Re: Seeking reviewers for a "Guide to Idiomatic Django Deployment"

2013-11-06 Thread George London
@Vijay: I've actually got the guide up on Github much like that (you can find it via my Github, if you're motivated). You can check out the draft here: https://github.com/rogueleaderr/definitive_guide_to_django_deployment. I was a bit nervous about throwing it directly in front of this

Re: Seeking reviewers for a "Guide to Idiomatic Django Deployment"

2013-11-06 Thread Thomas Murphy
To all that are having trouble with live server deployment, have you tried Python Anywhere as a start? It's the method introduced in the Tango with Django tut, and it's the easiest "deploy with Django" live environment I've seen. -Excellent error logging -bash and sql shells -great support On

Re: Seeking reviewers for a "Guide to Idiomatic Django Deployment"

2013-11-06 Thread Derek
I agree there is a huge amount to learn in development... but deployment to a Real Live Server is not trivial; I have read two different (and each fairly detailed) guides so far, and still cannot get things working... for me, a really good guide would also include "trouble-shooting" - along

Re: Seeking reviewers for a "Guide to Idiomatic Django Deployment"

2013-11-06 Thread pnichols104
This sounds great! I'm still learning myself (coming up on 2 years experience) so I'm a little hesitant to volunteer to offer opinions on content, but I'm an excellent proofreader and would love to help out. I talk English much good and spel grate. Best, Paul On Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Re: Seeking reviewers for a "Guide to Idiomatic Django Deployment"

2013-11-06 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:34 PM, George London wrote: > > I think it would be really helpful for new-comers to have a clear, > opinionated guide to "commonly accepted (i.e. idiomatic)" deployment best > practices. Or at least I know it would have really helped me.

Re: Seeking reviewers for a "Guide to Idiomatic Django Deployment"

2013-11-06 Thread James Turley
Hi George, As a fellow relative n00b to Django (and 'serious' web development), I think this is a very good idea. I'm working through Harry Percival's excellent book, and only got hopelessly lost during the deployment

Re: Seeking reviewers for a "Guide to Idiomatic Django Deployment"

2013-11-05 Thread Vijay Khemlani
Wouldn't it be better to publish the book the same way as the Django Book ( http://www.djangobook.com/, https://github.com/jacobian/djangobook.com) instead of looking for private reviewers? On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:34 PM, George London wrote: > Hi All! > > As a fairly

Seeking reviewers for a "Guide to Idiomatic Django Deployment"

2013-11-05 Thread George London
Hi All! As a fairly recently self-taught Djangonaut, I was a bit dissatisfied with the existing resources for learning to deploy Django in a production setting. There are lots of blog posts about how to configure specific services but really not much that recommends which services to use or