Developing with Django

A "get started" guide to Django powered websites.

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1. Developing with Django
   Daniel Ryan
   http://dryan.com
   

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2. Some Background
   Lawrence Journal-World
   Ellington
   Pycon 2005
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3. Sites Powered by Django
   

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4. Acronyms Abound
   MTV - Model • Template • View
   DRY - Don’t Repeat Yourself
   ORM - Object-relational Mapping
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5. MTV vs. MVC
   Model = Model
   Template = View
   View = Controller
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6. Installing Django
   Check out http://dryan.com/articles/snow-leopard-64bit-
   mamp/#python
   Python
   Trunk versus Stable Release
   Third Party Libraries
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7. A Django Workflow
   Create a project
   Configure settings.py
   Configure urls.py
   Create the database tables
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8. A Django Workflow
   Create an app
   Define your models
   Create the database tables
   Define your urls
   Define your views
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9. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
   direct_to_template
   redirect_to
   archive_index
   archive_year
   archive_month
   archive_week
   archive_day
   archive_today
   object_detail (date based)
   object_list
   object_detail (list based)
   create_object
   update_object
   delete_object
   Django Generic
   Views
   

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10. Django Templates
    Just like PHP, except the exact opposite
    True separation of logic and presentation
    Global templates vs. app templates
    Blocks
    Tags
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11. Built-in Tags
    autoescape
    block
    comment
    cycle
    debug
    extends
    filter
    firstof
    for
    for ... empty
    if
    ifchanged
    ifequal
    ifnotequal
    include
    load
    now
    regroup
    spaceless
    ssi
    templatetag
    url
    widthratio
    with
    

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12. Built-in Filters
    add
    addslashes
    capfirst
    center
    cut
    date
    default
    default_if_none
    dictsort
    dictsortreversed
    escapejs
    filesizeformat
    first
    fix_ampersands
    floatformat
    force_escape
    get_digit
    iriencode
    join
    last
    length_is
    linebreaks
    linebreaksbr
    linenumbers
    ljust
    lower
    make_list
    phone2numeric
    pluralize
    pprint
    removetags
    rjust
    safe
    safeseq
    slice
    slugify
    stringformat
    striptags
    time
    timesince
    title
    truncatewords
    truncatewords_html
    unordered_list
    upper
    urlencode
    urlize
    urlizetrunc
    wordcount
    wordwrap
    

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13. Other Freebies
    Admin site
    Authentication
    Cache system
    Conditional content
    processing
    Comments
    Content types
    Cross Site Request Forgery
    protection
    Databrowse
    E-mail (sending)
    Flatpages
    Humanize
    Internationalization
    Jython support
    “Local flavor”
    Pagination
    Redirects
    Serialization
    Sessions
    Signals
    Sitemaps
    Sites
    Syndication feeds
    (RSS/Atom)
    Unicode in Django
    Web design helpers
    django.contrib
    

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14. Resources
    http://docs.djangoproject.com
    irc://irc.freenode.net/django
    http://thisweekindjango.com/
    http://www.djangosnippets.org/
    http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Tutorials
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