A recent study measured the productivity of using Python+Django vs. C#+ASP.NET, in terms of user-stories per week. The results are that 1 Django developer is equivalent to 2 ASP.NET developers, productivity-wise:
The Django team that participated in the benchmark, BTW, had no prior experience with Django, which probably implies that the difference can be even higher.
The next meeting of the local Django community will take place next monday at Google offices in Tel-Aviv, & you're all invited. The meeting will have lectures on the advanced Python equivalents to Maven & Ant, which are quite amazing & powerful. There will also be a Django tutorial & coding sessions.
I've written a tutorial on "Building an Enterprise Information System using Django" (see file attachments below), intended for both executives & developers. Based on it I gave a talk at Verint Systems, summarizing the main ideas (slides also attached).
BTW, there are hands-on training sessions planned (1 scheduled for next week), to which you're all invited. I'll be posting the details here.
Tikal's Python group is delighted to host this month meetup of PyWeb-IL - one of the most active developers communities in Israel, with over 150 registered members, meeting regularly every month. The meetup will take place in Tikal's offices on Aug-30.
The agenda contains lectures on client-side techniques & best-practices (CSS, JavaScript & HTML5), Django best practices (class-based views) & Django-based open-source projects (Ekkli). After the meetup, a Django tutorial session will be offered to anyone interested.
DjangoCon.eu 2010 is almost over (the conference is split to 3 days of lectures & 2 days of sprints) & the videos/slides are already available, & highly recommended!
BTW, the conference this year was co-organized by Idan Gazit (who gave a talk in the TCE on Django). Feedback on it is really good, so lot's of kudos to Idan!!
I gave last week a talk on Non-relational databases in general & Cassandra in particular. Focussed on the advantages & cost/implications, to assist organizations in making a smart choice.
