Technology Overview

Django

This is the CMS we'll be using to manage content like books, checkouts, etc.

South

Used to make database migrations less painful.

PostgreSQL?

We can probably get away with using a sqlite database for now. PostgreSQL will probably give us better db performance though.

Virtualenv

Used to create a python environment just for this project. Avoids the hassle of dealing with library conflicts and such.

PIP

Package manager for python. We'll use this to manage project dependencies.