Django Tutorials

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General Tutorials

• ​WordPress Clone in 27 Seconds
• ​build a portfolio app in 30 minutes with Django
• ​A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes
• ​Django for non-programmers

Tutorials on Specific Topics:

Setup/Configurations

• ​Setting up Django on Dreamhost
• ​Django on Windows HOWTO
• ​Installing Django on OSX

Understanding Django Internals

• ​How Django processes a request
• ​The difference between blank and null

Templates

• ​Django Templates: An Introduction
• ​Using Django’s TemplateTags
• ​Django Templates are not limited
• ​Django Templates: The Power of Inheritance
• ​Template context processors
• ​Write better template tags

Fun stuff with the Admin section

• ​Django Admin Hack - Fields varying with user permissions
• ​An AJAX Select Widget for Django
• ​Use the Django admin for my PHP app

Generic Views

• ​Taking advantage of generic views
• ​Extending Generic Views

Email

• ​Sending E-Mails using Templates
• ​Notification of new comments by email using signals

Searching

• ​Extending Django's database API to include full-text search

Signals

• ​Notification of new comments by email using signals

Misc:

• ​Django cheat sheet
• ​Use the Django admin for my PHP app