Thanks for your reply, Rob. Personally, the reason we're looking to push Django is that our business needs very much match a statement Simon made in the talk I mentioned above: 'Web development on journalism deadlines' (that might not be entirely accurate).
I was also considering putting together a report, but we all know the problems with code metrics - do we measure LoC, speed of development, or the very nebulous 'simplicity' concept which will be quite difficult to communicate to management. I don't mean to pry, but at your workplace have you had any difficulty hiring into Python/Django roles at your company (compared to PHP)? Do you get less applicants? A better quality of applicant? Cheers, --Jon On 7/19/07, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 19, 1:19 am, "Jon Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If anyone has any good resources which show off the power of Django > > (and by association, the benefits of PHP), then please share them with > > us. > > Where I work we migrated away from PHP to Django with great success > but it depends on your environment. > > For us the Django admin was a huge factor since we have teams entering > content and the default Django admin was way better than anything we > had going so far. > > There are some performance articles and blog posts, for example: > http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Framework+Performance > > We benefitted from the Django workflow with its built-in web server. > > There's also the fact that Django is improving everyday which > translates into free new features or things that were hard to do are > easy now. For example, databrowse or djangosnippets. > > And we love Python and also love our jobs more because of the > switch. :) > > Those aren't really resources for you but depending on your in-house > requirements it's not hard to find resources online to help guide the > decision. When I had to convince my superiors of the choice, I wrote > a PDF document looking at the best choices in each language (Ruby, > PHP, Python) and Django won out for our particular needs. > > -Rob > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
