Re: Django advocacy in a commercial environment

2007-07-20 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Python and Django wouldn't be my concern when hiring new employees > since they are easy to learn. It's all the other stuff that comes > with web development that together is harder to find (eg: valid > (x)HTML, CSS, Javascript, database, source control,

Re: Django advocacy in a commercial environment

2007-07-20 Thread Rob Hudson
On Jul 20, 2:09 am, "Jon Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't mean to pry, but at your workplace have you had any difficulty > hiring into Python/Django roles at your company (compared to PHP)? Do > you get less applicants? A better quality of applicant? We only have 2 developers and

Re: Django advocacy in a commercial environment

2007-07-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 20-Jul-07, at 2:39 PM, Jon Atkinson wrote: > I don't mean to pry, but at your workplace have you had any difficulty > hiring into Python/Django roles at your company (compared to PHP)? Do > you get less applicants? A better quality of applicant? my experience is: no qualified applicants -

Re: Django advocacy in a commercial environment

2007-07-20 Thread Jon Atkinson
Thanks for your reply, Rob. Personally, the reason we're looking to push Django is that our business needs very much match a statement Simon made in the talk I mentioned above: 'Web development on journalism deadlines' (that might not be entirely accurate). I was also considering putting

Re: Django advocacy in a commercial environment

2007-07-19 Thread Rob Hudson
On Jul 19, 1:19 am, "Jon Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anyone has any good resources which show off the power of Django > (and by association, the benefits of PHP), then please share them with > us. Where I work we migrated away from PHP to Django with great success but it depends on

Re: Django advocacy in a commercial environment

2007-07-19 Thread Jon Atkinson
Oops, a quick edit - that last sentence should of course read: ...'benefits *over* PHP'... --Jon On 7/19/07, Jon Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Having just finished a couple of large projects in PHP4, our > department (of 5 programmers) is looking to move to PHP5 - but me and

Django advocacy in a commercial environment

2007-07-19 Thread Jon Atkinson
Hello, Having just finished a couple of large projects in PHP4, our department (of 5 programmers) is looking to move to PHP5 - but me and another on the team have been pushing towards using Python/Django in future. While everyone sees the benefits of moving to Python (namespaces! enforced