Paperback: 474 pages Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account (November 30, 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 1784391913 ISBN-13: 978-1784391911 Create your own line of successful web applications with Django About This Book Learn Django by building four fully-functional, real-world web applications from scratch Develop powerful web applications quickly using the best coding practices Integrate other technologies into your application with clear, step-by-step explanations and comprehensive example code Who This Book Is For If you are a web developer who is completely new to or familiar with Django and wants to make the most of it, this book is for you. Some basic knowledge of Python, HTML, and JavaScript is recommended. What You Will Learn Build practical real-world web applications with Django Use Django with other technologies such as Redis, Celery, Solr and Memcached Develop pluggable Django applications Create advanced features, optimize your code and use the cache framework Add internationalization to your Django projects Enhance the user experience using JavaScript and AJAX Add social features to your projects Build RESTful APIs for your applications
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Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information First published: November 2015 Production reference: 1261115 Published by packt Publishing ltd Livery place 35 Livery street Birmingham b3 2PB, UK ISBN978-1-78439191-1 www.packtpub.com Credits Author Project Coordinator Antonio mele Neha bhatnagar Reviewer Proofreader Tarun behal Safis editin Alasdair nicol Alex robbins Indexer Rekha nair Glen robertson Derek Steelman Production coordinate Aparna bhagat Commissioning Editor Akram hussain Cover work Acquisition Editor Larissa pinto Content Development Editor Arun nadar Technical editor Rupali shrawane Copy Editor Vatsal Surt about the author Antonio Mele holds an MSc in Computer Science. He has been developing django projects since 2006 and leads the django es Spanish Django community. He has founded Zenx It, a technology company that creates web applications for clients of several industries Antonio has also worked as a CTO for several technology-based start-ups. His father inspired his passion for computers and programming about the reviewers arun behal is a full-stack software engineer with 4 years of experience in building and delivering high-quality applications using Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and other open source technologies. He is passionate about software development and enjoys exploring open source projects Over the years, he has provided consulting services to several organizations and has played many different roles such as cloud administrator, frontend technologies, software architect, ERP consultant, and software developer Tarun has a bachelors degree in computer engineering from the Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Noida, India. He currently lives in Gurgaon, India and works with Nagarro Software Pvt Ltd. In the digital world, he can be contacted by e-mail at tarunbehalghotmail com I feel very honored to have been asked to review this book. This was an amazing experience for me as I learned a lot on the way through, as I am sure you will too. I'd like to thank my family, especially my brother Varun, and all my colleagues for their constant support and motivation I feel honored to have been asked to review this book. this was an amazing experience as I learned a lot, as I am sure you will too Alasdair nicol is a Python developer from Scotland. He discovered django in 2009 while learning python, and was instantly hooked. After 5 years with UK-based hosting provider memset Hosting, he recently started working at SpatialBuzz, who provide saaS for mobile nctwork opcrators When he's not coding, Alasdair enjoys playing squash and running Alex robbins is a programmer living in Dallas, Texas. He loves programmin in Clojure and Python, doing anything from web development to data science He has been using diango since 2008 and enjoying it the whole time. when not programming, he spends his time with his beautiful wife and amazing son Alex has also contributed distributed processing recipes to Clojure Cookbook and has technically reviewed Enterprise data workflows with Cascadin g Glen robertson is a software engineer from New Zealand. He currently works at Lyft, where he builds applications in Python and PHP to help grow their transportation network and fill up more empty car seats on the road. Prior to that, he worked for Trulia, where he built heat-map visualizations with GeoDjango and PostGis to show local information to homebuyers such as crime rates and commute times Glen has a bachelor in information technology, majoring in software engineering from Victoria University of Wellington Derek Stegelman is a senior web application developer at Kansas State University. 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