The Onion Uses Django and Why it Matters to Us

Re:The Onion Uses Django and Why it Matters to Us by Kaizyn on Thursday March 25, 2010 @12:08PM (#1218691)

What's funny about this is that Onion is an online publisher just like the newspaper guys who wrote Django. This would have been more of a story if Django was incapable of fulfilling their needs.

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Re:The Onion Uses Django and Why it Matters to Us by orblivion on Thursday March 25, 2010 @04:51PM (#1219467)

Well any number of things are supposed to do something but never seem to take off. I think it's newsworthy that Django got this level of validation.

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Re:The Onion Uses Django and Why it Matters to Us by josephd on Thursday March 25, 2010 @01:40PM (#1218946)

Are you contending that Django cannot do much beyond CMS? I think the contrary here.

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Re:The Onion Uses Django and Why it Matters to Us by icey on Thursday March 25, 2010 @01:51PM (#1218981)

I don't think that's his point at all. He's saying that they are playing directly into Django's strengths and therefore Django should work very well for them.

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Re:The Onion Uses Django and Why it Matters to Us by josephd on Thursday March 25, 2010 @03:00PM (#1219178)

Thanks for clearing that out. Most people who discuss Django and other frameworks seem to hammer out the point about its CMS heritage a lot: as a way of contrasting it from Rails' web app heritage for instance, with some strange insinuations inferred. However, a quick glance at djangosites.org suggests that Django has been used for a wide array of projects from ecommerce to photo sharing and dating sites etc.,(not forgetting a newly discovered redditplus.com). And these are just a small sample reflecting the rapid evolution of the tool beyond its CMS heritage.

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