Antonio has also worked as a CTO for several technology-based start-ups. His father inspired his passion for computers and programming.
About the Reviewers
Tarun Behal is a full-stack software engineer with 4 years of experience in building and delivering high-quality applications using Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and other open source technologies. He is passionate about software development and enjoys exploring open source projects. Over the years, he has provided consulting services to several organizations and has played many different roles such as cloud administrator, frontend technologies, software architect, ERP consultant, and software developer.
Tarun has a bachelors degree in computer engineering from the Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Noida, India. He currently lives in Gurgaon, India and works with Nagarro Software Pvt. Ltd. In the digital world, he can be contacted by e-mail at <>
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I feel very honored to have been asked to review this book. This was an amazing experience for me as I learned a lot on the way through, as I am sure you will too. I'd like to thank my family, especially my brother, Varun, and all my colleagues for their constant support and motivation.
I feel honored to have been asked to review this book. This was an amazing experience as I learned a lot, as I am sure you will too.
Alasdair Nicol is a Python developer from Scotland. He discovered Django in 2009 while learning Python, and was instantly hooked. After 5 years with UK-based hosting provider Memset Hosting, he recently started working at SpatialBuzz, who provide SaaS for mobile network operators.
When he's not coding, Alasdair enjoys playing squash and running.
Alex Robbins is a programmer living in Dallas, Texas. He loves programming in Clojure and Python, doing anything from web development to data science. He has been using Django since 2008 and enjoying it the whole time. When not programming, he spends his time with his beautiful wife and amazing son.
Alex has also contributed distributed processing recipes to Clojure Cookbook and has technically reviewed Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading .
Glen Robertson is a software engineer from New Zealand. He currently works at Lyft, where he builds applications in Python and PHP to help grow their transportation network and fill up more empty car seats on the road. Prior to that, he worked for Trulia, where he built heat-map visualizations with GeoDjango and PostGIS to show local information to homebuyers such as crime rates and commute times.
Glen has a bachelor in information technology, majoring in software engineering from Victoria University of Wellington.
Derek Stegelman is a senior web application developer at Kansas State University. He works on maintaining Python web applications written using the Django web framework. He has been working with Django for 5 years on websites and applications and actively contributes to the Django community through open source projects.
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Preface
Django is a powerful Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design, offering a relatively shallow learning curve. This makes it attractive to both novice and expert programmers.
This book will guide you through the entire process of developing professional web applications with Django. The book not only covers the most relevant aspects of the framework, it also teaches you how to integrate other popular technologies into your Django projects.
The book will walk you through the creation of real-world applications, solving common problems, and implementing best practices with a step-by-step approach that is easy to follow.
After reading this book, you will have a good understanding of how Django works and how to build practical, advanced web applications.