In this episode of ByteSized RSE I talk about Django, a Python based web development framework that was developed in the mid 2000s.
My guests are Tom Couch from the University College London and Max Albert from Southampton University.

Links:

  • https://www.djangoproject.com the entry point for Django with tutorials and references
  • https://www.dj4e.com Django for you tutorial site
  • https://www.feldroy.com/books/two-scoops-of-django-3-x the Book Two Scoops of Django by David Greenfeld
    • https://pydanny.blogspot.com and here is his blog
  • https://2024.djangocon.eu If you want to go to a Django conference - here is one...
  • https://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Crispy forms in Django
  • https://cookiecutter-django.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Cookie Cutter Django
  • https://medium.com/@devsumitg/how-to-connect-reactjs-django-framework-c5ba268cb8be an article how to connect ReactJS with Django

Trivia

  • https://www.holovaty.com Adrian Holovaty gave Django the name - apart from an engineer he is also a talented musician
  • https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-of-the-Django-web-framework-Why-has-it-been-described-as-developed-in-a-newsroom/answer/Simon-Willison an interview with Simon Willison on how Django got created
  • https://simonwillison.net Simon is co-creator of Django
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20140716123229/https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/committers/ a brief history of the first Django committers
  • https://archive.org/details/django-reinhardt/107-django_reinhardt-djangos_blues.mp3 The MP3 file of the music played in the episode. 1947, Django Blues by Django Reinhardt

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