Product DescriptionAs two of the leading MVC web frameworks for Python, Django and TurboGears allow you to develop and launch sites in a fraction of the time compared to traditional techniques and they provide greater stability, scalability, and management than alternatives. Packed with examples, this book will help you discover a new methodology for designing, coding, testing, and deploying rich web applications.
A team of expert authors shows you the power of MVC frameworks and the capabilities of the TurboGears and Django packages. The Django chapters show you how to automate production of common web development tasks, portal creation, and content management, so you can focus on higher-level application issues and design. The TurboGears chapters illustrate how to rapidly create modern, highly interactive Web 2.0 applications. For both frameworks, you'll create useful applications that exemplify common Web 2.0 design paradigms and their solutions. Ultimately, you'll leverage your Python skills using Django and TurboGears and go from novice to RIA expert.
What you will learn from this book
* How you can use frameworks to save you time and frustration in the development cycle *
The elements, differences, and similarities of the TurboGears and Django frameworks *
Advanced capabilities of both frameworks and how they easily solve issues common to web applications *
Approaches to simplifying your client side JavaScript(r) with MochiKit, a Pythonic JavaScript library *
How to pair TurboGears with Flash for even more possibilities
Who this book is for
This book is for Python developers who want to learn rapid Web 2.0 development techniques using frameworks and incorporating a model-view-controller architecture.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Eh... where's the beef, Django-wise?
It's kinda hard to understand what this book is supposed to achieve. I mostly bought it because there were no other books about Django available at the time and I wanted something that went beyond the online Django doc. I did not read the TG parts much, because I wasn't really interested, having tried TG before. The little I read didn't look much better than the Django half though.
Short and sweet is that it did not significantly improve my knowledge of Django. All the examples are ... Read More
Rating: - Nearly useless for Django
I found this book to be nearly useless... the code is badly written and the depth of the material barely goes beyond the available (free) online documentation and tutorials, which are BTW, very well written.
If you're looking for information on the featured JavaScript library, Mochikit, save your time... you will find much more just by going to the website.
This is obviously a TurboGears book, the Django portion being an obvious afterthought and lacking some of the important ... Read More
Rating: - Django, Mochikit and TurboGears
This book teaches authors' insight about these useful technologies using carefully chosen working examples and sound pedagogy. It is the first book on Django and second book on TurboGears. I recommend the book to the Web Application Development class I am teaching this semester.
Rating: - Very poor forDjango
I bought this book to learn how to write Django. It is pretty bad. Lots of the examples are incomplete and don't actually work. It shows some stuff but leaves lots unexplained. It is very incomplete - I would not recommend it.
- Eh... where's the beef, Django-wise?
- Nearly useless for Django
- Django, Mochikit and TurboGears
