From Symfony to Django in two days
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:date: 2013-09-24T14:05:22Z
:category: blog
:tags: development,symfony,django
:url: blog/2013/9/24/from-symfony-to-django-in-two-days.html
:save_as: blog/2013/9/24/from-symfony-to-django-in-two-days.html
:status: published
:author: Gergely Polonkai

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 now, 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.