Another Django book
I don’t know, you wait ages for a book on Django, then suddenly two come along at once - the second one being Professional Python Frameworks: Web 2.0 Programming with Django and TurboGears, by Dana Moore, Raymond Budd and William Wright.
Actually, this particular tome has beaten Adrian and Jacob’s The Definitive Guide to Django to the bookshelves by a good month or more. I’ve only had the merest of chances to flick through it since it arrived from Amazon this morning, but it looks interesting. Once novel feature is an interview with TurboGears’ creator, Kevin Dangoor (but, regrettably, no equivalent interview with any of Django’s core developers). I’m looking forward to delving into this more deeply over the weekend, then comparing it with the official book in a month or so.
While we are on the subject of the official Django book, I notice that the cover has changed again:
Should help with brand recognition! I wonder how they persuaded Apress to let them use the Django logo in place of the regular styling used for the title text of every other Apress book?…
November 16th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Actually, we didn’t have to try very hard to “persuade” Apress to use the logo; from the very start they wanted to work to merge our two “brands” together in some way. I’m pretty damn happy with what they came up with.
November 17th, 2007 at 2:08 am
I looked over it at B&N (or was it Borders) a few weeks ago, and it isn’t anything special. I actually don’t remember a thing about it. It was pretty basic.
November 17th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Actually there is an interview with Adrian Holovaty about Django on p. 330-333. Pretty good interview, and probably the best Django information in the book.
TurboGears seems to be covered pretty well, but Django seems an afterthought. They take you through building a very basic blog, and they go over a basic comment system while barely giving any notice about the built-in comment system that is more full-featured and easier to implement (though still largely undocumented in official docs).
Overall, I was disappointed in the WROX book. YMMV
December 10th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Hey Nick,
I’m the marketing product manager for Apress, and I was wondering if you’d be interested in writing a review of the book here on your blog. Let me know what you think!
December 11th, 2007 at 12:25 am
Julie: yes, I definitely do intend posting a review of some sort here…