What is Django? You’ve come to the right place.
Jan 14, 2015
What is Django?
You’ve come to the right place.
The Web Framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
History
The Lawrence Journal World The original Django site.
Ellington CMS The original Django system.
Philosophy
Pythonic
Beautiful is better than ugly.Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
DRY
Don’t Repeat Yourself
Other Good Stuff
• Loose coupling
• Less code
• Quick development
Consistency.
Foundations
The Python language. Batteries included.
Who uses Python?
Components
Object-Relational Mapper
Automatic Admin Interface
Template Language
Other Goodies
• Strong internationalization support.
• Caching support for high performance websites.
• Built-in support for RSS feeds.
• Elegant, cruft-free URLs
Django Community Many additional projects.
Django Community A rich user community.
Django Community Extensively deployed.
Thanks.
Questions?