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Nice! I was just reevaluating the django cms world and happened to stumble on this post.

Any support for multiple languages, yet?

The other comment describes the situation with mezzanine accurately.

I'm actually doing this now. We're using jekyll for a tablet magazine site with several non technical staff using github and prose to manage the content.

It's actually going fairly well. There have definitely been some issues, but it's been great.

https://github.com/ecotrust/commonplace

Prose.io is still fairly new, but it's open source and is seeing heavy development.

I do a lot of django, so I wanted mezzanine to work out. Unfortunately, it's a challenege.

Wordpress is wordpress. You're stuck with php and mysql. (ick).

Jekyll is awesome and together with http://prose.io, it's basically a cms.

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/07/27/build-cms-free-we...

Actually, I reloaded the issue and it was closed. Looks like digital ocean wins :)

It doesn't seem to work with puppet. Only chef: https://github.com/smdahlen/vagrant-digitalocean/issues/37

This kicks ass.

I'm curious about why people jump on angular without even checking out knockoutjs. Knockout provides similar functionality with slightly less code. The demo/doc site is incredible.

I think it is also interesting that since backbone all the hot front end frameworks are of the model binding variety. Honestly when you do stuff like angular or knockout backbone just feels clunky.

I know that there are model binding plugins for backbone, but you still end up writing a bunch more code.

Jekyll just generates static html, so you can host it anywhere.

Honestly, this is the best suggestion, here. You can build anything you want with jekyll and never have to worry about stupid mysql/php crap ever again.

Knockout is great. I've been using it heavily for the last year.

Customizing it with less is really pretty straightforward.

You can also generate custom css from the website. Just click the customize tab in the topbar. You can bump up @baseFontSize. 16px works very well. You might also want to increase the @baseLineHeight a bit as well.

I may be biased, but I'd second the nominations for Portland, Oregon. A lot of interesting things are happening. Acquisitions and funding have been intense. Check out the list: http://aaronparecki.com/Portland_Funding_and_Acquisitions

The only one I'm listening to at the moment is nodeup: http://nodeup.com/

The podcasters are some of the central figures in the node world and always have useful content.

What's up with the downvotes? I was just commenting that dreadnot uses twitter bootstrap.

Seems like it would violate the heroku terms of service to wake up the free dyno.

twitter bootstrap!

Cool, I saw her garden automation talk at osbridge!

Sorry to hear that he is still missing. :(

I would never have thought that MySQL could handle massive databases, but it honestly isn't that bad. You just can't expect it to behave like a normal database.

I had to use mysql to build a 200 million row 200gb database. The trick was using myisam and indexing it as little as possible (just the pk). I used sphinx to handle full text searching. Searching and retrieving records was very fast.

I personally would love to see a service like you are talking about.

I recently did an ask hn in search of a payment service and someone else posted a similar question today. Seems like there is some need for that sort of thing.

I just asked a similar question and got some good responses: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3138574

Sounds like paypal might be viable.

If you aren't looking for an API solution, you might want to check this out: http://zips.sourceforge.net/

It isn't the most recent data, but it ought to get you started.

That looks good. It would be like an affiliate program.

I don't know why I have an aversion to paypal, though. I just want "stripe for payments". I don't think it exists, though.

Yes, US. Sorry to make the assumption!

All payments would be domestic, at least at first. But I would love to make it international at some point. Thanks!

Seems like it could use stripe fairly easily.

Love your work in Silverchair.