Mike still likes Django more than Rails.

Someone on Craigslist is looking for a Django guru, Python wizard, and a database jockey… all in one person.

Quoth Ian at LAMP Training:

We deliver on-site courses throughout the US and worldwide on a range of web technologies, drawing from our personal experience of developing and deploying web-applications, creating web-frameworks, and contributing to open-source software.

Course categories include Web 2.0, Python, Django, and Linux/MySQL/PostgreSQL.

If you are running Django on a 32-bit system, you can use psyco to double your rendering speeds.

The first four chapters of the Django book are now online, with a total of almost 500 comments. Cool.

If I understand correctly, some of the people in the #django chan decided to build something to “make it easier to publish and share Django related contents and projects.” They are calling the project DjangoForge, and it looks like Sean Schertell registered the related domains.

A Launchpad project has been created for it, and they appear to have some frontend object specification ideas written down. Looks like a good start.

I really think this project makes a lot of sense. I’m sure there are already many people writing the same applications to do the same tasks. It would be nice to be able to go to a site and check ratings for existing Django weblog apps, for example.

Hopefully something will come of this.

According to the Catalyst vs Rails vs Django Cook-Off, Django is the winner.

Satchmo is an online storefront built on Python and Django:

Satchmo’s mission is to use Django to create an open source framework for creating unique and robust online stores. To provide maximum flexibility, Satchmo is licensed under the BSD license.

According to the site they are still in the “early alpha stage” right now, but they do have a list of features and a demo.

Yet another awesome Django tutorial over at The B-List:

One of these days I’m going to run out of frequently-asked Django questions to answer. But today isn’t that day, so let’s look at one of the most common questions people ask: how do you set up a model with one or more fields that never show up in add/edit forms, and get automatically populated with some specific value?

Good stuff.

As announced on the Django blog the other day, the Django book will be available online before the actual book is released. So far only the first two chapters are available, but more should be released throughout November.