1. The Django Framework By Low Kian Seong

4. Backed by some of the arguably the greatest Pythonistas

5. Great community.

6. Good resources. A book, planet and mailing lists which are actively maintained.

11. Purposely made underpowered. Why?

13. Views

14. urls

15. Templates

17. Definition for database schemas and fields.

19. Controlling what is being fed to the templates and others. The C in MVC.

21. Controlling what is served up based on the url that the user is accessing.

22. Lots of regex and pattern matching here.

25. Generic Views

26. Tags and Filters

27. Development server

28. Loose coupling

31. Powerful and Extensible engine.

33. Date based actions

36. A simple view: urlpatterns = patterns('django.views.generic.simple', (r'^foo/$', 'direct_to_template', {'template': 'foo_index.html'}), (r'^foo/(?P<id>+)/$', 'direct_to_template', {'template': 'foo_detail.html'}), )

38. Some default built in django tags and filters.

39. Custom tags and filters.

41. Underpowered?

43. Windows/Linux support

45. Data modelling and manipulations

46. Two case studies-processing scripts+django web front

47. Leveraging the dynamic Python programming language for various system tasks. What? No bash?!

49. Django-sqlalchemy

51. Django snippets examples

52. Free Django book!

53. Q&A Q&A Session