Django and the Django Software Foundation
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We talk to one of the creators of the Django project about the formation of the Django Software Foundation, and we show you how to get started with this user-friendly web framework.
In the summer of 2005, yet another web framework was released into the open source world [1]. Only three short years since Django's release, it has gained enough traction to inspire the formation of the Django Software Foundation [2]. With the formation of the DSF, Django joins an impressive list of other projects with their own foundations, including Apache, Perl, and Python.
What Is Django?
Django is a Python web development "framework," or set of libraries, that allows developers to work on the unique/interesting parts of an application without worrying much about the boring infrastructure under the hood. Django uses the MVC pattern like many other frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails and the various Perl and PHP frameworks.
One of Django's killer features is its incredibly slick admin interface that is automatically built for you. In this article, I will walk through the steps required to build a small Twitter-like application so you can see the admin in action.
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