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I managed to get in an hour or two of casual work this evening. I’ve pretty much just been refitting the Django tutorial for news rather than the polls example. Not too many problems, just the occasional glitch where I forgot to restart the webserver and some confusion surrounding the naming convention in the way Django would provide access to the table data that was my fault for skipping some sections of the tutorial.
It’s very early days, of course, but Django seems to be revealing itself as a generally amiable companion in the same way as Python itself drew me in. As with Python, it’s not so much a brute force attack of features and promises of power, but just that almost everywhere you look there are signs of caring minds at work. Whether its the pervasive comments, the automation of project setup or just the simple little touches like the “today” and “now” buttons being provided in the admin interface for date and time input, you get the feeling that someone is looking out for you.
The imperfections and frustration are to come, I’m sure, but for today Django is — as far as a web framework can be — cosy.
