Daniel Reis - Odoo 11 Development Essentials

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Daniel Reis has had a long career in the IT industry, most as a consultant implementing business applications in variety of sectors, and today works for Securitas, a multinational security services provider.

He has been working with Odoo (formerly OpenERP) since 2010, is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association projects, is currently a member of the board of the Odoo Community Association, and collaborates with ThinkOpen Solutions, a leading Portuguese Odoo integrator.

Olivier Dony is a Belgian engineer specialized in network engineering, databases, and
information security. He enjoys analyzing and solving complex problems and getting
to the bottom of seemingly inexplicable bugs.

He joined Odoo Belgium in 2009, where he had the chance to take on many roles,
such as working with the community, running the cloud platform with his team,
setting up the security response team, or just as importantly, solving interesting
problems everyday within the Odoo R&D.

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Odoo is a full featured open source platform to build applications. Based on this core framework, a suite of integrated applications was built, covering all business areas from CRM and Sales to Stocks and Accounting.

Beyond these out-of-the-box features, Odoo's framework was built with extensibility in mind. Extensions and modifications can be implemented as modules, to be applied over the module with the feature being changed, without actually changing it. This provides a clean and easy -to-control and customized applications.

This capability to combine several modules into feature-rich applications, along with the open source nature of Odoo, are probably important factors explaining the community that grew around Odoo. In fact, there are thousands of community modules available for Odoo, covering virtually every topic, and the number of people getting involved has been steadily growing every year.

Odoo 11 Development Essentials provides a step-by-step guide to Odoo development, allowing readers to quickly climb the learning curve and become productive in the Odoo application platform. At the same time, it tries to provide good reference materials, to be kept nearby every time you are working with Odoo.

This book was written keeping in mind developers with minimal programming knowledge but a strong will to learn. We will use a lot the Python language and explain how to run Odoo in a Ubuntu/Debian system, but little previous knowledge on them is assumed. The code examples are kept simple and clear, and they are accompanied with appropriate explanations to help build up the knowledge on them.

Experienced developers, already familiar with Odoo, should also be able to benefit from this book. Not only does it allow them to consolidate their knowledge, it also provides an easy way to get up to date with all the details that changed with Odoo 11.0. In fact, special care was taken to highlight all the relevant changes between Odoo versions since 8.0.

Finally, this book should provide a solid reference to be used daily, both by newcomers and experienced developers. The documentation of the relevant differences between the several Odoo versions should also be a good resource for any developer working with different Odoo versions at the same time or porting modules to other versions.