Django community

[David Grant]

Here is an article praising Django's community:
http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/seemant/2006/10/04/communities_django_is_one

I seem to remember Guido saying good things about Django's community
when he talked at the 2006 Vancouver Python Workshop.

[Mike Cantelon]

I've found the Django community very helpful as well.

Given the userbase of Python, the Django team's marketing, and the
enthusiasm of the Django community, I could see Django, in a year or
two, ending up as widely adopted as Rails is now.

Here are some interesting Django-related links I've ran across:

Comparing the Performance of Django, Rails, and Symfony (PHP5):
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Framework+Performance

Video of Django Founder Talking About Project and History:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3548805983075267875

Switching From Rails to Django:
http://www.domaki.com/posts/2006/sep/11/switching-rails-django/

Web Faction ($15 US/month Django/Rails Hosting):
http://www.webfaction.com/shared_hosting

For those new to Django, here's a (much too) short presentation I did
earlier this year at Bar Camp which runs through the basics:

http://www.zohoshow.com/public/mcantelon/Django

And, because nothing is perfect, Jeff Croft's "Top 10 Things that Suck
About Django". :)

http://www2.jeffcroft.com/2006/jul/20/top-ten-things-suck-about-django/

Mike Cantelon
Vancouver Open Business
http://vanopen.biz

[David Grant]

On 10/4/06, Mike Cantelon <mcan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Comparing the Performance of Django, Rails, and Symfony (PHP5):
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Framework+Performance

Nice link.

Interesting that he suggests trying psyco at the bottom of the
article. I have NEVER noticed psyco to make much difference in
anything I have done in python. Nothing more than a factor of < 2.

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David Grant
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