---
layout:    post
title:     "From Symfony to Django in two days"
date:      2013-09-24 14:05:22+00:00
tags:      [development, symfony, django]
permalink: /blog/2013/9/24/from-symfony-to-django-in-two-days
published: true
author:
    name: Gergely Polonkai
    email: gergely@polonkai.eu
---

I was a Python hater for a long time, although I can’t really tell why. It
didn’t fit in my mind, maybe. I was programming in BASIC, Pascal (none of
these would come to my mind, though), C, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, and
different shell “languages” like awk, sed or bash.

After I could not fit my next Symfony app on my cloud server (it is pretty
low on storage), I have decided to move slowly to Django. My first task was
simple: transition my web page (this one) from PHP + Symfony 2 to Python +
Django. The results: the “static” pages are already working, the blog
listing is almost ready (some styling issues are still around), only
tagging remains. And this is after about 6 hours of work. Oh, and the admin
site is included with Django, so I don’t have to port that. I have also
decided to finally integrate a comment feature in the Django version.
