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2007

Brady Forrest

Brady Forrest

Django: Python Framework

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Django, the Python web-application framework, now has its own gallery site. Djangosites now has 159 sites listed. To be listed the site must have been made with Django. You can view sites by rating, comment, and latest. Djangosites also makes it easy to find sites that make their source code available. I find it very easy to pick out sites created with Rails, they mostly have a similar feel. Looking through the gallery I don't find the same thing with Django sites.

I am sure that the gallery site will expand in time. Python book sales are up and I suspect that Django is a part of it (the sales of the forthcoming book will be the real telltale). Django is also starting to expand internationally. As listed in the June 26th Django Status Update, Django-fr and Django En Español were recently created. The update also mentions new Django support for S3 and Capistrano's new support for deploying Django apps. All of these things make the road to adoption that much easier for developers and companies deciding on their platform.


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  Nicola Larosa [06.29.07 01:07 AM]

The URL for the Django book should be this one:

http://www.djangobook.com/

or this other one, your choice: :-)

http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10176

  Manuel [06.29.07 01:32 AM]

Hi, according to Apress the Django book will be published in september 2007. However you can read the beta version at www.djangobook.com. Another great site is www.djangosnippets.org, where users can share "snippets" of reusable Django code. You're right: Python book sales are up and Django is a part of it. But don't forget that many great resources for learning Python (and Django) are freely available online, so book sales are not a reliable popularity indicator.

  Manuel [06.29.07 01:49 AM]

Just 2 notes.

Python book sales will be up this year also because O'Reilly will publish the new edition of "Learning Python": http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Python-Mark-Lutz/dp/0596513984/

Moreover there is great excitemente around Python 3000, the next generation of the language:

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208549

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6459339159268485356

  ToddG [06.29.07 07:33 AM]

In other python web app news, Turbogears is going to be reassembled on top of Pylons, and the excellent SQLAlchemy has a (non-ORA) book in the works. Things seem to be coalescing a bit and picking up some steam in python webland... some even mumble about Django being built on Pylons and SA someday, though that day seems pretty distant... regardless, good news all around!

  pk11 [06.30.07 07:30 AM]

pownce.com, the new startup of kevin rose is also built on top of django:

http://pownce.com/about/

  Daniel [07.01.07 02:37 PM]

Wow, I'm very impressed! I take a look at the featured Professional Sites and your right - most of them look really different...

@pk11

Yesterday seen at cssmania... but no idea, that this site has been made with the Django Framework. Thxs for the hint...

  Ross Poulton [07.03.07 05:31 PM]

Hey, thanks for the link!

It was exciting when we launched Djangosites to see the wide range of new sites being added to the list. There are certainly some awesome looking sites - we're also seeing people take Adrian Holovaty's[1] advice - if you've got the data in the database, you can present it in some really cool ways. Django makes that easier.

Ross
www.djangosites.org
www.rossp.org

[1]http://www.holovaty.com

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