So, my first post is about downloading and installing Django. Makes sense.
My development environment, by the way, is Ubuntu running in VMWare player on Windows Vista. I decided to go with Unix for my Django work as it seems that that is what most of the documentation is targeted at. I had tried Virtual PC 2007, but be warned, Ubuntu on Virtual PC 2007 does not work out of the box.
I followed the steps on the “How to install Django” page. Ubuntu already shipped with the latest version of Python so there was no need to install that. I did not install Django on Apache as this a development environment and I will simply be using the inbuilt python webserver and I chose to go for SQLite as the database which also comes as part of Django – mainly so I could get going asap. Getting this far took me about an hour. Most of which was time spent getting to grips with Ubuntu.
