The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right

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 The Definitive Guide to 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.

Table of Content:

1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Django
2. Chapter 2: Getting Started
3. Chapter 3: The Basics of Dynamic Web Pages
4. Chapter 4: The Django Template System
5. Chapter 5: Interacting with a Database: Models
6. Chapter 6: The Django Administration Site
7. Chapter 7: Form Processing
8. Chapter 8: Advanced Views and URLconfs
9. Chapter 9: Generic Views
10. Chapter 10: Extending the Template Engine
11. Chapter 11: Generating Non-HTML Content
12. Chapter 12: Sessions, Users, and Registration
13. Chapter 13: Caching
14. Chapter 14: Other Contributed Subframeworks
15. Chapter 15: Middleware
16. Chapter 16: Integrating with Legacy Databases and Applications
17. Chapter 17: Extending Django's Admin Interface
18. Chapter 18: Internationalization
19. Chapter 19: Security
20. Chapter 20: Deploying Django
21. Appendix A: Case Studies
22. Appendix B: Model Definition Reference
23. Appendix C: Database API Reference
24. Appendix D: Generic View Reference
25. Appendix E: Settings
26. Appendix F: Built-in Template Tags and Filters
27. Appendix G: The django-admin Utility
28. Appendix H: Request and Response Objects