Re: Generell Questions on Django

2007-05-24 Thread brian corrigan
We have used Django along side Java applications by using Jython and HTTP requests from the Java to Django and vice versa. So if your colleagues need more "serious" application features there are ways to plug them into Django (although I'm sure some people might not agree with the method) :) On

Re: Generell Questions on Django

2007-05-23 Thread Julio Nobrega
On 5/23/07, OliverMarchand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Now my colleagues first reaction was very defensive: > a) that's for websites, not serious applications My website is a serious application :) And so are, for example, the ljworld.com website where Django was born, or Tabblo,

Re: Generell Questions on Django

2007-05-23 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Hi Oliver -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUD :) Seriously, though... None of your colleagues' statements display any actual investigation of their claims; they're all almost completely wrong. On 5/23/07, OliverMarchand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) that's for websites, not serious applicatio

Re: Generell Questions on Django

2007-05-23 Thread Jarek Zgoda
OliverMarchand napisaƂ(a): > a) that's for websites, not serious applications All web application programming is about websites. > b) it will be slow, ORMs are always slow Indeed. Plain nothing beats plain SQL in terms of data access, but it may be tedious work to actually write these statemen

Re: Generell Questions on Django

2007-05-23 Thread Atilla
On 23/05/07, OliverMarchand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to Django (4+years Python experience) and would like to > evaluate for my financial company whether Django may be a good > solution to our problem of designing our applications all a-z from > scratch. Now my colleagues fir

Generell Questions on Django

2007-05-23 Thread OliverMarchand
Hi, I am new to Django (4+years Python experience) and would like to evaluate for my financial company whether Django may be a good solution to our problem of designing our applications all a-z from scratch. Now my colleagues first reaction was very defensive: a) that's for websites, not serious