A quick update on the Django Book:
Adrian and I wrapped up the last few bits last week, and the book went to the printer on Friday. It should start shipping to bookstores around the second week of December. There’s still a fair amount of work that needs to be done on the website, so I can’t put the final version of the book up just yet. However, the final book will be available online around the same time as the dead tree version.
Woohoo!
Nick Efford
Nov. 13th, 2007
4:30 p.m.
Fantastic news!
Like many Djangonauts, I've been dying to get my hands on this, and I'm sure it will have been worth the wait. Thanks for working so hard to get the definitive guide to Django out there into "dead tree land".
Sean Stoops
Nov. 13th, 2007
4:54 p.m.
Great to hear!
Nick Wade
Nov. 13th, 2007
5:10 p.m.
Woo! Finally no more emails from Amazon explaining that my order will be delayed! I can't wait to get my hands on it.
Kyle Fox
Nov. 13th, 2007
5:24 p.m.
So....does this mean Django is *almost* at 1.0?
Jeff Forcier
Nov. 13th, 2007
5:51 p.m.
Grats! Glad to hear it :) Can't wait for my copy.
Steve
Nov. 13th, 2007
6:20 p.m.
This is fantastic news!!! Having the book done will really give Django a boost.
Gustavo Picón
Nov. 13th, 2007
7:10 p.m.
Just preordered it. Congrats!
sandro
Nov. 13th, 2007
9:12 p.m.
Awesome news! Online docs are great but there is nothing better than the kinetics involved in reading a real life book! Can't wait.
Cam MacRae
Nov. 13th, 2007
9:13 p.m.
Great work Jacob!
Nils
Nov. 14th, 2007
12:44 a.m.
Fantastic! Great work!
Alistair
Nov. 14th, 2007
1:12 a.m.
That is absolutely fantastic Jacob, congratulations to everyone involved with it.
Florian Apolloner
Nov. 14th, 2007
1:22 a.m.
Great work :) Does this mean Django Version 1.0 will get out before Christmas? And I suppose the Book already describes newforms-admin (So you would need to get out djagno 1.0 out before shipping the book, as many people are waiting for this book to learn django).
Nevertheless thx for this great book, I will definitively advise newcomers to buy the book.
Jannis Leidel
Nov. 14th, 2007
2 a.m.
Jacob, Adrian, thanks! Just in time for christmas :)
Lars Holm Nielsen
Nov. 14th, 2007
2:16 a.m.
Great job guys :-) I'll definitely grab a copy from Amazon :-)
Lorenzo Bolognini
Nov. 14th, 2007
2:25 a.m.
Good job guys! Looking fw to it!
Nick
Nov. 14th, 2007
3:14 a.m.
When do you plan to update online version?
There are no "Chapter 7: Form processing", "Chapter 13: Comments", Appendixes (all).
Nick
Nov. 14th, 2007
3:16 a.m.
Sorry, you've already answered in the post. Were so glad that couldn't wait to read it to the end :)
Adam Rutkowski
Nov. 14th, 2007
5:31 a.m.
Contgratulations, can't wait :)
David
Nov. 14th, 2007
5:37 a.m.
Where can I preorder? Congratulations!
Bert Heymans
Nov. 14th, 2007
5:50 a.m.
It will be in my shelf as soon as possible! Congratulations!
Deryck Hodge
Nov. 14th, 2007
8:58 a.m.
Let me also lend my Congrats! :-)
I can only imagine how nice it must feel. ;-) :-)
Adrian Holovaty
Nov. 14th, 2007
10:09 a.m.
Kyle Fox: This has nothing to do with Django's version status -- 1.0 or otherwise. The book covers the current version of Django.
Josh
Nov. 14th, 2007
10:21 a.m.
It's amusing how long books like these stay relevent.
Beetle B.
Nov. 14th, 2007
10:39 a.m.
Many thanks
Cyril Doussin
Nov. 14th, 2007
10:48 a.m.
Brilliant! Thanks for you work on this, it'll be a very helpful resource!
Daniel Burtescu
Nov. 14th, 2007
11:15 a.m.
Adrian Holovaty: When you say "current version of Django" you mean 0.96 stable release or the current version in trunk?
Adrian Holovaty
Nov. 14th, 2007
11:37 a.m.
Daniel Burtescu: We tried to straddle both 0.96 and the current trunk, writing it in a way that (we hope) is pretty future-proof.
One of the many nice things about this project is that the book will continue to be available at djangobook.com, and that's a place for us to make updates to the text as the software matures.
Rajesh Dhawan
Nov. 14th, 2007
1:39 p.m.
Thanks for the fantastic work and congratulations!
Just pre-ordered my copy from Amazon :)
-Rajesh
Baczek
Nov. 14th, 2007
3:25 p.m.
What's interesting is how much help have you received through your neat comment system and how many of those comments influenced your decision with regard to content?
Paul Bissex
Nov. 14th, 2007
7:58 p.m.
Congratulations, guys! People tell me that writing books is hard work.
Pierre Nel
Nov. 15th, 2007
9:20 a.m.
Yipee!
Fredrik Sundqvist
Nov. 15th, 2007
10:08 a.m.
Yay!
barikko
Nov. 15th, 2007
10:56 a.m.
Thanks! Just ordered on amazon.
Suvash
Nov. 16th, 2007
10:32 a.m.
Congratulation to django book team,
i would personally like to thank Adrian and Jacob for making the online version of the django book freely available.
actually i am from Nepal. Here, i can't order book via Amazon and I dont think i can get the djangobook in our book store easily.
keep rocking with django.
Josh
Nov. 17th, 2007
8:56 a.m.
This is great news!! I know a lot of us have been anticipating the release of the "dead tree" version of the book for a long time now! And, as others have mentioned, it's just in time for Christmas! Hopefully I ramble about Django enough around my wife that she has an idea of what I would like for Christmas! hehe
Thanks for all the hard work and excellent product!
vips
Nov. 18th, 2007
2:07 p.m.
great news!! and great work..
thnx
Frank Wiles
Nov. 20th, 2007
12:44 p.m.
Congrats guys! A book is always more difficult to produce than it sounds at first! I'm glad you guys survived it!
Leo Burke
Nov. 24th, 2007
2:08 a.m.
Hi, the PDF book is already available on Apress website!
Manuel
Nov. 27th, 2007
12:34 p.m.
The first DjangoBook was just purchased by David at WebFaction!
(Of course it's a PDF edition)
http://forum.webfaction.com/viewtopic.php?pid=3860#p3860
David M.
Nov. 29th, 2007
12:19 p.m.
David at WebFaction may have been the first to get a PDF copy from WebFaction, but I am guessing I may be among the first to have pre-ordered the book at Amazon. I placed my order Oct.6, 2006 and can't wait to get my hands on it!
http://206.74.165.242/media/images/faithful.jpg
Congratulations, Jacob and Adrian!! Anything worth having is worth waiting for!
Roberto C.
Nov. 30th, 2007
2:45 a.m.
I'm glad to see the PDF version already available on the Apress website! Of course I've already pre-ordered the paper edition from Amazon but I'm tempted to buy the PDF now...
Congrats!
Henry
Dec. 8th, 2007
1:32 p.m.
Amazon is now shipping! http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1590597257
Grady
Dec. 10th, 2007
12:14 p.m.
My copy just arrived--here at hand. Congratulations, y'all.
Haiyang
Dec. 17th, 2007
8:40 p.m.
Have my department ordered a copy. Hope it can reach Beijing soon.
Jason Salas
Jan. 9th, 2008
9:23 p.m.
Great work Jacob!
http://www.jasonsalas.com/2008/01/book-review-definitive-guide-to-django.html