Some Django propaganda:
Video killed the radio star
The talk I gave last week at Google is now up on Google Video. I covered similar ground to what Adrian talked about at Snakes and Rubies so if you haven’t seen that one, watch it, too.
Django for non-programmers
My friend and colleague Jeff Croft launched his new website built with Django. Jeff has followed it up the launch with an introduction to Django for non-programmers that’s required reading for anything thinking about switching to Django.
A success story
Eric Walstad (who I was lucky enough to meet at the Django meetup in Palo Alto) posted a J2EE to Django success story on django-users. He went from 40k lines of Java/JSP — without unit tests or documentation — to 25k lines of Python/Django templates complete with docstrings and unit tests. He writes that the project “has been a huge success for me, my team and our clients.”
Awesome!
If you’ve got a similar Django success story, I encourage you to post it to django-users — they’re so much fun to read.
Comments:
Just watched the presentation at google, I couldn't really make out the name for the load balancer, is it "Perlbow" ?
Frido: It's Perlbal. See http://www.danga.com/perlbal/ for more info.
The presentation is really great. I really enjoyed it, even though I'm really familiar with how Django works. It's great to hear how Django works in the real world.
BTW, I reckon the template system is really cool, despite what some of the comments were. Keep up the great work!
Jacob, your presentation was VERY convincing. Together with "Django for non-programmers" this made me feel like "when is the first occasion to try Django on a real project"? Keep on the good work.
If you don't mind me asking... what linux distro do you all use for your production server? I'm seeing very few stable distro releases providing postgresql 8.0 or 8.1 packages.
With a few exceptions[*], I use Ubuntu (server profile) both at work and on my personal servers. PostgreSQL 8.1 is in the Breezy "backports" repository, and I strongly recommend installing it (gave me about a 25% speedup!)
I'm very much looking forward to the "Dapper" release (mid-June, I think?) and its guarenteed 5-year support.
[*] Some older servers at work which we haven't gotten around to upgrading still run RedHat ES, which is a major PITA and not at all recommended.
Jacob!!!
Dave tipped me off about your upcoming wedding. Mazel Tov!!!
Drop me a line! taltman <a t] gmail . commerce
Hey Jacob,
So after getting fed up with Ruby I decided to see what web frameworks were available for Python; imagine my surprise when I clicked on some random Google video describing one of them and saw you! It really was strange to see you presenting on a programming framework instead of gender roles and the media ;-)
Anyhow, we should totally catch up, so drop me a line when you have time (machineghost, of the domain gmail).
What is this all about???
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