Mastering Django: Core by Nigel George

Key FeaturesGain a complete understanding of Django—the most popular, Python-based web framework in the worldGain the skills to successfully designing, developing, and deploying your appThis book is packaged with fully described code so you can learn the fundamentals and the advanced topics to get a complete understanding of all of Djangos core functionsBook DescriptionMastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django.The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, youll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain.This book is also a programmers manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.What you will learnUse Django to access user-submitted form data, validate it, and work with itGet to know advanced URLconf tips and tricksExtend Djangos template system with custom codeDefine models and use the database API to create, retrieve, update, and delete recordsFully extend and customize the default implementation as per your projects needsTest and deploy your Django applicationGet to know more about Djangos session, cache Framework, and middlewareAbout the AuthorNigel George is a business systems developer who specializes in the application of open source technologies to solve common business problems. He has a broad range of experience in software development—from writing database apps for small business to developing the back end and UI for a distributed sensor network at the University of Newcastle, Australia.Nigel also has over 15 years experience in technical writing for business. He has written several training manuals and hundreds of technical procedures for corporations and Australian government departments. He has been using Django since version 0.96 and has written applications in C, C#, C++, VB, VBA, HTML, JavaScript, Python and PHP.He has another book on Django—Beginning Django CMS—published by Apress in December 2015.Nigel lives in Newcastle, NSW, Australia.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Django and Getting StartedViews and URLconfsTemplatesModelsThe Django Admin SiteFormsAdvanced Views and URLconfsAdvanced TemplatesAdvanced ModelsGeneric ViewsUser Authentication in DjangoTesting in DjangoDeploying DjangoGenerating Non-HTML ContentDjango SessionsDjangos Cache FrameworkDjango MiddlewareInternationalizationSecurity in DjangoMore on Installing DjangoAdvanced Database ManagementModel Definition ReferenceDatabase API ReferenceGeneric View ReferenceSettingsBuilt-in Template Tags and FiltersRequest and Response ObjectsDeveloping Django with Visual Studio