Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-31 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vr, 21-07-2006 te 05:58 +0300, schreef Elver Loho: > SciTE for my code, though, which is pretty much just glorified Notepad > with syntax hightlighting :P That's what it looks like at first sight; when you look deeper, it's more like an alternative to vim or emacs, except it doesn't run in a

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-21 Thread Sean Schertell
Thanks everyone for your input. So far I'm really pleased with what I see. I'm gonna take Django for a test drive on a website project I'm about to start now and see how it goes -- but I do get the feeling I'm falling in love :-) The one thing I think I may miss about Rails most is Ruby. Py

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-21 Thread ToddG
Elver Loho wrote: > In CherryPy, every "directory" of the website is mapped to a class > with its exposed methods being the "files" in that directory. It's a > godsend as you can write any kind of functionality (shopping cart, > blog, whatnot) into a class or two and plop it anywhere else. Very >

Re: [OT] Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-21 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:56:14 -0500 Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 21, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Josh Trutwin wrote: > > What's the digg link out of curiousity? > > http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Dog_eats_Nintendo..._DS_Lite%3B_Oh% > 2C_and_NIntendo_s_Customer_Service_rocks. >

Re: [OT] Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-21 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Jul 21, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Josh Trutwin wrote: > What's the digg link out of curiousity? http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Dog_eats_Nintendo..._DS_Lite%3B_Oh% 2C_and_NIntendo_s_Customer_Service_rocks. Wow, almost 1200 diggs now... schweet. Jacob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

Re: [OT] Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-21 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:14:39 -0500 Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * My personal server just got Dugg and handled it without > hiccupping. The box cost me around $3k, has 8GB of RAM and dual > Opteron processors; load peaked around 0.7. What's the digg link out of curiousity?

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 21-Jul-06, at 7:44 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: >>> How about memory footprint? Can I run 100+ >>> Django sites on a shared server and expect smooth sailing? > > Well, it certainly depends on the server, of course -- you obviously > get what you pay for. > > The memory consumption for a singl

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-21 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Jul 20, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Sean Schertell wrote: >> How about memory footprint? Can I run 100+ >> Django sites on a shared server and expect smooth sailing? Well, it certainly depends on the server, of course -- you obviously get what you pay for. The memory consumption for a single mod_pyth

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-20 Thread Elver Loho
On 7/21/06, Sean Schertell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for presenting a different angle. I imagine you're one of > these long-bearded guys who uses NetBSD and Fluxbox as his main > desktop OS and edits code in VI through a tsch shell ;-) Ubuntu Dapper and Gnome. (I need Unix on commodi

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-20 Thread Sean Schertell
Thanks so much for your reply Adrian! Can you also please comment a bit on how well Django works in a shared environment? > How about memory footprint? Can I run 100+ > Django sites on a shared server and expect smooth sailing? Thanks! Sean --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-20 Thread Sean Schertell
Thanks for presenting a different angle. I imagine you're one of these long-bearded guys who uses NetBSD and Fluxbox as his main desktop OS and edits code in VI through a tsch shell ;-) For me? OS X and TextMate plus some well thought-out framework that allows me to get from A to Z in __as

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-20 Thread Deryck Hodge
On 7/20/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/20/06, Sean Schertell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (1) Portable apps across projects architecture. From what I've read, > > it sounds like a perfect fit for what I want to do. Is it really that > > great? > > Yes. It is that great.

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 21-Jul-06, at 6:56 AM, Ian Holsman wrote: >> It's exactly what you're looking for, in that respect. And thanks for >> indirectly encouraging us to advertise this feature more... > > It's the main reason I chose to develop my first app in Django, > instead of Rails, and from then I've been h

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-20 Thread Elver Loho
Allow me to offer a dissenting view. I recently faced the task of finding a Python-based framework to use at work and tried several, including Django. I finally settled on using CherryPy with Kid. (Which is what TurboGears is doing, but with a lot of extra cruft thrown in. And btw, the TurboGears

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-20 Thread Paulo
+1 on the portability of apps. We're doing something very similar for our client projects. Since moving to Django we have: - increased our cash flow by being able to hammer out more "small-ish" projects in a shorter amount time - decreased our dev time -- we're finding ourselves waiting on cl

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-20 Thread Ian Holsman
On 21/07/2006, at 11:22 AM, Adrian Holovaty wrote:(1) Portable apps across projects architecture. From what I've read, it sounds like a perfect fit for what I want to do. Is it really that great? Yes. It is that great. :) It's really interesting that you see that as one of Django's main strengths,

Re: Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-20 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 7/20/06, Sean Schertell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1) Portable apps across projects architecture. From what I've read, > it sounds like a perfect fit for what I want to do. Is it really that > great? Yes. It is that great. :) It's really interesting that you see that as one of Django's main

Is Django the framework I've been looking for?

2006-07-20 Thread Sean Schertell
Greetings Djangoers, I'm thinking of defecting from the Ruby on Rails camp because I think Django may be more in line with what I want to do. If you have a couple minutes, could you please tell me if I'm on the right track? What I want to do === Basically, I want to