Getting started (for new developers)

• Learn Python
• Learn Django You can skip the parts about Djangos admin site, since it's not used in Devilry.
• Additional Django knowledge that you need to understand Devilry:
  • Testing. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/testing/
  • Forms. Read the Form overview and Forms for models.
• Learn about RESTful web (TODO: links and how to integrate with Django).
  • Read http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife
• Learn web standards (HTML, CSS, JavaScript):
  • w3schools has many good tutorials and references.
  • W3C is the community that develops standards for the web.
  • The Mozilla JavaScript page has good language reference.
  • A list apart has many good guides.
• Play with Devilry:
  • Fork the Devilry source code
  • Read the devilry API docs
  • Devilry is a set of Django applications, so all you really need is the Django docs.
  • Setting up a Devilry development environment
  • How the devilry source is organized

Important extra info

In your shell configfile (.bashrc, .zshrc etc) you will need:

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=devilry.projects.dev.settings

Devilry requires docutils. Docutils is often available in package managers (apt, port, ....). Or you can install it with:

sudo easy_install docutils