At the same time, there will be some ramp-up time for you and your team on Django and on at least your first project I’d expect that you could get things done more quickly with CodeIgniter for the simple fact that you know it better.

As a freelancer Codeigniter framework (PHP) is what i`m currently using on daily tasks but i decided to change due to the fact that you still have to write a lot of code to accomplish a task.

i have an intranet application at hand now, the application will manage church and support church branches and managers for each branch, support complex search etc, also automatic sending of newsletter, sms, produce report on pdf, and excel format.

Should i use django admin? i`m wondering how we can customize the django admin to fit our design.

Thank you for your support

However, there are cases where Python may not be the best language choice to get the job done or Django may not be the best fit and in those cases you have to consider other options. We have an upcoming code analysis project that will rely heavily on MSSql Server (and other databases) and I have some reservations. Although pyodbc is pretty solid for database access from Linux to MSSql, django-pyodbc has raised some concerns due to lack of support. We are considering using Python with SQLAlchemy/Elixir (with and without Django) as well as Java. This application will have a database with billions of records and will do code analysis on tens of millions of files. However, my concerns aren’t with Django’s ability to handle that data but rather with support for the database packages we’ll be using.

I initially looked at Rails for this but I find Ruby very obtuse and Rails to be very confusing (for me). Do you feel that Django can handle “enterprisey” applications. Most of everything youbsee out there is a news site or social networking site. You don’t see a lot of django apps that do a lot of processing and what not.