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Our Django Book is Launched

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Re: Our Django Book is Launched

#11
Purchased! This looks awesome, I literally just set up django yesterday and had a huge amount of unanswered questions while setting it up. Like you have mentioned, I had a real hard time finding the 'best' practices to set up the environment. Anxious to get home and start reading.

Re: Our Django Book is Launched

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post #4

So, full disclaimer: I was one of the editors of this book. This is a really great 'best practices' book for Django developers of all skill levels. In the Django community, there are a variety of practices that people tend to use: webapp structure, coding conventions, library preferences, etc. As a Django developer, finding out 'which way should I do X' is often harder than it seems: there are tons of articles on Goo…

Wow, I didn't even notice you were one of the editors to this book. Glad I bought it even more now! See you in heapify ;).

Re: Our Django Book is Launched

#16
post #6

Does it mostly focus on Django on Python 2, or is there a good portion that deals with Django on Python 3 as well?

Django on Python3 is no different from Django on Python2. The underlying language doesn't change the semantics of the framework.

Re: Our Django Book is Launched

#18
One of my big concerns is user / session security.

I have tried to follow and reason through discussions on stackoverflow and much of tpatchek's notes. I would be interested in how "high level" the security chapter is from anyone who has shelled out already.

For example I assume I will

1. only use persona or openid (avoids storing passwords in my servers thus making a lot of things much much easier)

2. sessions - store absolutley nothing in a session cookie other than a nonce session id, and lookup everrything I need from cache on servers form that sessionId

3. That seems to be it really

I just do not know where to go to have this discussion sensibly - any hints?

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