Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-21 Thread Lachlan Musicman
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:14 PM, peter wrote: > > There is no stupid questions. There are only stupid answers Hi, welcome to the Django community. Stupid answers is my role, I'm the stupid answers coordinator for the Django email list project. Nice to meet you! L. -- You

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-20 Thread Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
"Working with a framework is like any relationship... you make sacrifices.. *the love you get back depends on what you put in*.." - hehe ... moving on swiftly ... Vis. the bears, I can only recommend bear spray - and a good one, at that. To address the queries at hand - coming from several

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-20 Thread Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
"Working with a framework is like any relationship... you make sacrifices.. *the love you get back depends on what you put in*.." - hehe ... moving on swiftly ... Vis. the bears, I can only recommend bear spray, or a dictionary - dependent on one's particular circumstances. To address the

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-20 Thread patrick
Two good resources off the top of my head (among many others that will probably be mentioned): Buddy Lindsey's GoDjango screencasts, they cover some good ground: http://godjango.com Also like Kenneth Love and Chris Jones' articles at http://brack3t.com -- You received this message because

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-20 Thread djangobie
Great question, and welcome to the group. I found quite few helpful posts here. and as per stats there are around 1k+ new posts every month. Me too, looking forward to some good blogs. -http://lincolnloop.com/blog/categories/django/ (Technical articles) -http://jacobian.org/writing/ (General to

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-20 Thread peter
On 12/19/2012 07:09 PM, Glyn Jackson wrote: @Odagi point well made. thanks for everyone for being so welcoming :0 I spent today building my first Django local site, ended up with 4 apps. taken me awhile to get my head around things i ended up with registration - handles my user signed

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread galgal
You should also look here: https://plus.google.com/communities/108940692418100611427 -- 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/-/XhlsXnUgj_QJ. To post

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread Glyn Jackson
@Odagi point well made. thanks for everyone for being so welcoming :0 I spent today building my first Django local site, ended up with 4 apps. taken me awhile to get my head around things i ended up with registration - handles my user signed security - login, logout web - flat pages

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread Odagi
In the last 24 hs 10 tickets have been modified in the Django Track system: https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned=new=reopened=1=changetime and 10 people have replied your email. IMHO, that's an active community for me. On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:36:42 PM UTC-3, Glyn

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread Bill Freeman
Particularly if it mellows them. Bill On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar < nik.mol...@consbio.org> wrote: > I think the bears should be free to drink the beer ;) > > _Nik > > > On 12/19/2012 6:25 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > > LOL omg, I just realised

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar
I think the bears should be free to drink the beer ;) _Nik On 12/19/2012 6:25 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > LOL omg, I just realised I was spelling beer wrong. > > Cal > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Tom Christie >

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread Timothy Makobu
This link is quite telling of what the Python community in general thinks of Django http://www.python.org/3kpoll On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: > LOL omg, I just realised I was spelling beer wrong. > > Cal > >

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
LOL omg, I just realised I was spelling beer wrong. Cal On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Tom Christie wrote: > > Is this worth going? --- http://2013.djangocon.eu > > Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. I've been to two DjangoCons, both have been > incredible, and have

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread peter
Yeah man, we are alive. :). You wanna be part of us. Don't be afraid, just take a seat, to share, implement, etc, etc. On 12/19/2012 10:32 AM, Tom Christie wrote: > Is this worth going? --- http://2013.djangocon.eu Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. I've been to two

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread Tom Christie
> Is this worth going? --- http://2013.djangocon.eu Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. I've been to two DjangoCons, both have been incredible, and have reaffirmed how proud I am to work in this industry, and to be a part of this community. > Who are the top blogs people within the Django community

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Sorry, slightly misworded! Don't /just/ drink the free bear, help out as well. Cal On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Chris Cogdon wrote: > But I _want_ to drink the free bear. > > On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 3:19:59 PM UTC-8, Cal Leeming [Simplicity > Media Ltd] wrote: >>

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-19 Thread Glyn Jackson
@Cal Leeming some really useful information and very honest. I'm loving using Django! -- 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/-/6tebKj_Jg-wJ. To

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-18 Thread Chris Cogdon
But I _want_ to drink the free bear. On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 3:19:59 PM UTC-8, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > > Don't drink the free bear though, ... > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-18 Thread donarb
On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 1:36:42 PM UTC-8, sparky wrote: > > > ... I'm also finding it hard to find any user groups locally in the UK > (I'm based in Manchester, UK). > > Sometimes Django does not have enough of a user base in an area for its own group, you might want to check out the

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-18 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
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

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-18 Thread sparky
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.

Re: Django community, is it active?

2012-12-18 Thread Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar
I expect that most of the people on this list have chosen Django for their project(s), which would probably make our view a little skewed ;) That said, the thread you reference is basically a framework religion war. You may have noticed: there are extremely negative comments about every framework

Django community, is it active?

2012-12-18 Thread sparky
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