and here is my stream-of-consciousness Cliff’s Notes:

• App Engine is incredibly streamlined
• The development environment is well documented and easy to use
• Setting the dev environment up with Eclipse was a breeze thanks to this post
• I decided to hop right into django - i’ve been wanting to test it out
• Django is nice, but I still think CakePHP runs circles around it as far as frameworks go
• Python is amazing - it just feels light and agile and I just want to touch it

I’m working on a little Technology Demo for Figaro Interactive on the app engine.  After about 8 hours or so, I’d say it’s about 40% complete - not bad.  I attribute a lot of that to App Engine’s steamlined-liness (that’s a word I swear), also a lot of it to how much a pleasure python is to work with.  I’ll release more details about the technology demo when it’s closer to releasing.

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