“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.”
Read the article in full – Django Best Practices.
There’s plenty of material (documentation, blogs, books) out there that’ll help you write a site using Django… but then what? You’ve still got to test, deploy, monitor, and tune the site; failure at deployment time means all your beautiful code is for naught.
Read Read World Django as it unfolds the tutorial which examines how best [...]
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The Washington Times has used open source projects for some time now. All of our servers run Ubuntu linux. Our database servers use PostgreSQL. Our web servers use lighttpd and Apache httpd, and memcached. We develop entirely in python, using [...]
“These are the sorts of differences seen in both stacks. They are common, and commonly pivotal to arguments comparing the two frameworks. Proponents of one framework typically argue one way ‘because it is the way decreed by our language authors’. So really you’re looking at which language you prefer.”
(Via: SuperJared)
The main objectives of South are to provide a simple, stable and database-independent migration layer to prevent all the hassle schema changes over time bring to your Django applications.
Scott Hacker, has posted an interesting, and quite detailed post discussing a developer’s move to Django. It’s both a personal account and a researched account, which makes for a strong post.
Read the article — Notes on a Django Migration.
Gustavo Picon, announced his new project django-taggable. As the author describes, django-taggable is “An efficient, denormalized and multidimensional tagging library for Django 1.0+”
Following Django’s previously-announced schedule, the Django team has released Django 1.0.1. This is a bugfix-only release containing fixes and improvements to the Django 1.0 codebase, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone using or targeting Django 1.0.
Anyone who has used Django for just about any length of time has probably used a Django model, and possibly wondered how it works. The key to the whole thing is what’s known as a metaclass, a metaclass is essentially a class that defines how a class is created.
Read the article in full — How [...]
Well, we’ve been working hard to improvise our codebase and enhance a lot of the internal code framework. The broad updates with this beta release are
Upgraded to the more powerful Python 2.5 Release.
Upgraded the code to the sparkling new Django 1.0.
Added the ability to easily add photos — service starting with Flickr, more services will [...]
“There are quite a few great little tricks and tips one could use on their Django projects that would speed up development and save many headaches in the long run. From basic to obscure, these tips can help any skill-level of programmer become more adept with Django and all it’s glory.” Via: NetTuts.