Great question, and welcome to the group. I found quite few helpful posts here. and as per stats there are around 1k+ new posts every month. Me too, looking forward to some good blogs. -http://lincolnloop.com/blog/categories/django/ (Technical articles) -http://jacobian.org/writing/ (General to Technical)
And for your " Does it have a real future and please be honest." some latest stats : http://jacobian.org/writing/django-community/django-community-2012/ On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:36:42 AM UTC+5, Glyn Jackson wrote: > > I'm hoping this is the right place to ask such questions, please forgive > me if not. > > I'm making a real time investment in learning another server side > language. I have 10 years ColdFusion, 5 years PHP, JAVA. Having never > touched Python let alone the framework Django, for the past 4 weeks I have > been testing Django out. Darn, Raspberry Pi started me with my blog ( > http://www.glynjackson.org/blog/) I have to say its nice, however my > concerns are now to do with the community and not so much with the > framework itself. > > No one likes to back a loser and every time I search for Django community > I'm faced with a host of negative posts. for example: > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2777883 > > Unlike other languages I'm active in and still use, I'm also finding it > hard to find any user groups locally in the UK (I'm based in Manchester, > UK). > > So from the community itself how alive is Django? Should I really invest > the time to learn? Does it have a real future and please be honest. > > other questions.... > > 1) is this worth going? --- http://2013.djangocon.eu > 2) who are the top blogs people within the Django community who should I > be following, blogs feed etc. > > Sorry for the stupid questions, but and just want a new skillset that I > can use for many years to come. Django is really cool > > > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/1EGGQtktJ1UJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.