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Tuesday, 24th August 2010

What is the history of Django? I’ve been playing with Quora—it’s a really neat twist on the question-and-answer format, which makes great use of friends, followers and topics and has some very neat live update stuff going on (using Comet on top of Tornado). I just posted quite a long answer to a question about the history of Django.

# 5:31 pm / comet, django, history, qna, quora, tornado, recovered

What is the history of the Django web framework? Why has it been described as “developed in a newsroom”?

I was there!

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What is the highest traffic website built on top of Django?

My best guess would be Disqus. Instagram are pretty enormous these days as well.

[... 31 words]

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