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  • Paperback: 447 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS (10 Dec 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1590597257
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590597255
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 69,921 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Django, the Python-based equivalent to the Ruby on Rails web development framework, is presently one of the hottest topics in web development today. In Pro Django: Web Development Done Right, Adrian Holovaty, one of Django's creators, and Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss show you how they use this framework to create award-winning web sites. Over the course of three parts, they guide you through the creation of a web application reminiscent of chicagocrime.org. The first part of the book introduces Django fundamentals like installation and configuration. You'll learn about creating the components that power a Django-driven web site. The second part delves into the more sophisticated features of Django, like outputting non-HTML content (such as RSS feeds and PDFs), plus caching and user management. The third part serves as a detailed reference to Django's many configuration options and commands. The book even includes seven appendixes for looking up configurations options and commands. In all, this book provides the ultimate tutorial and reference to the popular Django framework.

About the Author

Adrian Holovaty

Adrian Holovaty, a web developer/journalist, is one of the creators and core developers of Django. He works at washingtonpost.com, where he builds database web applications and does "journalism as computer programming." Previously, he was lead developer for World Online in Lawrence, Kansas, where Django was created.

When not working on Django improvements, Adrian hacks on side projects for the public good, such as chicagocrime.org, which won the 2005 Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism.Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Jacob Kaplan-Moss is one of the lead developers of Django. At his day job, he's the lead developer for the Lawrence Journal-World, a locally owned newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, where Django was developed. At the Journal-World, Jacob hacks on a number of sites including lawrence.com, LJWorld.com, and KUsports.com, and he is continually embarrassed by the multitude of media awards those sites win. In his spare time--what little of it there is--he fancies himself a chef.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, but beware of outdated sections, 4 Feb 2008
By S. Riggs "sriggs2669" (East Anglia, England) - See all my reviews
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This book is a fine and comprehensive romp through the essential workings and features of the Django python web development framework.

The book is divided into three parts. Part 1, 'Getting started', takes you from the concept of MVC through installation to the mechanics of getting a basic database-backed site up and running. Part 2, 'Subframeworks', goes on to discuss more advanced topics like the awesome generic views, caching, middleware, internationalisation and linking up with legacy databases. Part 3 consists of 8 reference appendices.

I love the tone of the writing in this book. It's concise, detailed where necessary, and occasionally irreverent (particularly when discussing Java and PHP!). Visually it looks great, following the current design of other Apress books.

On the negative side, Django is a fast moving project, and in a state of flux at the time of publishing (Dec '07). Chapter 7, Form Processing, seems to suffer most as the section on automatic form classes uses deprecated functions (according to the website), and their replacement, ModelForms, doesn't even get a mention. Also, there is only talk of the now-implemented 'auto-escaping' of browser input, so keep an eye on the Django project docs. Finally, there is the odd place where it's not quite clear into which file a particular code extract should go, and here and there I'd like to see more example usage.

Aah, the joys of book publishing. Still, I can't wait for a second edition when development has calmed down a bit!

Fortunately, given the unique way in which this book was written (do a web search for 'djangobook' and you'll see what I mean), you can give very precise feedback on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, or get technical feedback provided by other readers. You might even get a credit in the next edition!

Overall, this book is essential for anyone getting into Django web development. Four stars + 1 for the way in which you can contribute back to the book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive Django Guide done right!, 26 Mar 2008
By Allan Henderson "Alfonso" (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Forget Rails...been anticipating this book for some 6 months now and it's most definitely not a disappointment. Logically laid out and written in a style that shares enthusiasm for what is a fine web framework. If you're starting out in Django or need a desktop reference pick this up and get cracking. You'll undoubtedly be surprised how easy it is to build websites with Django, I'm not a programer, a web designer by trade and it impressed me with how much can be accomplished with only a basic knowledge of the framework. Highly recommended, what are you waiting for??
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