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Learning Website Development with Django

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Learning Website Development with Django

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Learning Website Development with Django
Apr, 2008 | 264 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Website Development with Django
Learning Website Development with Django
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django
Introduction to Django
The MVC Pattern in Web Development
Why Python?
Why Django?
History of Django
Summary
2
Getting Started
Getting Started
Installing the Required Software
Creating Your First Project
Summary
3
Building a Social Bookmarking Application
Building a Social Bookmarking Application
A Word about Django Terminology
URLs and Views: Creating the Main Page
Models: Designing an Initial Database Schema
Templates: Creating a Template for the Main Page
Putting It All Together: Generating User Pages
Summary
4
User Registration and Management
User Registration and Management
Session Authentication
Improving Template Structure
User Registration
Account Management
Summary
5
Introducing Tags
Introducing Tags
The Tag Data Model
Creating the Bookmark Submission Form
A Word on Security
Summary
6
Enhancing the User Interface with Ajax
Enhancing the User Interface with Ajax
Ajax and Its Advantages
Using an Ajax Framework in Django
The jQuery JavaScript Framework
Implementing Live Searching of Bookmarks
Editing Bookmarks in Place
Auto-Completion of Tags
Summary
7
Voting and Commenting
Voting and Commenting
Sharing Bookmarks on the Main Page
Commenting on Bookmarks
Summary
8
Creating an Administration Interface
Creating an Administration Interface
Activating the Administration Interface
Customizing the Administration Interface
Users, Groups and Permissions
Summary
9
Advanced Browsing and Searching
Advanced Browsing and Searching
Adding RSS Feeds
Advanced Searching
Organizing Content into Pages (Pagination)
Summary
10
Building User Networks
Building User Networks
Building Friend Networks
Inviting Friends Via Email
Improving the Interface with Messages
Summary
11
Extending and Deploying
Extending and Deploying
Internationalization (i18n)
Improving Performance with Caching
Unit Testing
Deploying Django
Summary
12
What Next?
What Next?
Custom Template Tags and Filters
Model Managers and Custom SQL
Generic Views
Contributed Sub-Frameworks
Message System
Subscription System
User Scores
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Ayman Hourieh holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science. He joined the engineering team at Google in January 2008. Prior to that, he worked with web application development for more than two years. In addition, he has been contributing to several Open Source projects such as Mozilla Firefox. Ayman also worked as a teaching assistant in Computer Science courses for one year. Even after working with a variety of technologies, Python remains Ayman's favorite programming language. He found Django to be a powerful and flexible Python framework that helps developers to produce high-quality web applications in a short time.

I would like to thank my wife, Nadia, for all her help in writing this book. Not only did she provide support and motivation, but she also helped me greatly in proofreading and testing. I would also like to thank my mother and father for their continuous support and encouragement.

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