Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.6

Two Scoops of Django

by Daniel Roy Greenfeld, Audrey Roy

Update! The third edition, Two Scoops of Best Practices For Django 1.8 is available! Revised and expanded to 532 pages, it's a whole new book full of new material. Please consider it before purchasing this edition! Two Scoops of Best Practices For Django 1.6 is chock-full of even more material that will help you with your Django projects. We'll introduce you to various tips, tricks, patterns, code snippets, and techniques that we've picked up over the years. We have put thousands of hours into the second edition of the book, writing and revising its material to include over 130 new pages of concise, example-packed text containing 5 new chapters and 3 new appendices. Table of Contents What is everyone saying about Two Scoops of Django?

Genres: Programming, Technology, Technical, Nonfiction, Computer Science, Software

446 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2014

About the author

Over the course of his life, Daniel has:

* Studied history
* Learned how to fight with swords
* Ridden horses
* Cycled thousands of miles
* Performed cartwheels in capoeira circles on multiple continents
* Worked as an engineer at NASA
* Married a woman he dreamed about before he ever met her

He believes this combination of skills and experiences makes him the ideal fantasy and tech author.

Reviews

[Mavaddat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent, practical best-practise guidelines for Python Django delivered in the context of humour and personal experience.

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

As I always say, this is the best book on Django. I have read a lot on Django, but this is by far the most comprehensive book on the topic, while still being humble and having hundreds on references for every topic explained. This book is not for Django beginners, you need some practice before appreciating the best practices...But it's indeed a great resource, I cannot recommend this enough.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is, as the title indicates, not a tutorial or a how-to, but a best practices guide. Aimed for the Django expert, it will still provide useful tips to all but the very greenest of beginners. It refers to a great deal of other material, and covers every basic aspect of an ordinary application, from the core structural materials of models, views, and the like to vital supporting practices such as testing, documentation, and security.

It is a book with good humor and a friendly spirit. The one thing I didn't care for was how much whitespace it has, at times feeling quite wasteful. Overall, it won't change your life, but it does deliver what it promises, two scoops of well-considered best practices.

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

An amazingly useful reference for the experienced Django developer. This is not a "how-to" or beginner's reference, but rather a distillation of (opinionated) best practices. Even if you don't agree with everything here, it's worth any Django dev reading this from cover to cover.

[Dan O'Donovan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book. Well worth it.

[Anton Antonov · Rating 5 out of 5]

The must read for every Django dev.