If you’re a Django guy or are wanting to be, you have to visit This Week In Django (TWID) website.

TWID started out as being a weekly podcast by Michael Trier but evolved to be a complete website full of Django resources to either help you give the first steps or keep you informed.

Go on, download the podcasts and listen to them while driving to your job or jogging.

Will Larson wrote this great article on how to use Django to create those web pages you happily used to do when all you knew was HTML.

Until about an year ago, I was using PHP for these static web pages.
The idea was to have just one base index.php and include files by usage of GET to retrieve the PHP files. It was a basic but helpful automation.

The way Will teach you with Django and a basic Python script is much more useful as it abstracts a bunch of stuff.

Give it a try!

Erik Holscher has a blog filled with Django interesting stuff that can be really useful if you wanna step in the Django world or just keep up to date with Django’s nice add-ons.
He’s also making screencasts presenting some of these feature.

Here’s his latest screencast about Django’s command extensions:

Django Command Extensions from Eric Holscher on Vimeo.

Django 1.0 was finally released, it is a moment of joy for us Django users/developers.

Many many stuff changed since I started using it in last year’s November and I’ve been using it and watching it grow in quality and community with great pleasure.

Here’s a quote from the release notes that describes a little the work Django people have done:
“Since Django 0.96, we’ve made over 4,000 code commits, fixed more than 2,000 bugs, and edited, added, or removed around 350,000 lines of code. We’ve also added 40,000 lines of new documentation, and greatly improved what was already there.”

Check the release notes or get started with Django! It will change your way of seeing web development (and this also goes for all you Rails people out there).

Two days ago Django 1.0 Alpha 2 was released! It is one more step towards the big 1.0 release of this GREAT python web framework.

From Django’s weblog, this Alpha 2 release “is intended primarily for developers who are interested in checking out the new features in 1.0 and helping to identify and resolve bugs prior to the final release. The 1.0 alpha releases will not receive long-term support and will not be updated with security fixes, since their main purpose is to serve as a stepping-stone on the path to the final Django 1.0 release.”

If you wanna help Django for the big release, take a look at the release roadmap and see where you can be helpful.