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I love Django, perhaps mostly because I love Python but Django's ORM is lovable in its own right. Using it, fronted by Nginx, I've built sites ranging from the simple (like mine here) to the highly complex such as the (team built) liquid site.
Django is excellent for developing sites that present data where the presentation is largely static. The page templating and modelling capabillities make it very fast and productive when doing back end (server side) work....

I'm still bugged by the complexity of using git subtrees to effectively handle development on main and sub projects. In my case I have several 'main' projects that are Django sites which share a functioning but actively developed app. I can work with...

I have a Django app which is proving very useful so I need to split it out into its own repository so that I can share it between multiple projects. As the client (CCCS), generously and sensibly keep their non sensitive project code as open source, I...

Undoing git commits is almost always a bad idea. The only time you should contemplate really undoing a commit is if the commit contains information that should never ever be seen in the repository. For example if you accidentally commit a file containing...