Comments on: Top ten reasons to use Django for your web framework

By: Adam Isler

Adam Isler — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:29:38 +0000

Found your blog surfing and I wanted to add my 2c:

#1: There are some things that I would say aren’t “right now”. I’m really waiting for them to overhaul the manipulator stuff which I think is coming in the next version. I mean, Django is totally usable today, but there are some places where it is a bit verbose for what actually needs to be done.

#2 & 3: This is key. I’ve never been happy with the way most non-PHP things deploy (and never happy with how PHP stuff is coded). Django was so supremely easy to set up and deploy and doesn’t error or go down (a problem I have had with Rails in shared setups).

#4: In my experience, Django (the whole system) is faster than most templating systems, never mind application frameworks. Frankly, Django is able to render pages faster than PHP can include ADOdb. It’s also a good bit faster than Rails. There is a downside to this though. Django likes you to declare all your imports. For example, in Rails I could just call Story.find(:id) while in Django I would have to do from mysite.stories.models import Sroty, from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, Story.objects.get(id=id). I’m guessing that the Django devs assumed that 10 seconds of my time was worth the speed advantage of loading only what is needed. It may just be a Python thing as well.

#10: Django has an interesting community. There’s lots of help in the Rails community too and I’m not sure that there is too much difference there. I think the most interesting distinction is that Adrian and Jacob are the ones who write a lot about it – like, they’re writing the Django book, they wrote Pro Django. DHH (Rails creator) doesn’t author the books about Rails. I don’t know whether that is good or bad, just a distinction.

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By: Django and Dreamhost - not now - Coder’s Eye

Django and Dreamhost - not now - Coder’s Eye — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:38:29 +0000

[...] Argh! I simply cannot get Django to work on Dreamhost. I hereby eat my words. Iâ€™m really not worried about it, to be honest. [...]

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:59:55 +0000

Well, I haven’t actually set it up on Dreamhost yet.

I’m really not worried about it, to be honest. I’m pretty good at that sort of thing, and I’ve already figured out how to install much trickier things (see my Cheetah Templates installation instructions).

Also, I’ve got help. I use the “project_template” helper utility to set up my projects, and it makes an appropriate Dreamhost fastCGI config for me.

Still, I am finally at a good stopping point on one of my Django projects, so I’ll be testing soon. I’ll be sure to post about it then.

By: Jason Lefkowitz

Jason Lefkowitz — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:51:22 +0000

Bruce,

thanks for taking the time to write this stuff up — as a happy DreamHoster of many years who’s just getting into Python, it’s very helpful!

How’s your experience been getting Django running on DH? I have to admit, when I see things like this, they tend to scare me:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Django

http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/921592d0c29573f8/2452af46c986d70e

Have you found Django-on-DH to be more of a joy, or more of a pain?