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Are you a Django developer looking for hosting for your Django site? Do you want to get started quickly with Django in a Django-friendly hosting environment? Then Django hosting at djangohosting.ch is just for you.

"django-form-scaffold is a package of helper functions for generating Django template code with markup from Django form instances."

Browsing around the wonderful programming.reddit.com last night, I came across a post titled Why Django kicks Ruby on Rails' collective ass. This is an interesting article, mainly because in a sense it is right, but it goes about explaining Django's benefits all wrong. First of all, Ruby on Rails ain't plural, and therefore it cannot have a 'collective ass'. Ok, I kid. But seriously, I started out my web programming 'career' with Rails, and I have since moved over to using Django. I'll try to list some constructive reasons why the 'pragmatic' (buzzword!) developer would chose Django over Rails.

Userena is a Django application that supplies your Django project with full account management

Django-SpamBayes includes a few utility apps for Django that offer an easy to use interface to the SpamBayes statistical anti-spam filter allowing filtering and moderation (with training) of comments, contact forms and other publicly submitted data.

Django authentification application with openid using django auth contrib

Helper application and documentation on easily porting GAE app to any django environment. gae2django implements GAE api as django app.

With each new release, Django offers new features and techniques to simplify web development. Django Advent brings you articles about these new features and the techniques they make possible, often written by the feature's author.

A punBB-like django forum.

If you're interested in running your Django projects behind Tornado, you'll want to employ a daemonized approach. The solution: Deploy Tornado as python scripts controlled by supervisord, a pythonic daemon manager.

nasuni used Django

basic django deployment with virtualenv fabric pip and rsync

Nice info on the usage of _meta on django models.

Django session/cookie based user notifications

Having completed many Django projects over the past two years, I've started to take some seemingly trivial things for granted. Cross referencing a project for

Pluggable Django app for logging messages from the Python logging module's HTTPHandler

There's plenty of material (documentation, blogs, books) out there that'll help you write a site using Django… but then what? You've still got to test, deploy, monitor, and tune the site; failure at deployment time means all your beautiful code is for naught. This tutorial examines how best to cope when the Real World intrudes on your carefully designed website.

Lately I've been working on CMS like application for a news portal and one of the major features include integrating WYSIWYG editor to enable journalists post news online with ease. With almost zero expertise in Javascript, I thought this will be a difficult activity but it turned out to be very easy and took less than an hour to integrate once we shortlisted on which editor we will be using.

With app-engine-patch a major part of Django works on App Engine without any modifications. The most important change is that you have to use Google's Model class because the development model is too different from Django (at least with Django's current API).