Django is a web framework in Python using DRY (Do not repeat yourself) principles. It usually uses data held in a database such as SQLite or MySQL, which is maintained separately from the look and feel of the web site.
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Background. We provide training courses in IT subjects - we specialize in "Open Source" programming languages such as Python, Lua, Perl and PHP, but also offer some associated topics such as SQL, and some Linux including administration training for server configuration and deployment. All of our co ....
What is Django and what do I need to be able to use it?
Django is a framework - a tool that lets you create, customise, run and maintain web sites in which the data is stored in database tables. It uses the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) philospohy of design - quite the opposite of early web sites, wh ....
I don't like asking for things. And when I ask for something - especially something that someone else is going to have to work at or pay for, I've a natutal tendency to ask for a minimum. Many of us are like that - and so it's been that, in our striving for an appropriate train service, we've com ....
What's important about the weather to you? For us, it's whether it's going to be wet or dry, sunny or cloudy, hot or cold, windy or calm over the next two or three days. That information's available on the BBC web site, and a host of others - but I want to have it to hand, as a graphic picking o ....
Do you have an image that displays perfectly in your browser when you download it from your website ...
... but you get occasional reports from users that it comes out as a string of hyroglyphics for them ...
The problem may be that the server isn't sending the right content-type header, and tha ....
During many of our courses, I write code snippet examples and add them to our website so that the delegates can refer back to them later - and they also form an ongoing resource for others who happen to be looking for examples. But on our Linux Web Server (LAMP) courses, there's far less original ....
The subjects we teach are used worldwide - there's just as much requirement to learn about Python in Salerno as there is in Swindon, about Tcl in Milwaukee as there is in Manchester, and about Lua in Buffalo as there is in Birmingham. But subjects like Lua are "niche", and the training volume simply ....
Time flies! It doesn't feel like it - but it's been three years since we replaced our fleet of delegate computers (see [here]). The Compaq machines have really done very well, but they're beginning to look a little long in the tooth. Those that are still running Windows have been running Vista, a ....
We started the year with C and C++ courses on Monday, 3rd January ... and we were full. So we've added the following courses to our schedule:
Programming in C - Sunday 23rd and Monday 24th January 2011. Prior programming experience assumed.
C and C++ Programming - Sunday 23rd to Wednesday 26th Janu ....