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Beyond the Polls Tutorial: 6 Surprising Secrets from the Django Trenches
Most developers begin their Django journey with the "official polls tutorial"—a clean, laboratory-grade guide to building a basic application. However, Django wasn’t born in a sterile environment; it was forged in the high-pressure newsroom of the Lawrence Journal-World. Its creators were "perfectionists with deadlines" who had to refactor common tools into a framework on the fly to meet literal hourly deadlines.