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mercurytide.com — "Have you found that, no matter that you use the same functions and methods every day, you can't quite remember the syntax? Them too. That's why they've written a cheat sheet for Django". - looks lovely guys, and plenty of useful stuff to boot! If only all cheat sheets were this good!

Who dugg this? Made popular Feb 13, 2007

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  • Drehmini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17http://www.djangoproject.com/
    "Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design."
  • nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11YEAH! He didn't need a cheat-sheet. All he needed was two fingers and he wrote some of the hardest to play songs ever.
  • SicSevens, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I clicked on this link because I thought it might have something to do with the jazz man. Unfortunately, it's about a language I have no clue about.
  • CircleFusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Want to know more about Django?
    Have questions?
    The website URL has been posted above, but here are a couple of forums.

    http://www.nabble.com/Django-f16208.html
    http://djangoforums.org/

    an IRC channel
    irc://irc.freenode.net/django

    Mailing lists
    http://groups.google.com/group/django-users
    http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers

    finally... the FAQ
    http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/faq/
  • Ricapar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8For those who don't know what Dijango is:
    http://www.djangoproject.com/
  • PaperMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10This wouldn't be named after Django Reinhardt the Gypsy guitarist would it (he was in a horrible fire which effectively ruined his left hand so he really only had 2 fingers left that worked with any sort of actual motion but he is argued to play the fastest and most crisp chromatic runs on his guitar)?
  • inerte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yes, it's named after him.
  • xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@burke
    Snakes on a Train!
  • vitalityjtw, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'm just starting django... this is just what I need :)
  • Mach5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3no xml situps, no annoying configuration, no mind numbing syntax, automatically created administration backend, super easy caching, super easy scaling, builtin easy to use secure user accounts, clean urls, its very fast and lightweight, and its PYTHON. once you go python, you don't go back.
  • burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Think Python on Rails and you've got the basic idea.
  • sandro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@funkytaco,
    I wouldn't say that django is in widespread use but it is being used by some big names including the Washington Post and a good number of The E.W. Scripps newspaper websites (ellington might be more appropriate).

    see http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoPoweredSites for more examples.
  • jaxxon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And he was illiterate.

    I'm listening to Django-inspired gypsy jazz right now... 20 minutes before heading to rehearsal with my Django-style gypsy jazz band. ;-)
  • eelco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Don't forget the book:
    http://www.djangobook.com/
  • dlsspy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Do any of you expect it to be around for a long time? It seems interesting, but I'm comfortable with LAMP."

    It's been around for a long time, and I expect it to continue to be around for quite a while.

    Honestly, I'm surprised that anyone would still be using LAMP (for perl or PHP) for doing anything. They seem so backward after using the stuff that's evolved in the last few years (and yes, neat things have been done with PHP, but I just can't get interested in the platform).

    The last few web projects I've put together where I didn't have to use Java have been done with Django. I was going to give the random unbelievable anecdotal evidence as to how great it is, but you may as well just watch the Google Tech Talk on it from last April: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-70449010942275062

    My server for most of these projects is FreeBSD. I've since dumped Apache for Lighttpd (which saved me *huge* amounts of memory), DB is Postgres, and interfaces are Django or Java. FLPD|J, FTW as it were.
  • outoforder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Do any of you expect it to be around for a long time? It seems interesting, but I'm comfortable with LAMP."

    The "P" in LAMP can also mean Perl or Python...

    Django is a web framework, not a solution stack.
  • outoforder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Agility doesn't always mean better. There are other factors such as scalability, security, and in the case of Rails, availability.
  • funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5So is Django in widespread use? I've never heard of it before?

    Do any of you expect it to be around for a long time? It seems interesting, but I'm comfortable with LAMP.
  • dafragsta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Django is one of a few new "silver bullet" frameworks designed to make web development more "agile." I'm not using the "bunny fingers" to be sarcastic, these are just the words people are throwing around for frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Zope/Plone, Django, Cake, and a few others. Honestly though, all of these frameworks offer something up for the ambitious web developer with an idea. Personally, I prefer Ruby on Rails, which I've spent quite a bit of time with, but I've read up on all of them. In the end, it's about whichever you feel most comfortable with.
  • j3one, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3hey, good job on this!
  • desiTek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1how do u rate Django if compare to other frame work in .net and j2ee?
  • outoforder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've been playing around with Django for a couple months and it's pretty cool. But I recommend Cheetah if you just want a template system.

    www.cheetahtemplate.org
  • illicium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Headlines are in Helvetica (or a derivative), the monospaced font is Monaco.
  • adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1define: agile

    Is it one of those Web 2.0 buzzwords?
  • LFTravel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think Django encourages good site construction more than ASP.NET. I often work on ASP.NET sites that other people build and they are generally constructed very badly (with a small percentage of exceptions). The people who built Django had the right idea.
  • sandro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@desiTek,
    Well, ummm...I think web development needs to be agile.

    What is a more agile language, Python, C#, or Java?
  • mikeylopez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2what's the font used on the image?
  • adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It can do less, but, what it can do it will do in an very elegant fashion.

    I use ASP.NET, and to get the same features for web development that Django offers out of the box I have to use Gentle.net and Urlrewriting.net. Django will get newbs who don't care about code completion or fancy IDEs working in a structured fashion faster. However, it has more limited database support, etc.
  • nihilocrat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@adolfojp
    Not really, it's been around for awhile.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_programming
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Have ever you, them it what, method day, same, it, them, who it which?
  • ithildin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0For a moment, I also thought Digg.com had unearthed a trick to allow anyone to easily play as Django.

    sigh...
  • nihilocrat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0@xxNIRVANAxx
    I'm going to proceed to call Django "Snakes on a Train" from now on and see if people can figure out what I'm talking about.

    I'm looking at this cheatsheet and thinking, "Half the reason why there is a type legend on this sheet is because Python is really goddamn annoying with its 'everything is typeless... just kidding!' dynamic typing". Does anyone know of a way of working with dynamic typing that won't cause headaches? Whenever a project gets significantly complicated I always encounter 40 billion type-related errors at runtime because I don't know what type half the variables I'm using are.

    Strangely enough, I still really like the language because it allows me to barf out code as fast as Perl does, but I'm actually able to read it afterwards!
  • coulix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0sweeet
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  • madcap, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Django cheat sheets, that's a good idea.
  • 47knight, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2What the heck is Django?!
    lol i bet most people dugg this just to look smart.

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