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title: Django Resources From A Founder and CTO
description: Will Plaehn, founder and CTO of Last Mile Retail, a retail marketing platform, recently visited Byte Academy as a guest speaker for our Entrepreneur Series
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# [Django Resources From A Founder and CTO](https://www.byteacademy.co/blog/django-resources-from-a-founder-and-cto)

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Will Plaehn, founder and CTO of Last Mile Retail, a retail marketing platform, recently visited Byte Academy as a guest speaker for our [Entrepreneur Series](http://www.meetup.com/Byte-Academy-Finance-and-Technology-community/events/226781613/).  He also gave a workshop on Django, a Python framework while here.  Read some of his favorite resources that he shared and referenced in his talk (thanks Will!)...

![DjangoArchitecture-JeffCroft](https://www.byteacademy.co/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/DjangoArchitecture-JeffCroft.png?width=706&height=394&name=DjangoArchitecture-JeffCroft.png)

Django Girls Tutorial  
[http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/](http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/)

Test Driven Development – Harry Percival  
[http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754/ch01.html">http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754/ch01.html ](http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000754)

Two Scoops of Django – Daniel and Audrey Roy Greenfeld

[https://www.twoscoopspress.com/](https://www.twoscoopspress.com/)

 

Thumbor @ Yipit blog post – Zach Smith

[http://tech.yipit.com/2013/01/03/how-yipit-scales-thumbnailing-with-thumbor-and-cloudfront/](http://tech.yipit.com/2013/01/03/how-yipit-scales-thumbnailing-with-thumbor-and-cloudfront/)

 

Django NYC meetup group:   
[http://www.meetup.com/django-nyc/](http://www.meetup.com/django-nyc/)

 

 

 

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