A Fireside Chat
summary
History of Django from a newsroom proves specific things: it starts in 2003 as a CMS to rebuild lawrence.com, serving a college town with over a thousand MP3s and rich relational features; it runs on a PostgreSQL backend initially, ships an admin and templating borrowed from PHP and Smarty, moves from code generation to a metaclass ORM replacing code generation, and is open sourced July 5 2005 then rapidly adopted by data journalism projects.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Django fireside chat intro
- 1:54From PHP to newspaper intern
- 6:29Django’s early inspirations
- 10:20Building the Lawrence Journal CMS
- 15:38Internal CMS to open source
- 18:43Q&A on Django’s impact
- 22:35Community response to Django
- 24:24Reflections after ten years
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