<p style="margin:0px">Django is an amazingly powerful system for deploying websites and managing content of all kinds. But programming Django hasn't always been easy -- until now.<b>Django Unleashed</b> is your step-by-step, beginner-friendly guide to leveraging Django's core capabilities and its powerful contributed library. You'll learn the most effective way possible: by building a complete Django website, hands-on. As you do, expert Django consultant and trainer Andrew Pinkham reveals how Django works, how to write Python code that leverages Django's immense capabilities, and how to apply powerful web patterns to build solutions that are robust, reliable, and secure.</p><p style="margin:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px">You'll start simple, and learn to write Python code to solve increasingly challenging problems. Coverage includes:</p><ul><li><div style="margin:0px">Creating custom template filters and tags</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Writing custom form validation</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Diving into Django's source code to troubleshoot unexpected behavior</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Rapidly extending site functionality with Django's contributed library</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Automating data input into a database</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Mastering powerful strategies to minimize the amount of code you need to write</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Implementing user authentication with Django's library</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Deploying your site online</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Splitting and refactoring your code for public reuse</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Avoiding security pitfalls such as SQL Injection, XSS, and clickjacking attacks</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">And much more</div></li></ul>