Intro to Django talk given at django-nyc on 10/8/2008

1. What is Django?
You’ve come to the right place.

2. The Web Framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

3. History

4. The Lawrence Journal World The original Django site.

5. Ellington CMS The original Django system.

6. www.djangoproject.com Open sourced.

7. Philosophy

8. 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.

9. DRY
Don’t Repeat Yourself

10. Other Good Stuff
• Loose coupling
• Less code
• Quick development

11. Consistency.

12. Foundations

13. The Python language. Batteries included.

14. Who uses Python?

16. Components

17. Object-Relational Mapper

18. Automatic Admin Interface

19. Template Language

20. Other Goodies
• Strong internationalization support.
• Caching support for high performance websites.
• Built-in support for RSS feeds.
• Elegant, cruft-free URLs

21. Django Community Many additional projects.

22. Django Community A rich user community.

23. Django Community Extensively deployed.

24. Thanks.
Questions?