A Django book is on the way
As we announced at PyCon today, lead Django devs Jacob and Adrian are working on a Django book! We've been working on it for the past couple of months and already have (the first drafts of) a couple of chapters done at this point.
Apress is the publisher. We're excited to be in the fine company of Dive Into Python and the Joel on Software book. Both are fantastic reads, by the way.
One particularly cool thing about the book project is that we're open-sourcing it. Not only will the book be made available under an open-source license digitally, we're also aiming to get people involved in drafts of the book as it's being worked on.
Can't announce definitive dates yet, but we'll keep you posted on this site.
Posted by Adrian Holovaty on February 24, 2006
Comments
Mike February 25, 2006 at 1:31 a.m.
Fantastic news. I'll be the first one to buy it.
Michael February 25, 2006 at 7:05 a.m.
Great!!! Having a good quality book about Django should really help with the Django adoption (especially if you are trying to sell it to management).
The other two things that seem to be required by management are oracle and transaction support. (Lately it has been quiet on the transaction effort, or am I wrong?)
YangKing February 25, 2006 at 7:28 a.m.
I'll buy too!!
Allan February 25, 2006 at 9:04 a.m.
Awesome news! Looking forward to it.
Jan February 25, 2006 at 10:57 a.m.
It's great to know the news! I'll buy that book definitely!
Armin Ronacher February 25, 2006 at 12:08 p.m.
Wohoooo. You rock!!!
Luis February 25, 2006 at 4:46 p.m.
Great!
Will it have illustrations and screenshots for dummies like me?
Adrian Holovaty February 25, 2006 at 5:09 p.m.
Luis: It will definitely have illustrations and screenshots where appropriate.
Paul Bx February 25, 2006 at 5:14 p.m.
Very cool! Especially the open source bit. Those early feedback cycles will really improve the quality of the final printed book.
Erik Speckman February 25, 2006 at 6:16 p.m.
This is great news. I'm already impressed with your commitment to the online documentation, but there is still no substitute for portable, high-resolution bound paper sometimes.
Pradeep Gowda February 26, 2006 at 11:10 a.m.
The book will go a long way in improving the marketability of Django (and Python frameworks).
Your decision to make the book open source is commendable.
Great work! Rock On!!
Dagur February 26, 2006 at 11:51 a.m.
When can I preorder!!
Gasper February 26, 2006 at 3:10 p.m.
Can I get a signed book? ;)
Jack Shedd February 26, 2006 at 3:17 p.m.
Brilliant on the open-sourcing of the book.
Marlowe February 26, 2006 at 7:36 p.m.
Im looking forward for the book too.
Igor February 27, 2006 at 1:33 a.m.
Congratulations!
Adrian, which version of Django this book will cover? 1.0?
bornFreeThinker February 27, 2006 at 2:47 a.m.
una buon libro riguardo a django lo ritengo doveroso e necessario, sebbene mi sembra necessario sottolinare come l'ottimo tutorial spieghi in pochi passi le potenzialità di questo framework.
p.s. consiglio di inserire un CD con python, django, e la reference manual di diajngo.
Graham King February 27, 2006 at 4:29 a.m.
Excellent ! Let us know as soon as there's something we can see.
Tapiwa February 27, 2006 at 5:32 a.m.
Great stuff.
Formalising the documentation in a dead trees book is always a good thing :-)
Justin February 27, 2006 at 10:10 a.m.
This is the best news I've heard all day! Be sure to let us know when we can pre-order the print version, I want one!
falcon February 27, 2006 at 3:06 p.m.
I keep reading that Django will soon have a major update (magic removal?), I've been holding off on diving into Django until that happens...any eta?
Another thing, there is plenty of documentation (whic is a great thing! :)), but is there a single html page (or pdf) which I can print to read the docs off-line? I realize that is what the book is for but I need to get started with this django thing very soon :)
Gasper February 27, 2006 at 4:31 p.m.
falcon, you can check out subversion repository or download the tarball, the docs are all included.
falcon February 27, 2006 at 5:12 p.m.
Gasper, I'll check it out, there is a single printable file there?
falcon February 27, 2006 at 5:45 p.m.
I hope the book has a section for developer who wish to understand the Django kernel!
__SERF__ February 27, 2006 at 7:46 p.m.
good call on open sourcing the book! Bravo!
hapee March 1, 2006 at 6:25 a.m.
great, hope it will be there soon. But will a book be flexible enough?
dimitri March 1, 2006 at 7:50 a.m.
I believe it is a paperback, not a hardcover. So it should be flexible enough ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist...
A Django book is a brilliant idea and a good excuse to get away from the computerscreen. Can't wait..
Baishampayan Ghose March 1, 2006 at 8:48 a.m.
I don't have words! I love you Adrian & Jacob!! The idea of having a `Free' book is just spectacular. Rock on!
Marcelo R. Minholi March 1, 2006 at 3:07 p.m.
I'm interested in translate it to portuguese, If it's possible .
Gord Allott March 2, 2006 at 1:57 p.m.
A book is a great idea that i would definatly be interested in perchasing, but the cynical part of me wonders if this will hinder Django's progress towards 1.0 any. I'm having to put off developing Django with some major projects because of no backwards compatiblity with newer versions.
still great news though :) especially the open-source bit, which will be great for people dabbling with django but whom arn't 100% commited to it yet.
stan March 2, 2006 at 9:55 p.m.
Great, Why not open your book into svn? And we can give the reply for you fix it better to better? thanks
Glenn Tenney March 3, 2006 at 2:38 p.m.
Not all of the documentation is in the docs directory of the tarball -- e.g. the http://www.djangoproject.com/document... are not there that I can find.
Also, I dearly would love to locate Django reference documents -- i.e. here are all the arguments to field type X presented as a standalone non-tutorial reference. The docs are very useful, but have (a) some related references scattered throughout multiple doc files, and (b) have tutorial-type presentations ("let's do it this way, then add this, then add that") interspersed with reference-type material.
Robert Hicks March 3, 2006 at 8:54 p.m.
I cannot even touch Django without Oracle support in my shop. : (
Michele Campeotto March 5, 2006 at 2:14 p.m.
Will the book talk of the Django before or after the magic removal?
Cheng Zhang March 7, 2006 at 10 a.m.
Fantastic! I'd like to help translating it into Chinese ASAP. :-)
Robert Gilbert March 12, 2006 at 2:04 p.m.
All the best !
Johny Fisher March 15, 2006 at 2:18 p.m.
Do you have a road map beyond 1.0? What are the plans? Can we have small note on future ideas inside Django
John
Edwin April 1, 2006 at 6:52 p.m.
Excellent news! Originally I was looking at Zope 3 for my projects, but I'm leaning more and more towards Django now. In addition, I love the books that Apress has been putting out, so I'll definitely take a close look at it!
Raineri Bello May 4, 2006 at 10:11 p.m.
Great news! I can't wait!
Johannes July 17, 2006 at 9:44 a.m.
Any news about when it's out?
Jesore July 18, 2006 at 9:16 a.m.
Amazon has a release date of October 30, 2006 - but that could well be a dummy date.
As they open source the book, there may be some beta versions earlier. My guess is, that they release the first beta version with the next django stable and the final version of the book with django 1.0.
netjunkie August 9, 2006 at 5:37 p.m.
Would be great if the authoring of the book is SVN, we can all put a few ideas in especially for code samples case projects.
This concept has been successful with www.thinkpython.org book
ajax August 30, 2006 at 4:42 p.m.
Will the book cover some ajax development on django?
mario__ October 10, 2006 at 11:15 a.m.
Hello! I would like to know if... can we read the beta versions earlier than the amazon release date?
sstave October 11, 2006 at 12:02 a.m.
Any updates on the release date - how accurate is 10/30?
The point about it being an "open source" book is fantastic! I cant wait to get my grubby little fingers on this thing.
Vernon October 17, 2006 at 1:10 p.m.
Looks like the release date for the book has been pushed back to March 26, 2007 (according to Amazon). I'm fine with that, it's worth waiting for a good thing, thanks Adrian and Jacob for all your work making Django one kick-ass web application framework!
Peter April 18, 2007 at 2:59 a.m.
the release date is now JUNE 2007 ....
according to apress
Alexis Bellido May 2, 2007 at 11:57 p.m.
Cool! I know Apress always strives to produce great books and I'm pretty sure you guys have tons of great things to teach us all :)
Peter July 23, 2007 at 3:06 a.m.
the release date is now SEPTEMBER 2007 ....
Robin October 3, 2007 at 9:02 a.m.
Projected release date is now November 2007 according to Apress.
Bookpool.com is pre-selling this book at 51% off
Rob October 9, 2007 at 2:03 p.m.
Bookpool now saying it's a projected December 2007 release date.
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canen February 24, 2006 at 11:59 p.m.
Good luck with the book. Can't wait!