musings of wrath

I’ve decided to become more active in Django than I have been in the past. I’ve been brushing up a lot on my Python (and Ruby, but that’s another tale, for another time), and I think I can contribute in a useful manner, other than just commenting on features to add and the like.

I’ve been going through the beta book a bit, and am going to start going through some tickets in the hopes of being able to contribute as much as possible. The more I contribute, the more I learn, the better I feel about Django as a whole. It has a lot of potential - Rails is by far more “feature-complete” - and I want to see it succeed and surpass its competition.

Adrian, my coding abilities are yours for the exploitation! Er.. using!

After writing a response to a comment left by Adrian from the Django Project, I got to thinking, and decided to try the mod_python method of hosting a Django application.

It appears that the problem isn’t necessarily with Django, but python is missing something. I’m still new to python, so it could have been my gaff.

I’ll have to research this some more.

Update: I updated via SVN today, and that opened up a whole new can of worms. The model structure has changed, breaking it in another way. After further research, Hugo let me know that Django will NOT work on mod_python 2.x on Apache 1, it needs mod_python 3+ and Apache 2. I’m still not seeing this in the documentation, but I could just be missing it.

Today I spent several (read: about 4) hours working with and toying with a neat little web application framework called Django. It’s very much like working with Ruby on Rails, but a little bit more intuitive.

The downside is the documentation is only slightly poorer than Ruby on Rails’ documentation, which is to say, not very good. The tutorial helped quite a bit with the basics, but even that does not work “out of the box“.

I’ll keep working on it, as I’m interested to see if I can whip up an AJAX implementation for it, making data entry web applications easy to put together.

That’s right, in a matter of a few hours, I can build you a character database, fanboy!