Practical Django Projects, Second Edition

Introduction

The past few years have seen an explosion in the development of dynamic, database-driven web sites. Whereas many sites were once built using nothing but hand-written HTML, or a few CGI scripts or server-side includes, today's database-backed web applications have become the norm for everything from personal blogs to online stores to the social networking sites that have revolutionized the way many people use the Web.

But this has come at a cost. Developing these applications, even for relatively simple uses, involves a significant amount of complex work, and much of that work ends up being repeated for each new application. Although web developers have always had access to libraries of code that could automate certain tasks, such ...