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What can Django learn from Rails?

Dec. 5, 2005 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]

One of the questions asked at Snakes & Rubies was about what Django could learn from Rails (and vice versa). Once I finish wrestling Final Cut Pro to the ground you’ll be able to see how Adrian and David answered the question, but in the meantime it got me thinking about some cool features of Rails that are worth ripping off… er… being inspired by: find_or_create convenience methods. Pretty simple, so expect to see a similar method in Django pretty soon.

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Pool: another theme in Italian!

Nov. 19, 2005 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

Italian translation of the theme for Wordpress “Pool” released under the GPL license

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Bla: a theme in Italian!

Nov. 9, 2005 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

Italian translation of the theme for Wordpress “Bla” released under the GPL license

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Let’s start!

Oct. 17, 2005 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

New GNU/Linux distribution and new blog!

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First update

Sept. 29, 2005 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

A post on the first update of my blog

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Hello World!

Sept. 23, 2005 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

My first post welcoming the world to my personal blog

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Private Dancer?

Sept. 9, 2005 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]

As I was going over some notes on our internal wiki, I ran across a list of rejected names for the framework that become Django: brazos superglue bodhisattva webbing boidae bohdi skoro consolidata piston physique silhouette valance anson The Python Web Framework (PWF) Tornado Publishing System Web Type Framework Pypeline super magic machine magic machine private dancer “the CMS” The Give-a-Damn machine boltdozer banister garbonzo Simon fizgig palmy cogent pith pithy pyth pythy festo…

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Django and Rails

Aug. 16, 2005 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]

Sam Newman just posted a comparison of Django and Rails which is extremely balanced and fair, and a very good read. I’ve obviously got a few bits of feedback, so here goes: Background As a framework Rails has been around for little over a year, whereas as a framework in its own right django has only been public for around two months. Actually, Django’s been in use internally for over two years, although we only got the buy-in from management to release it as open-source two months a…

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