‘Django’ posts

Alfresco Django Integration Screencast

Posted by John Eckman on 11 Jun 2009

In this screencast (yet another in the continuing series by Jeff Potts), Jeff demonstrates an integration (developed by Optaros) of Alfresco and Django. Consistent with our service oriented content management (SOCM) philosophy the integration enables separation of repository services from presentation services, enabling you to build content-centric applications in the python-based Django framework while still | View post »

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

It’s quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | View post »

Django Solr Project

Posted by John Eckman on 05 Feb 2009

Optaros colleague Sean Creeley (and others) have just published the Django-Solr-Search project to Google Code, under the New BSD License. Check out the tutorial and documentation at Sean’s blog.

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives

Posted by Optaros on 21 Dec 2008

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the | View post »

Assembling Django Applications into Web 2.0 Solutions

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 24 Jul 2008

What is Django?Django is a python web framework that in their own words “encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.” It was originally developed developed by The World Company to manage their news properties in Lawrence, Kansas. It was open sourced in 2005 and has been gaining traction ever since. Often compared to Ruby on | View post »