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I'm a newbie on the Django scene coming from an ASP.NET C# background. I'm looking for some good resources to help me learn the ins and outs of Django/Python. Any recommendations?
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Gunicorn is the recommended HTTP server for use with Django on Heroku (as referenced in the Procfile above). It is a pure-Python HTTP server for WSGI applications that can run multiple Python concurrent processes within a single dyno (see Deploying Python applications with Gunicorn for more information).
Django has been around for over a decade now. During this period lot of top websites have used it in production, some notable examples are: Pinterest Engineering. Mozilla.
For hosting web applications built on Django, you will need to use a platform that lets you deploy the app. One of these platforms is Heroku. Heroku is a cloud platform on which users can build and deploy applications. Heroku relies on Git, a revision control system that lets you manage the program code of your app.
The community is a tremendous resource: IRC, Blog Aggregator, django-users
http://www.djangoproject.com/community/
ProDjango by Marty Alchin is a good book for learning the django internals http://prodjango.com/
"Learning Python" by O'Reilly http://books.google.com/books?id=nEJ-jcYF2fMC&dq=learning+python&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=EBJhSoHvDs_tlAfDncmjDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4
"Dive into Python" http://diveintopython3.ep.io/ (opensource title) from Apress.
Videos of talks from DjangoCon or Pycon can be streamed as well. And the startthedark.com django from the ground up series.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D415FAF806EC47A1
http://pycon.blip.tv/
http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/?author=8362
I also understand that "this week in django" is being rebranded as djangodose, yet still many of the podcasts for twid are relevant.
http://twitter.com/djangodose
http://thisweekindjango.com/
The rubyonrails podcast is another great resource. RoR podcast covers equally relevant topics of interest to both Django and Rails programmers.
http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/
Good blog post on deployment http://lethain.com/entry/2009/feb/13/the-django-and-ubuntu-intrepid-almanac/
Make sure to learn pip, virtualenv, and fabric while you are at it. Indispensable.
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