I just sent off my first patch for Django. It adds the ability to send mail via SMTP servers which require authentication. I need this for Dreamhost, which has authentication on its mail servers.
The modifications were simple, and the code I was modifying was refreshingly clean. Better yet, the Django project site […]
Any programmer will tell you that one of the characteristics of really getting into a programming "flow" is that your mind is completely engaged.
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Last night I took a break from my most recent Django app, a mailing-list manager, to explore the new "Magic Removal Branch".
I diligently followed the instructions on the Django Wiki to change my existing code. There were more changes needed than I’d anticipated, but they all made sense, so I didn’t mind. Better, […]
One nice thing about Django is that unlike many frameworks, you do not have to “grok” the whole thing to be productive. In my case, I hadn’t read a lot of the documentation other than the tutorial and the details of a few of the features I need for my first app. So, imagine my happy surprise when I found the very nicely implemented “documentation” link in the automatically generated admin site.
Django is pulling ahead of every other web framework I’ve tried. For reference, that includes such recent heavy-hitters as: Jakarta Struts/Tiles, Spring, PHP Smarty, Zope, and Plone.
I’d been thinking about why that was so, why I’ve become so fond of Django so quickly, when I ran across a post at Jacobian.org, titled Why you […]
One thing I just don’t understand is why more people, especially framework designers, omit or skip logging. Django appears to, which is incredibly annoying to me. It is a complex framework, which makes all kinds of assumptions and relies on convention to infer a lot of functionality. That’s great, but being able […]
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Two simple links which have been very helpful in doing my inital Django project.
1) The Dreamhost installation guide on the DH wiki.
2) The Django project template utility, which sets up new projects and all the assorted config files to a much greater degree than the built-in django-admin.py utility. I’ve added a couple more templated […]
Django is one good web framework.