Pro Django: Web Development Done Right (Pro)
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 Djangos 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. Youll 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 Djangos 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.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 11, 2008 Type: User Review |
Documentation is What Makes Django
I've dabbled with what I consider to be all the major web frameworks: TurboGears, Pylons, Rails, and Django. Religion and other biases aside, what really made me finally settle on Django was the documentation (though...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 24, 2008 Type: User Review |
Wonderful overview of Django
Even though I'm not a real world user of Django (I'm a Grails guy), I thought I'd give this book a try as Django is in the same category of web development frameworks as Grails. After reading this book, I had a solid foundation knowledge about how...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 15, 2008 Type: User Review |
Good companion to online version.
Although you can read this book for free online, I like having it around for easy reference. The first eight or so chapters are good for learning Django; with the subsequent chapters and appendixes good for reference.
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
A solid introduction, lacking in examples
Django is a framework I've long (in web years) held in some esteem, despite never having used it before the past few weeks. The framework's creators' many well reasoned contributions on all manner of debates about the web suggested a thoughtful...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
Good introduction to Django
This book basically covers all the parts of Django, and will give you a good overview . It misses some details though, such as middleware, which is just skimmed through. There's also not much on customizing Django, i.e not using it's built in...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 04, 2008 Type: User Review |
Comprehensive, concise and simple
One thing I appreciate are short, clear examples that illustrate a point but also cause you to reach a wider understanding on your own. If you can get your point across in 10 lines of simple code, do it, rather than using 50 lines of fancy code....
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 31, 2008 Type: User Review |
Sufficient, but written on drool-proof paper
This book is a decent survey of Django's capabilities as well as an introduction to MVC-based web dev. Unfortunately it suffers from a very simple problem: too much explanation getting in the way of information. For example: no one cares how...
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3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
Another Definitive Flop from Apress
I buy books like these because I don't like reading documentation on a computer screen where I can't dog-ear or highlight anything, but after several bad experiences I'll probably avoid these black and yellow striped titles the same way I avoid...
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3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 13, 2008 Type: User Review |
Django rocks
This book is a great resource. I highly recommend buying it and coverting all of your webistes to django. Only if you like doing about a 1/3 of the work as compared to other languages/frameworks out there.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 09, 2008 Type: User Review |
Essential reading for the Django developer
I've been messing with Django for some time, and I've long awaited the release of this book. This is one of the few times I've painstakingly gone through all the code samples and replicated as many of the examples as I could. The book's chapters...
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5.00/5 |
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