Django first meeting ;)

Posted in python by pedro | Sunday, February 11th, 2007 at 3:43 pm

Ok I finished bootstrap meeting. It’s time to look at django framework. Some years ago I try python, and I think it’s worth knowing. Let’s see django.

Django requires python 2.3+ so I check my machine.

pedro@pedrowaty: ~ -V
Python 2.4.4

Bingo. Let’s follow installation instruction, get django tarball.

pedro@pedrowaty: ~ wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/0.95.1/tarball/
tar xzvf Django-0.95.1.tar.gz
cd Django-0.95.1
sudo python setup.py install

Also I read that this don’t work with python 2.5, luckily I’ve got 2.4.4 ;)

Next I followed this instruction

I follow this tutorial 1 and what can I say? It’s easy as RoR. So the trip just begin, I couldn’t do my test app with this framework because of my home-life. But I’m sure the next meeting is coming as quick as possible.

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My name is Sebastian Pietrowski. I've finished Warsaw University as Master degree. I started my journey with Java 1.1 with Thread and JDBC programing in 1998 as I worked for merlin.pl. In 1999 I've passed Java Programer Certificate for Java 1.2, and was solution architect of merlin.pl infrastructure when we was moving from pl/sql to J2EE. It was great performance optimization with 10 times more req/sec than in requirements and 85 times faster as original solution.

Currently I work as Expert Software Development Java at F.Hoffmann-La Roche. The company was founded in 1896 and today, Roche employs over 80.000 people. After work I'm involved in activities related to Scala/Lift, Ruby/Rails/Merb, Python/Django. This is because I try to be pragmatic also I'm focused on application performance and tuning with success in my daily work.

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