Django - Python Web Apps

Short intro on Django around a demo app, hymn organizer.

1. Jake Trent October 2009 Python Web Apps copyright 2009 Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
2. "The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines."
3. History 6 years old 2003 - Lawrence Journal-World 2005 - Open-sourced 3 Sept 2008 - Version 1.0 29 July 2009 - Version 1.1
4. Demo Hymn Organizer - Create meetings, assign organists, parishioners vote on hymns
5. manage.py startproject startapp syncdb runserver dumpdata loaddata
6. settings.py database paths INSTALLED_APPS
7. MTV instead of - model view controller django - model template view/url
8. urls.py regex name reverse()
9. views.py locals() render_to_response()
10. models.py *Field max_length unique choices auto_now auto_now_add editable null blank
11. Templates date truncatewords pluralize default {% block %} {% include %} {% for %} {% if %}
12. admin.py ModelAdmin list_display prepopulated_fields
13. forms.py Form ModelForm model exclude/include
14. INSTALLED_APPS django.contrib.comments {% load %}
15. Pagination django.core.paginator object_list templatetags
16. context_processors RequestContext TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS
17. INSTALLED_APPS django-voting django-registration
18. Feeds django.contrib.syndication
19. More Topics Django! Signals Middleware templatetags ORM
20. Community Active and helpful djangoproject.com - home/docs djangofriendly.com - hosts djangoprojects.com - projects that use it djangopeople.com - people that use it djangosnippets.org - code
21. More Django Demo code - bitbucket.org/jtsnake/hymnorganizer/ Slides & Tutorials - aprilandjake.com/tag/django/