James Thigpen

I decided to pop open a copy of Live Writer and chronicle my first Django first impressions. It’s going to be a bit stream of consciousness. I’m working off this tutorial from Instant Django.

The model creation seems relatively straightforward so far. I haven’t done anything even remotely complicated yet.

I like how the URL routing is so explicit. It does require me to know regular expressions though, which are one of those things I can’t remember for more than 30 seconds at a time. You just map a regular expression of the request to the view that handles it. It’s kind of exactly what I ranted about wanting in a previous post.

Neato. I just got my first “hello world” kind of thing going, but it goes to a database through the ORM and has a model and everything. Took about 40 minutes from first download of instant-django.

So far, I’m pleased. The more I think about how the routing works, the more I like it.  I’m excited about continuin with this.  I’ll keep posting, and include some code snippets once I get something useful going.