4 Hour Liveblog: Website development with Django and Pinax

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I’ve tinkered with Django before and really liked it. I’ve recently heard about Pinax, which is an open-source set of Django applications that are designed for general “plug and play”-like use on a variety of websites. Many of the features of Pinax are elements that would be great to implement on this portal site I need to work on.

Scaling Django Web Application 1 year 15 weeks ago

Mike's talk-although Django specific--will really help anyone creating applications on the web. There's a lot of useful Django specific advice and a lot of general good design ideas as well. The topics covered in the talk are:
# Django uses a shared nothing architecture.
* The database is responsible for scaling state.
* Application servers are horizontally scalable because they are stateless.

Generating RSS Mashups from Django 45 weeks 4 days ago

I recently got to work on an interesting Django side project: the Bay News Network – a directory of Bay Area bloggers and hyperlocal news sites. The goal of the site was three-fold:
1. To create a many-to-many directory of local sites that matched our editorial criteria
2. To let site owners log in and edit their own listings
3. To both consume and produce RSS feeds from the listed sites

6 Open source Ruby on Rail based CMS 40 weeks 2 days ago

Ruby On Rails is an open source Web framework that help you to create web applications more easier, faster & write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. There are lots of websites that use Ruby On Rails, including popular ones like Twitter, Basecamp, AboutUs, Yellow Pages & many more.

Deploying Django applications to a production server 1 year 21 weeks ago

In this article, you will learn about the Django framework and how to install it on your local machine. Discover how a Django application is made and about the automatic administration interface created for your application. You will then find out how to deploy your Django application to the Web on a server running Apache and mod_python.

PHP Doctrine introduction for dummies 36 weeks 6 days ago

It was long overdue but finally I’ve taken a look at Doctrine. And I’m blown away, bye bye Zend DB.

I’ve been whining about Zend Controller before, how it forces me to do things I don’t want to do. Therefore it’s my intention to simply write my own routing and I’m ....

Django Best Practices 1 year 21 weeks ago

This is a living document of best practices in developing and deploying with the Django Web framework. These should not be seen as the right way or the only way to work with Django, but instead best practices we’ve honed after years of working with the framework.

Learning Django by Example(1): Start the Engine 1 year 31 weeks ago

This is yet another Django tutorial, it makes a difference since
* the author is totally a noob about Django programming, he has little experience on database and Web framework. You may find it interesting how a newbie benefit from the elegant design of Django.

Introduction to Django for Beginners 1 year 26 weeks ago

A good slideshow that talks about Django web app, why Django and who uses Django.

Django 2.0 1 year 31 weeks ago

“Django 2.0” is, apparently, built on the Django 0.96.2 codebase, which is rather interesting since that means it could be missing:
1. At least one criticial security fix (that’s why we had a Django 0.96.3).
2. The refactored Django ORM, including much more flexible query backends and support for model inheritance (queryset-refactor happened after 0.96).