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• Django, a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
• http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/overview/
• Presentation introducing Django
  
  
• Django for non-programmers
  
  
• http://dpaste.com/
  • publish code for review/help
• http://www.djangosnippets.org/
  
  
• Instant Django - one click, no install dev-environment
  
  
• DjangoStack - installer that greatly simplifies the installation of Django and its runtime dependencies.

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• Wired Magazine, April 2008, page 44. Expired: ASP.NET, Tired: PHP, Wired: Django.

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• Django cheat sheet
• Django search engine

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Key features of Django [1]:

1. A URL dispatcher
2. A database wrapper
3. A template system
4. An admin framework
   

Philosophy, Architecture, Design

ModelViewController

• Design philosophies
• How Django processes a request (toberead)

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• Introducing Django
  
  
• http://lesscode.org/2005/07/15/django/
  
• Django Cheat Sheet
  • via http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/07/django-cheat-sheet.html
    
  
  
• Django Gotchas
  
• Django First Impressions
  
• Exciting developments with Django
  
• Shifting Gears: Switching to Django
  
  
• Top ten reasons to use Django for your web framework
  • Why Django is better than Jakarta Struts/Tiles, Spring, PHP Smarty, Zope, and Plone.
• Why you should use Django
  
• Django encourages Flow (also see TheFlow)
  
  
• Django Gaining Steam, linking to an 'enlightening' video
  
  
• J2EE to Django, slides for the Presentation at Cambridge Python Meetup

Django and RubyOnRails

• SnakesAndRubies
  
  
• A Rails/Django Comparison
• Constructive reasons to use Django instead of Rails
  
  
• Rails vs Django Paper and Slides
  
• Test of MVC-frameworks (Django won)
  
  
• Ruby on Rails vs Django - Commercial #7, clip

Running Django

FastCGI

(fastcgi)

• Running Django with FCGI and nginx with GeoIP? base
• Running Django with FCGI and lighttpd instead of with ModPython
• http://rfc1437.de/page/django-lighttpd-and-fcgi-second-take/
• Django, Apache and FCGI
  • https://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/wiki/DjangoFcgi
  • Flup
• http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/OsxFcgi
  
• lighttpd, Django, and FastCGI
  
• Simpler Apache FCGI Django

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• http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ServerArrangements

Quick Links into documentation

• '''root'''
  
  
• http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/django_admin/
  
  
• Database API reference
• Request and response objects
  
  
• http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/authentication/

Templating

• The Django template language: For template authors
• The Django template language: For Python programmers
• Using kid with django

Utilities

• http://djangoutils.python-hosting.com/
• https://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/wiki/DjangoStuff

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Django's philosophy says "Explicit is better than implicit", but Django has all sorts of magic. Database models you create in one file magically appear someplace else deep inside the Django module with a different name. When your model function is called, new things have been added to its variable-space and old ones removed.[2]

offline deployment

• Deploying a Django app on the desktop
  • using cx_freeze?

AJAX?

• http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/AJAX
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.dojo.user/3603
• http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/07/02/django-and-ajax
• http://dojotoolkit.org/

Examples

• http://www2.ljworld.com/news/sports/game/
• http://www.frappr.com/django, a map with sites using django

Apps & Snippets

• http://lukeplant.me.uk/resources/djangovalidator/
• Building A Blog with Django
• Django Projects
  • Gallery
  • CMS
  • Django Stuff
    • https://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/wiki/AbstractTagging
    • Test Framework
  
  
• http://zyons.com/forum/ --a forum
  
• http://dshop.mine.nu/trac/wiki --a shopping cart?
  
• Django Basic Apps
  • blog, library, etc.
  
  
• Searching for that perfect Django Blog App

Hints, tipps 'n' tricks

• permissions for adding a poll
  
  
• Some django gotchas
  • view on site-link
  • using django's javascript
    
  
  
• Django performance tipps
• setting user passwords in admin
  • monkeypatching _pre_save()
  
  
• Django Generic Views: CRUD, easy CRUD? with generic views.
• http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/11/16/django-tips-get-most-out-generic-views
• http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2006/06/29/django-tips-extending-generic-views/

• is_authenticated() vs. is_anonymous()
  • using is_authenticated works even if user-variable is not defined.
    
  
  
• Django tips: laying out an application
  
• Serving Multiple Hosts from a Single Django Instance

automatically add current user to object

• access to id of current user on admin
  • ticket
  • http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CookBookManipulatorWithPostpopulatedFields
• [patch] CurrentUserField and manipulator changes
• Django Admin Hack - Fields varying with user permissions
  

teaming

• Using Django with a small team

UnitTesting

• Django Unit Testing

Separate serving of dynamically generated and media-files

Apache cannot be optimized to handle both types optimally.

• How I'm using Amazon S3 to serve media files

Webhosts supporting Django

• ModPythonHosts
• http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts
• Django on Rimuhosting
• http://www.gypsyhosting.com/