Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right

by Adrian Holovaty, Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Django, the Pythonbased equivalent to the Ruby on Rails web development framework, is hottest topics in web development. In The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Adrian Holovaty, one of Djangos creators, and Django lead developer Jacob KaplanMoss show you how they use this framework to create awardwinning 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 nonHTML 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 appendices for looking up configurations options and commands. In all, this book provides the ultimate tutorial and reference to the popular Django framework.

Genres: Computer Science

447 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Korey Fort · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very easy to read book.