Django is an amazingly powerful system for creating modern, dynamic websites. But programming Django hasn’t always been easy—until now. Django Unleashed is your step-by-step, beginner-friendly guide to leveraging Django’s core capabilities and its powerful contributed library. You’ll learn in the most effective way possible: hands on, by building a fully functional Django website from scratch. You’ll even deploy the website to the cloud. As you build your website, expert Django consultant and trainer Andrew Pinkham reveals how websites operate; how Django makes building websites easy; how to write Python code that leverages its immense capabilities; and how to build solutions that are robust, reliable, and secure. You’ll start simply and learn to solve increasingly challenging problems: mastering new features and understanding how Django’s architecture shapes their behavior, and gaining essential knowledge for working with any web framework, not just Django.

How can you take advantage of the Django framework to integrate complex client-side interactions and real-time features into your web applications? Through a series of rapid application development projects, this hands-on book shows experienced Django developers how to include REST APIs, WebSockets, and client-side MVC frameworks such as Backbone.js into new or existing projects. Learn how to make the most of Django’s decoupled design by choosing the components you need to build the lightweight applications you want. Once you finish this book, you’ll know how to build single-page applications that respond to interactions in real time. If you’re familiar with Python and JavaScript, you’re good to go. Learn a lightweight approach for starting a new Django project Break reusable applications into smaller services that communicate with one another Create a static, rapid prototyping site as a scaffold for websites and applications Build a REST API with django-rest-framework Learn how to use Django with the Backbone.js MVC framework Create a single-page web application on top of your REST API Integrate real-time features with WebSockets and the Tornado networking library Use the book’s code-driven examples in your own projects

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Create your own line of successful web applications with DjangoAbout This Book• Learn Django by building four fully-functional, real-world web applications from scratch• Develop powerful web applications quickly using the best coding practices• Integrate other technologies into your application with clear, step-by-step explanations and comprehensive example codeWho This Book Is ForIf you are a web developer who is completely new or familiar with Django and want to make the most out of it, this book is for you. Some basic knowledge of Python, HTML, and JavaScript is beneficial, but is not required.What You Will Learn• Build a search engine with Django and Solr• Add asynchronous tasks to applications with Celery• Create pluggable Django applications by building an activity stream system• Enhance the user experience using AJAX views• Extend the Django Admin site with custom actions• Use third-party Django applications to add social authentication to projects• Manage payments and orders by integrating a third-party payment gateway• Engage users by building a gamification systemIn DetailDjango is a powerful Python web framework designed to solve all types of web development problems and questions, providing Python developers with an easy solution to web application development. With a wealth of third-party modules available, you'll be able to create a highly customizable web application with this powerful framework.This book will walk you through the creation of four professional Django projects and show you how to solve common problems and implement best practices.The book begins by first showing you how to create a simple blog and integrate it with third-party applications, before gradually moving on to extending this blog by adding features such as custom template tags and filters.You will build a complete social website, share its contents, track user actions in a timeline, and use Redis with Django to store item views. You will also build an online shop, manage its payments and orders, and add internationalization and localization to the project. Before you are introduced to content creation and building an evaluation system, you will build an e-learning application. Finally, you will build a gamification system where you will learn to build a badges application and get familiar with Django management commands.After reading this book, you will have a good understanding of how Django works and how to integrate it with other technologies. You will be able to build advanced Django applications for production use.Style and approachThis is an easy-to-follow guide to building four different production-ready Django projects. Each project focuses on a particular area of the framework and each topic within the projects is explained with practical examples and includes best practice recommendations.

Django Unchained is certainly Quentin Tarantino's most commercially-successful film and is arguably also his most controversial. Fellow director Spike Lee has denounced the representation of race and slavery in the film, while many African American writers have defended the white auteur. The use of extremely graphic violence in the film, even by Tarantino's standards, at a time when gun control is being hotly debated, has sparked further controversy and has led to angry outbursts by the director himself. Moreover, Django Unchained has become a popular culture phenomenon, with t-shirts, highly contentious action figures, posters, and strong DVD/BluRay sales. The topic (slavery and revenge), the setting (a few years before the Civil War), the intentionally provocative generic roots (Spaghetti Western and Blaxploitation) and the many intertexts and references (to German and French culture) demand a thorough examination. Befitting such a complex film, the essays collected here represent a diverse group of scholars who examine Django Unchained from many perspectives.

Learn how to leverage Django, the leading Python web application development framework, to its full potential in this advanced tutorial and reference. Updated for Django 1.5 and Python 3, Pro Django, Second Edition examines in great detail the complex problems that Python web application developers can face and how to solve them. It provides in–depth information about advanced tools and techniques available in every Django installation, running the gamut from the theory of Django’s internal operations to actual code that solves real–world problems for high–volume environments. Pro Django, Second Edition goes above and beyond other books, leaving the basics far behind and showing how Django can do things even its core developers never expected. By drawing on the dynamic nature of Python, you can write Django applications that stretch the limits of what you thought possible!