"Systems have a tendency to self synchronize as operations line up and try to destroy themselves. Fascinating to watch."

This is an even-handed glance into Drupal vs Django, but could probably be broadened to CMSes vs framework.

"Sure, developers would still have objected in the same way, but those objections would be overturned by management or marketing. Release dates slip while developers scurry to integrate not-quite-baked software… and hey presto, it’s Adobe® Django© CSX™."

There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.

-- Alan Perlis

NASA using Django! Also using Fabric, Selenium, CruiseControl (continuous integration), and Solr. Very cool.

Dependency locator for any language.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss' notes from OSCON 2009.

Client needed a CMS. A *front-end designer* weighed a PHP/MySQL option, an off the shelf option (Wordpress vs EE), and Django. Everyone was happy all around. Point, Django.

I always have problems with the datetime module.

"I didn't mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart. It's a lot of work to learn a new programming language. And people don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know."

Using pip and virtualenv to build reproducible and isolated Python environments.

Nifty way to add extra context and additional logic to partials.

Modular search for Django

Looks like Zed Shaw is a fan of Django now.

Great explanations of Apache's prefork and working modules and how they apply to mod_php and mod_python.

Whoosh: a fast pure-Python search engine

Thorough explanation of using nginx to run Django, with a neat piece of software called supervisord to manage your server processes.

Another Python web framework.

Simplifies encryption which is always nice!

Quick rundown of a DIY python web framework.

Brings up several points on the advantages of Python and its frameworks over Ruby on Rails.

Rundown and link to a Google TechTalk about WSGI, Paste, and Pylons by the creator of Pylons

Provides easy way to include Django in 'non-web' scripts.

Interesting developments in people's Django code

Uses a foreign key with unique=True