Melbourne hacker releases open source Django apps | Linux Today

Melbourne hacker releases open source Django apps

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 18, 2011

“McDonald’s day job is as technical team lead at Citrus, but he
also manages the Mezzanine CMS and Cartridge e-commerce projects at
his own Jupo System portal – Jupo.org.

“Having worked with ASP and PHP, McDonald turned his attention
to Python and Ruby about five years ago when investigating Web
application technologies.

“‘When we looked at emerging technologies we saw the traditional
like .Net and Java as not much of a step into the future,’ McDonald
said.

“‘Around that time Python and Ruby were just starting to get
some traction and I fell in love with Django and Python, both the
language and the technology itself. It produces quality engineering
and rapid prototyping.'”


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