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Introduction to Django: The Who, What, and When

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Cooking
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osb2009-0120
Session notes

Excerpt

This is *not* a build-a-blog-in-20-minutes presentation. This for anyone who's heard about Django, maybe run through the tutorial, and are wondering where they should use it first.

Description

So you’ve done the tutorial. Maybe you’ve even built a small Django app just to see how it works. But maybe you’re already a savvy web developer who is already fairly happy with your current system. Or maybe you’re not a web developer but would like to learn more about web development.

  • What is Django? What isn’t Django?
  • Who makes Django? Who Uses it? What’s the community like?
  • When should you use Django? What does it excel at? Where might you run into some rough edges?

We’ll go a bit beyond those questions as well with:

  • How do I get started with Django?
  • What are some alternatives?

The goal of this presentation isn’t to convince anyone to use Django. Rather, the goal is to enable everyone to make an informed decision about the development platform they choose.

Tags

web, python, django

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Speaker

  • Schmichael-2009

    Michael Schurter

    Lo-Fi Art, LLC

    Biography

    Michael Schurter is a Python web developer at Lo-Fi Art in Portland. He spends his days hacking Django, CherryPy, jQuery, non-relational databases, and a bunch of other fun technologies while trying to forget his past life working with PHP and ASP.NET in a small Midwestern startup. He’s an active member in the Portland Python User Group and has the requisite serious-computer-hacker beard.

    Sessions

    • * Web Server Shootout
      • Title: Web Server Shootout
      • Track: Chemistry
      • Room: Hawthorne
      • Time: 5:00 – 5:45pm
      • Excerpt:

        Deploying your .com behind nginx so you’re ready to handle that flood of users on launch day? Wondering if you should use mod_python, mod_wsgi, or FastCGI to deploy your new Django project? This presentation will present comprehensive and practical benchmarks across a wide variety of metrics to help you make an informed decision.

      • Speakers: Michael Schurter