Category: Django

Using Django to Serve Static Files in Development

by David Orkin on Oct.06, 2009, under Python, Django

So by default Django doesnt serve static files because, well, it doesn't serve them as well as a webserver like Apache would. There is a nice piece of documentation on that available here. more »
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Template Inheritance in Django (aka The Django equivalent of a Rails layout)

by David Orkin on Oct.06, 2009, under Python, Django, Ruby on Rails

So I'm coming over to the django community from Ruby On Rails, and so far, Im fairly happy with Django as a framework. The python framework I initially used was pylons (note - I am hardly a pylons jedi) but one thing in particular is bugging me. The lack… more »
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