Django

[Skaperen]

how many Django hanging out around these forums?  is there any reason i should not use Django?  i need to set up a website that allows users to sign up and get an account, and login and buy a service by the day, week, month, or year.  i need to be able to gather a list of paid customers for that day, every day, so my software knows who can use the service.

[nilamo]

You could use Django. That sounds fairly simple, so any framework could work.

Django's sort of like an 800lb gorilla. It can certainly do the job, and a lot of the time it's great at what it does. But if you want to do something against the convention, you should get ready for a tough fight. That said, if you do follow the conventions, the tools they have to auto-generate code for you are pretty good.

Django is basically our Ruby on Rails.

[Skaperen]

i'll play around with the mod-wsgi i have working now. it so far seems to be web stuff the way i have done it before and am familiar with except for apache+python approach i wanted. if i run into major trouble i'll ask if that is solvable by tools you guys already use (know how to do it with that tool).

the first website i made was in 1995 and my first corporate site was in 1997 (a multi-page tax-form shopping site done entirely in C under SunOS).

[nilamo]

done entirely in C under SunOS

Do you still use Sun pcs?  They had some in the computer lab that I played with now and then when at college, and they were surprisingly cool.

[Skaperen]

done entirely in C under SunOS

Do you still use Sun pcs?  They had some in the computer lab that I played with now and then when at college, and they were surprisingly cool.

i have a couple of old 32-bit ones (SparcStation 5/70 and SparcStation 5/85).  one has an old Solaris on it.  the other has OpenBSD on it. they use old cumbersome CRT displays. which i have.  i want to get rid of the CRTs but my LCD doesn't seem to like the video coming from the SparcStations.  also, the internal HDs use/need a special SCSI+power connector that apparently is no longer available.  so i am stuck with the 2 GB drives they came with.

way back when i only had the 5/70 and LFS (Linux From Scratch) just came out and was still for x86, i did LFS on there.  i scripted it, too.   it took about 55 hours (2.3 days) to build on the 70 MHz machine.

then i made a bootable Linux CD that would boot up on either Sparc or x86.  those were fun days.  now i am automating cloud stuff with Python.