Hi Sparky, I've personally been using Django for approximately 3 years now - so I'll offer you my own opinion.
In some ways, it is the most beautiful/perfect framework currently available.. and in other ways, it leaves a sense of disappointment and frustration. * Community - possibly one of the best/most helpful I've seen so far. Don't drink the free bear though, try and help out where you can! * Core devs - although sometimes they can seem a bit uppity, they /usually/ know what their talking about and make good decisions * django-admin - beautiful if you want a simple staff only admin interface for your data.. terrible if you want to make custom modifications * Models - the main reason I love Django so much. The models 'just work', and the query API is lovely. Still room for improvement, but so much better than sqlalchemy * Views - class based views are great, but I personally feel that the pre-made TemplateView/ListView is atrocious. I always use a generic View and build my own structure. * Middleware and DB routers - really handy, and again it just works * Probably tons of other little things that I forgot There is of course some overhead and a somewhat steep learning curve (depending on your background) in getting a base project configured, but don't let this put you off. Working with a framework is like any relationship... you make sacrifices.. the love you get back depends on what you put in.. and it's not just about the end goal, it's about how you got there. Cal On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:29 PM, sparky <cfspa...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks Nik, > > > On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:36:42 PM UTC, sparky wrote: >> >> I'm hoping this is the right place to ask such questions, please forgive >> me if not. >> >> I'm making a real time investment in learning another server side >> language. I have 10 years ColdFusion, 5 years PHP, JAVA. Having never >> touched Python let alone the framework Django, for the past 4 weeks I have >> been testing Django out. Darn, Raspberry Pi started me with my blog ( >> http://www.glynjackson.org/**blog/ <http://www.glynjackson.org/blog/>) I >> have to say its nice, however my concerns are now to do with the community >> and not so much with the framework itself. >> >> No one likes to back a loser and every time I search for Django community >> I'm faced with a host of negative posts. for example: >> http://news.ycombinator.com/**item?id=2777883<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2777883> >> >> >> Unlike other languages I'm active in and still use, I'm also finding it >> hard to find any user groups locally in the UK (I'm based in Manchester, >> UK). >> >> So from the community itself how alive is Django? Should I really invest >> the time to learn? Does it have a real future and please be honest. >> >> other questions.... >> >> 1) is this worth going? --- http://2013.djangocon.eu >> 2) who are the top blogs people within the Django community who should I >> be following, blogs feed etc. >> >> Sorry for the stupid questions, but and just want a new skillset that I >> can use for many years to come. Django is really cool >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/_dUN6Su5roIJ. > > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
