"What's a Django?": comment by Lee Phillips

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:01:40 NZST

I took a look at the 37 Signals site and it doesn’t resemble the Django site at all. What are you talking about?

"What's a Django?": comment by Adrian Holovaty

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:48:56 NZST

You didn’t waste your evening. :-)

Actually, we’ve been using and developing Django over the last two years at the Web operation I work for. It’s completely inaccurate to say it’s influenced by Ruby on Rails.

"What's a Django?" by jvoorhis

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:10:00 NZST

Django is the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. They have a site that shamelessly plunders the 37 Signals aesthetic, and unoriginally makes some of the same claims as Rails, but verbatim! It’s also written in Python.

So why do I care? Well, for starters it seems to have a different intent than Rails – rather than provide you with a framework for doing things, it provides a framework that does things. Huh? Upon running django-admin.py init, it created 15 database tables. Instead of scaffolding, it provides a “production ready dynamic admin”. It’s heavily influenced by Rails, but it functions at an even higher level.

I just started the tutorial and I will blog my impressions about it later, probably tonight.

Some concerns:

How capable is the auth&auth system it wants me to use?
How much complexity do I have to introduce before the dynamic admin chokes?
Did I just waste my evening?

jvoorhis comments on What's a Django?

"What's a Django?": comment by Lee Phillips

"What's a Django?": comment by Adrian Holovaty

"What's a Django?" by jvoorhis