2016-02-10

Special Offer for the Readers of DjangoTricks Blog

Packt Publishing, the company that published my Django book, has a special offer for enthusiast and professional developers reading this blog. For two weeks you can get the eBook "Web Development with Django Cookbook - Second Edition" for half price. The eBook is available in PDF, ePub, Mobi, and Kindle formats. Also you will get access to download the related code files.

Use the discount code DJGTRK50 at the Packt Publishing bookstore.
The discount is valid until the 24th of February, 2016.

2016-02-06

Fresh Book for Django Developers

This week the post office delivered a package that made me very satisfied. It was a box with three paper versions of my "Web Development with Django Cookbook - Second Edition". The book was published at the end of January after months of hard, but fulfilling work in the late evenings and at weekends.

The first Django Cookbook was dealing with Django 1.6. Unfortunately, the support for that version is over. So it made sense to write an update for a newer Django version. The second edition was adapted for Django 1.8 which has a long-term support until April 2018 or later. This edition introduces new features added to Django 1.7 and Django 1.8, such as database migrations, QuerySet expressions, or System Check Framework. Most concepts in this new book should also be working with Django 1.9.

My top 5 favourite new recipes are these:

  • Configuring settings for development, testing, staging, and production environments
  • Using database query expressions
  • Implementing a multilingual search with Haystack
  • Testing pages with Selenium
  • Releasing a reusable Django app

The book is worth reading for any Django developer, but will be best understood by those who already know the basics of web development with Django. You can learn more about the book and buy it at the Packt website or Amazon.

I thank the Packt Publishing very much for long cooperation in the development of this book. I am especially thankful to acquisition editor Nadeem N. Bagban, content development editors Arwa Manasawala and Sumeet Sawant, and technical editor Bharat Patil. Also I am grateful for insightful feedback from the reviewer Jake Kronika.

What 5 recipes do you find the most useful?