I'd love to see the Django equivalent to Railscasts.
Kenneth Love's working on this at http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/.
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#12+1 for the django.me tip. I can see myself using it all the time from now on :-) Out of curiosity, how and where did you find out about it? http://django.me redirects to the main page of django docs and google search didn't give any useful info.
I think it's powered by http://slug.in/ which was a recent djangodash project.
I don't think it is, based on the GitHub repository powering http://slug.in (https://github.com/yetizzz/zzz).
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#13Awesome, thanks for this. I've been learning Django in my spare time and using the Django Book resource, and while I can work through it I don't think it's taught in a way that helped me remember how to do any of it without the book. Is that common? I am assuming that the only way you learn how to set up an environment or a Django project is just through doing it multiple times, not memorizing it out of a book. For example, the next time I start a project, I know I'll have to refer back to how to start the whole process.
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#14Awesome, thanks for this. I've been learning Django in my spare time and using the Django Book resource, and while I can work through it I don't think it's taught in a way that helped me remember how to do any of it without the book. Is that common? I am assuming that the only way you learn how to set up an environment or a Django project is just through doing it multiple times, not memorizing it out of a book. For e…
I was in the same shoes as you. After going through the tutorial, I didn't feel confident that I could set up another project and configure the required settings without referring to the guide.
It will get better once you embark on your second or third project. You will be able to refer back to your earlier projects (instead of the guide) and see what steps you have missed out.
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#15Anyone use django CMS? https://www.django-cms.org/
How is it in comparison to WP?
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#16Anyone use django CMS? https://www.django-cms.org/ How is it in comparison to WP?
Check mezzanine you will be amazed. :)
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#18Some advice that saved me hours: use Vagrant to manage a linux-based VM. Share the Django code directory with your Host OS. You're going to eventually deploy to Linux anyway. (I had a LOT of issues trying to get Postgresql to install on OS X via Homebrew, etc, and it still wasn't a proper environment). Once I went with Vagrant and an Ubuntu VM, things smoothed out.
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#19Hey Flexterra, I'm glad my post on Rails inspired you to write this for Django!
Re: Want to learn Django? Start here.
#20Some advice that saved me hours: use Vagrant to manage a linux-based VM. Share the Django code directory with your Host OS. You're going to eventually deploy to Linux anyway. (I had a LOT of issues trying to get Postgresql to install on OS X via Homebrew, etc, and it still wasn't a proper environment). Once I went with Vagrant and an Ubuntu VM, things smoothed out.
I second using Vagrant boxes, but there is an easy solution for running Postgres on OS X now: