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> (auth with email instead of username ), Django 1.5 fixes this with custom user models: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#customizi...

I've implemented this for my playground/weekend project site: http://myowndamnphotos.com . It works quite well, with a few gotchas (mainly in the JS, handling the watch() event). I…

I strongly suggest you consider the legal implications. Suppose you're about to hire some guy. You ask for his Facebook page, and it turns out from the page he's gay. You then turn…

I want to see the candidate's twitter feeds, Facebook pages, LinkedIn profiles, activity on mailing lists and github, etc. and the recruiter has to be happy I'm not going to screw …

Hackerjobs is a wasteland - for example, just 3 or 4 Python jobs. Don't waste your time there. My suspicion - based on own experience and some hints in the OP's post - is subtle ag…

Maybe it's great if you live in a tech hub. Take the programmer who happens to live in Nowheresville, Nebraska. He lives there because his wife has a job there, or other family com…

> I go to cafes here and it's not unusual to see people coding, discussing startups, practicing their pitch. Almost everybody I know is building something. Not working for a big co…

Well, we all need to eat, and if you want to do web dev, and 90% of web dev jobs in your area are PHP... So yes, PHP may put food on the table, but if it's the only tool you get to…

I wonder if the reason for that is the move to the web - the drag and drop & generate code paradigm doesn't work so well with the classic HTML/CSS/JS combo(although they tried with…

All other things being equal, a "homegrown" project by coders who know what they're doing is going to be better than a framework project by coders who don't. Yes, I understand your…

I said it makes no difference.

What if you want to get rid of the username field altogether? For example, my typical use case: unique email address for logins, no usernames: I suppose you could subclass User wit…

I'm not arguing against using a framework, if it fits your project requirements, and we can argue the day long about micro-vs-full-stack. There are good arguments for both, they su…

Sure, if you did it completely on your own. More likely you use Flask or Pyramid which provide the plugins/entry points/templates to make wiring these components together quite eas…

It's a long-standing tradition for DjangoCon to have a "Why Django Sucks" presentation. And a healthy one IMHO.

Really, it's more of a management problem than a coding problem. Short-term thinking, bad hiring/outsourcing practices, and poor client expectations management, among others. A fra…

Most codebases I've seen that are badly maintained or managed over the years are horrible messes - whether Django, Rails or anything else. The last codebase I worked on - written i…

> I think people who criticize Django have yet to make up their minds about what a framework is all about, and what, if anything, it's for. They just hold on to their utopian idea …

> Django templates are sloooooow. Jinja 2 is an order of magnitude faster Template execution speed is unlikely to be the bottleneck for the vast majority of sites. I prefer Jinja2 …

In Python, you wouldn't reroll your own ORM, routing and templating - you'd use SQLAlchemy, Werkzeug, Jinja2/Mako/whatever.

Agree on Django auth; it's horribly designed - need an extra field - use a separate UserProfile - really? Need to login with unique email address - which EVERY SINGLE client asks f…

Sounds like a good idea, however to sell at BigCo: - you really need contacts. As the OP points out, this involves working with them some time (in the inside, as contractor, sellin…