As a response to the Top 30 Ruby on Rails Tutorials, I’ve compiled a list of the top 30 Django tutorials and articles. These links are in addition to the great documentation on the Django project site.

For those who don’t know, Django is a Python web development framework that makes development super fast.

The list in no particular order…

1. Are you generic?
2. Sending E-Mails via Templates
3. Django admin for your PHP app?
4. Hacking FreeComment
5. the difference between ‘blank’ and ‘null’
6. Using Django’s TemplateTags
7. A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes
8. Forms With Multiple Inline Objects
9. Extending Generic Views
10. Template context processors
11. Custom SQL In Django
12. How Django processes a request
13. Write better template tags
14. Extending the User model
15. Django’s Undocumented contenttype app
16. Django, gzip and WSGI
17. Django for non-programmers
18. Django Templates: The Power of Inheritance
19. Django Templates: An Introduction
20. Setting up Django on Dreamhost
21. Django on Windows HOWTO
22. Django Admin Hack – Fields varying with user permissions
23. Some django gotchas
24. Django Templates are not limited
25. Develop for the Web with Django and Python
26. An AJAX ComboBox Widget for Django
27. Using Django’s Free Comments
28. MochiKit and Django
29. RSS made stupidly simple
30. Installing Django on OSX

Note: keep an eye out at Django’s community page for new tutorials and articles.

Related Links

• Official Documentation
• Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines (VIDEO)
• Django-friendly web hosts
• Sites using Django

If you have an additional tutorial, put it in the comments.

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I’ve been working on a project using Django for the last couple days and am falling in love with it. There are so many nice features that make the life of the developer much more enjoyable. The nicest thing is the automatic administration panel. For many projects it’s enough to define a model and activate the admin panel. Another nice feature that I just discovered is the automatic api documentation for you project. If you click on the ‘documentation’ link at the top right of the admin panel, the documentation is presented in a very well organized and attractive manner. You’ll need docutils installed for this. Whenever an error occurs in you code and you set ‘DEBUG’ to ‘True’ in settings.py, you get a really clean error report. Generic Views saves you a huge amount of coding.

I’m still trying to get my head around everything, but so far everything has been going quite well. I would like to have a way to automatically choose the current user in the Admin panel and some of the included apps (comments, for example) need to be documented. Most aspects of the framework have quite nice documentation, though.

Ok, back to the project.

Jeff Croft has a nice tutorial on how to set up Django, a python web framework, on Dreamhost.

If you want to use the sweetness that is Python to do web development, are a Dreamhost customer and would like to be able to avoid this in the future, I propose that you vote to have it included as a standard feature. Go to Home > Suggestions in the Admin Panel, search for Django and then cast your vote. This is how Ruby on Rails got included.

While you’re at it, cast a vote for Postgresql, Django’s preferred database and a vote for mod_python.

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