PHP Addiction - or, teach someone about python

A talk given at PyCon ZA about some of the rougher aspects of the user experience of someone coming from a PHP background, learning about Python/Django. Video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nM1SpBp4w

Transcript

1. PHP addiction or, teach someone about python
2. Bradley Whittington @darb / bradley@motribe.com http://github.com/bradwhittington (PHP) Dev / Ops manager at Motribe, a Mxit company (Python) Technical co-founder of Lessfuss
3. “This would be easier in python” - that guy
4. But... PHP is fine, for us.
5. '0' == 0 Yes. That. Just. Happened.
6. I grew up on PHP. It has paid lots of rent.
7. HelloWorld.php: apt-get install apache2 php-5 echo "<?php phpinfo() ?>" > /var/www/index.php Open browser to http://localhost
8. Let there be blog wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip unzip ...
9. Let's get all fancy Drupal, Symfony2, Code Ignitor, etc. etc. PHP packaging is matur{e,ing} too.
10. Put it on the Internet
11. I said plethora.
12. This would be easier in python?
13. “But, PHP is terrible.” - that guy
14. “PHP: a fractal of bad design” http://goo.gl/vMtqz
16. “Just Install Python.” - that guy
18. Wut?
19. I kid. Default on OSX, Linux LOL, Windows.
20. “Just learn python” - that guy
22. I kid http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ http://codecademy.com/tracks/python http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs101/Course Rev/apr2012
23. I wanted to make a internet website.
24. "HOWTO Use Python in the web" http://docs.python.org/howto/webservers.html
26. Wut.
27. “Just learn Django” - zZzzZZzz
29. I did the tutorial, tell me more
30. Djangobook! Django Version 1.0. After the magic was removed. In 2009. Erk.
31. Let's poke around
32. (test)vagrant@lucid32:fubar$ wc -l settings.py 151 (test)vagrant@lucid32:django$ find .|grep py$|wc -l 997
34. Just learn Flask|Bottle|Pyramid
35. Back to Django
36. Django HelloWorld (Ghetto style): $ vim urls.py from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url from django.http import HttpResponse def hello(request): return HttpResponse('Ohai') urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^$', hello), ) :wq $ ./manage.py runserver ... $ xdg-open http://localhost:8000
37. Let's show the world.
39. Huh.
40. daemonize your mod_wsgi process in apache Or gunicorn it. Or uWSGI. You cray if you mod_python, bro. ♬♫♬♫ Don't forget your static files. ♫♪♬♫
41. Sure, it's no “Just rake your passenger and phusion your apache gem”
42. But, install your requirements file under a virtualenv. Buddy. Cos, you know, http://www.12factor.net/
43. Huh.
44. Fine, just use: Heroku | Gondor | Openshift | zzZzzZz While you cut your teeth. You'll need git | hg | zzzz too Cos, http://www.12factor.net/
45. Nobody said it was gonna be easy.
46. Thanks? @darb http://github.com/bradwhittington