Posted on July 9th, 2007 in django, python, Catalyst by siddharta || 2 Comments
Scoble calls Django the hot new development framework. Not sure about the new part. It’s been around for a few years. But definitely hot. When I first started working on Silver Catalyst, I wondered whether it was the right decision to build it in Python and Django. It doesn’t trouble me anymore.
Posted on May 31st, 2007 in django, python, Product design, Tool, Catalyst by siddharta || 26 Comments
One of the cool things about Silver Catalyst (which is a Django app) is that you can start using it right out of the box. I didn’t want the team working their way around Apache and MSSQL configurations, Python version incompatibilities, database access issues and deployment hassles. The final solution was a simple executable, which when run would start everything required to get going.
In this post, I’ll explain how that was achieved.
Posted on February 27th, 2007 in screencast, django, python by siddharta || 1 Comment
I had prepared a screencast for wikicamp on creating a wiki in fifteen minutes using Python and Django. I just finished uploading the screencast. You can view it here (6.7 MB)
You might want to download the movie to your local machine first. In that case, I’ve put the files in a zip archive here (4.9 MB)