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Jacob put the finishing touches on the restructured documentation for Django this past week. The new documentation available here is much improved. Several areas have been expanded and it is much easier for a beginner and a seasoned Django user to find the information that they are looking.

Along with the documentation, the new beta for Django has also been released. As the blog post says this signals feature freeze with the last major piece being checked into trunk this week (the comments refactor). The comments refactor was part of this years Summer of Code. To see what has changed in the the comments app, check out the fresh documentation.

Other interesting links for relating to Django this week include;

• Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way
• An Introduction to Using CouchDB with Django
• Adding search to a Django site in a snap

Thierry Schellenbach has also posted an interesting blog post making a comparison between the PHP framework Symfony and Django. I have to agree with him that the forms API in Django is one of its shining stars. Although I have to disagree with his remark about the JS and CSS management, managing JS and CSS in particular in code puts limitation on who can edit the JS and CSS references, something that the Django template system is developed to avoid, lowing the barrier of entry which contributions can be made to projects. Remember not all web designers can program (an vice-versa). Read Thierry's Comparison here.