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"The Definitive Guide to Django" is now shipping from Amazon. The book looks absolutely fantastic (bias disclosure: I contributed the newforms chapter)—huge congratulations to Adrian and Jacob.

6 comments

As great it is to got a book about Django, I still think it is a big mistake to put that book into developers hands before the 1.0.

Sorry to contrast with the big enthiousasm about this.

Rik - 12th December 2007 03:33 - #
Rik,
I believe the Rails book came out before 1.0, didn't it?

Tony - 12th December 2007 03:45 - #
Dear Rik. If you have ever worked with web you should know that web evolves each day. Talking about 1.0 or 2.0 is just silly when it comes to web where something modern today can be deprecated tomorrow.

Martin - 12th December 2007 07:54 - #
$30 at amazon.com and 40EUR at amazon.de? that's not fair :(

mike - 12th December 2007 09:06 - #
There are various sellers on amazon.co.uk, who are the cheapest I've found so far.
James - 12th December 2007 09:23 - #
Martin: when it comes to Django, the "1.0 milestone2 apparently is really important. On the Django wiki's backwards compatibility page, it states:
As Django is still in pre-1.0 mode, we haven't yet committed to maintaining backwards compatibility. [...] Of course, once we reach 1.0, we'll be strongly committed to backward compatibility.
So Rik does actually have a very valid point.
FatBusinessman - 17th December 2007 11:20 - #