Django has gained considerable ground over the past year to become one of the predominant Python web development frameworks. Despite all the noise, and even a couple of published books, Django hasn’t actually hit a 1.0 release milestone yet. That’s about to change.
Over on the Django blog yesterday, James Bennett announced the availability of the 1.0 Alpha. This isn’t ready for production use just yet, but Bennett also claims the project is on track with it’s release plan and 1.0 Beta will launch in just a few short weeks on August 5th. So, if you have want to learn more about what’s coming up in the first official ‘release’ (as opposed to preview) of Django, head on over and take a look.
Django is a full stack web development framework for Python. As is common with other Python web frameworks, Django is a combination of a number of best of breed libraries covering database access, administration interfaces, view templating, security, AJAX integration and a whole lot more. It’s been used to successfully power some massive sites, including The Washington Post (where the project originated) and Twitter usurper Pownce.
Slight correction – Django was originally developed for the “World Company”:”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_%28web_framework%29″ and it’s local newspaper, The Lawrence Journal world.
Comment by mongo — July 24, 2008 @ 2:54 pm |
Thanks for pointing that out.
Comment by pwrighta — July 25, 2008 @ 7:55 am |
Nice!
Comment by Trevor — July 28, 2008 @ 2:02 pm |