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Django hits 1.0
Django, the open source web framework written in Python, has just hit the 1.0 milestone! My sincere congratulations to the entire Django team and community for all of their hard work.Django (pronounced Jang-oh), like Ruby on Rails, is part of the new-hotness class of web frameworks that has generated interest amongst lots of web developers. Loosely following the model-view-controller paradigm, Django's goal is to create complex database-driven website quickly and efficiently. Pownce is powered by Django, as are parts of The Washington Post. Web developer Jeff Croft's was built using Django, and was actually what inspired me to give the framework a try.
I spent some time this summer playing with Django and was very impressed with its speed and efficiency and the community behind the project. The project released The Django Book online late last year and there are tons of great resources online for anyone wanting to give it a try.
You can download Django here, you just need Python 2.3 or higher.
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Todd said 6:09PM on 9-04-2008
Question: Is their an easy way to tell if a site was built with Django?
Example: When I suspect a site is Drupal I do a "View source" and Ctrl+F for the word "Drupal".
Is there something like that for Django sites? Is this a Django site?
http://zeepmobile.com
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Christina Warren said 6:20PM on 9-04-2008
It totally depends on the site (just like a good Drupal site builder can scrape out any of the Drupal calls). Some sites, especially blogs, might be serving something from a directory named 'django' so doing a view source, find "django" might turn something up.
However, because it is a framework and not a CMS (though you can certainly build a CMS with it), it isn't as cut and dry as most PHP-based blogs or websites.
kingkool68 said 8:08PM on 9-04-2008
Try http://www.quarkbase.com/ it gives you all kinds of stats about a website you could ever want to know. It was even featured here on Download Squad not too long ago http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/28/want-to-know-everything-about-a-website-try-quarkbase/