WDS08: Workshop Day One - Django-a-gogo!

Well, my day one workshop is over and my head is well and truly full after attending Jeff Croft's Building a CMS with Django.

If you've been following my Twitter page, you'll know that I'm currently in Sydney for the Web Directions conference. My hotel room is the size of a shoe box, but at least it's quite comfortable (I brought my own pillow this time). The super-expensive hotel broadband is currently running at dial-up speeds. The shower pressure is nice and strong, however, I've gotta say, whoever chose the placement for the bathroom mirror is either oblivious to the obvious or seriously disturbed.

I went in to Jeff's workshop with no clue about Django or Python but left with not only a greater understanding of the two, but also a lot of new ideas for CMS features and making my code more modular. I can't say that I'll be using Django from here on out (I'm still a big fan of CodeIgnighter) but there was definitely a lot of info that will come in handy in future.

Day two is all about Javascript, which is much closer to my comfort zone, so I'm looking forward to tomorrow's workshop.