Entries published on November 9, 2007
Living without projects
The official Django tutorial walks you through the process of developing a Django application inside a Django project; in this view of the world, the “project” is seemingly the major focus, and the “application” just happens to be something you stuff inside it. For the purposes of learning and exploring Django — especially if you’re new to Python and unfamiliar with things like how to create your own modules and set up your Python path — this is a pretty good way to work, because it means that django-admin.py and manage.py can do most of the heavy lifting for you.
But …