| Description: | Book Description This latest edition of The Definitive Guide to Django is updated for Django 1.1, and, with the forwardcompatibility guarantee that Django now provides, should serve as the ultimate tutorial and reference for this popular framework for years to come. Django, the Pythonbased equivalent to Rubys Rails web development framework, is one of the hottest topics in web development today. Lead developer Jacob KaplanMoss and Django creator Adrian Holovaty show you how they use this framework to create awardwinning web sites by guiding you through the creation of a web application reminiscent of www.chicagocrime.org. Django: Web Development Done Right is broken into three parts, with the first introducing Django fundamentals such as installation and configuration, and creating the components that together power a Djangodriven web site. The second part delves into the more sophisticated features of Django, including outputting nonHTML content such as RSS feeds and PDFs, caching, and user management. The appendixes serve as a detailed reference to Djangos many configuration options and commands. What youll learn The first half of this book explains in depth how to build web applications using Django including the basics of dynamic web pages, the Django templating system interacting with databases, and web forms. The second half of this book discusses higher-level concepts such as caching, security, and how to deploy Django. The appendixes form a reference for the commands and configurations available in Django. This book is for anyone who wants to use the powerful Django framework to build dynamic web sites quickly and easily About the Authors 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. He lives in Chicago and maintains a weblog at www.Holovaty.com. 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&emdash;what little of it there is&emdash;he fancies himself a chef. Reviews and Rating: Amazon Barnes & Noble Related Book Categories: Web Frameworks Python Programming Web Design and Programming Read and Download Links: The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, 2nd edition ©2009 Book Home |