I’m doing a lot of web development work these days, and I have to say that I’m really digging Django. It’s a Python-based web application toolkit that makes it very simple to throw together a database-backed website, along the same lines as Ruby on Rails.
I tried RoR for awhile, but something about the framework (or maybe it was the language itself) didn’t click with me. I did some development work in Python a few years ago, so Django is a natural fit.
My favourite feature so far has to be the built-in admin interface. Depending on your application, you might not even have to write a full web app – just define some database models, activate the admin interface, and you have a full web interface to your data, with automatic history logging.
How sweet is that?
My name is Mike Kelly. I'm a Vancouver-based technologist and non-practicing physicist. strangely entangled is my home base on the internet. If you look hard enough you'll find some blog postings, articles, photos and other stuff I thought might be interesting
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