I've just spent the last two days playing around with Google's AppEngine , and I like it. When my language of choice was perl , I wrote plain ole CGI web applications (if you can call them that) using perl's CGI module . In the python world though, web frameworks and WSGI seem to be the way to do things, so I've known for a while that I needed to learn one of the many frameworks out there. I spent about a week getting my head around TurboGears and the concepts of ORM a year or so ago using the TurboGears book . After a week I has finished the book and has the sample app working but had no more time left to spend on the project. Obviously, not using it, I've long since forgotten all of the TurboGears specific stuff. I had through to given Django my next try but AppEngine caught my eye in the meantime. AppEngine has a nice Getting Started Guide which I used to get a simple little application up and running on the local development web server included in the SDK ...