tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57072017380606943022009-07-24T05:54:53.290-07:00A chronicling of the AJC Internet Technology Group's experience w/Big Nerd Ranch's Django Bootcamp.Chris Heiselnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-10451188631338119242007-07-02T07:12:00.000-07:002007-07-02T07:39:53.599-07:00

Although my current role is MySQL DBA, I have been a professional web developer since 1995. I was really amazed by what I was able to do with Django by the end of this class. I have gone on to learn about Python in general.I was able to take what I learned about Python and modify this open source script for uploading to Flickr so that I can use it as a plug-in to export from Bibble to Flickr in

Richard Bronoskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07558528821697820938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-17818496922350489792007-06-18T05:09:00.000-07:002007-06-18T05:20:11.974-07:00

I really enjoyed the week of training and the instructor, Juan Pablo. I was also happy to learn about things that django can do and look forward to working with it even more than I have. Hopefully, 1.0 will come along sooner rather than later.

Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13762955604866560336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-37491460454391456652007-06-15T10:05:00.000-07:002007-06-15T10:09:05.767-07:00

Done with class and very happy with how I spent the last week. I think the exercises were relevant and the explanations were clear and helpful. Would have like to have been onsite to be able to more easily follow up on lessons that we did each day. Other than that, I feel like we were given a toolset to base some great stuff off of.

Cliffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-43713957052134275262007-06-14T09:53:00.000-07:002007-06-14T10:09:15.252-07:00

So far so good - I'm very happy with the Django training we are taking this week. If this class is an example of the quality of service that Big Nerd Ranch provides then I'm cool with getting more training from them.I'm a Ruby/Rails guy so it was great to see Django being used for something other then just the Admin and it gives a clear cut way for me to determine which tool I'd rather use for

Rahsun McAfeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02131620925484487103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-49234312387857458992007-06-14T04:32:00.000-07:002007-06-14T04:41:01.841-07:00

I wanted to get a few days under my belt, so I could get a true feel for the class before contributing. After three days of the course, I have to say that I'm impressed.What I came into the class looking for was more of an idea of the power of django and more of what you could do with it. Juan Pablo has done, what I feel, is a great job in opening those doors. I'm really excited about the

Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13762955604866560336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-47234057599435718232007-06-13T12:48:00.001-07:002007-06-13T12:52:10.772-07:00

We finished up newforms today and also covered generic views.I love, love, love generic views. The less code we have to write, (and thus the less code we have to test), the better and more effecient we'll be.Juan made a really good observation/training point I hadn't thought of: the CRUD generic views all use oldforms.I hadn't really dug into the CRUD generic views until the class and I had

Chris Heiselnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-37239943811831562212007-06-13T11:46:00.000-07:002007-06-13T14:33:07.564-07:00

From the perspective of a non-programmer, this class has been an invaluable experience. It is immediately obvious that my inexperience with Python is a hinderance in completing the exercises. However, the concise instruction and thorough documentation provided by our instructor has helped me to understand what is going on behind the scenes. At this point I feel relatively comfortable about the

Todd Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06457743660131405104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-21205497766398625212007-06-13T09:04:00.000-07:002007-06-13T09:09:25.746-07:00

Coming into training, I had worked in Django for about 8 months or so, and therefore had a relatively good idea of how things worked. However, I never really learned Django the right way, having mostly worked off of just reverse engineering other people's code, figuring out what does what, and then building something new based off of those methods. Going through each step and actually taking

Nick Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995322167069334115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-54140082902327058192007-06-13T06:42:00.000-07:002007-06-13T06:49:59.024-07:00

This class actually makes that decision hard. Django is obviously well thought out; I know python a lot better than Ruby; Never really looked at django untill I needed to for my job. Now that I have and with the very good instructions of Juan Django is becoming very attractive. (What made Rails very attractive is the amount of books on it one can find in any given bookstore.) I have picked a

Hajohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03172160879601980828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-30836772172547169202007-06-12T14:04:00.000-07:002007-06-12T14:12:26.163-07:00

It's the end of the second day and we covered a lot of ground -- admin, views, templates and newforms.The biggest knowledge gain for me was newforms -- they're very nice. I'm no slouch when it comes to HTML, but this is one task I'm glad Django automates for me. I've spent enough time debugging/writing code to handle form input/form generation -- this is really one area where I think Django

Chris Heiselnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-442155430844340132007-06-12T05:19:00.000-07:002007-06-12T05:25:09.607-07:00

Finding Juan Pablo's explanations clear and concise. Very stressless and informative first day. Being somewhat new to django and having hacked away at some apps, it was good to have the documentation and Juan Pablo's intro into how and why things work the way they do. Looking forward to delving into some deeper django concepts and usages. Think it was a great start.

Cliffnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707201738060694302.post-25928731196125472402007-06-11T11:22:00.001-07:002007-06-11T11:26:09.909-07:00

It's still the middle of our first day of training, but it's going well.Our instructor, Juan Pablo-Claude, did a good rundown of what Django is -- probably could use a bit of background on its history, but maybe later as we get into specific design decisions the core team made.Our first day, so far, has been setup and install of Python, the DB drivers, Django, etc. Personally, I've realized how

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