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Tue, 19 May 2009 20:44:48 +0000 28 Comments

In celebration of my new blog, and in the spirit of my recent work with Python, I have two Python themed books to give away. Update: I have given away the books. Thanks for everyone who showed interest.

The eBooks

Thanks to Packt Publishing for providing the following books in PDF format:

The Rules

All you need to do is leave a single comment below that demonstrates the following:

Your interest in Python
Your interest in either Plone or Django

In one week I will contact you (if you are chosen) via email with information about the books (when you leave a comment you will be required to enter a valid email). Anything that appears to be spam will be automatically deleted.

Tagged in : Django, Plone, Python

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28 Comments for "Free Web Development eBooks"

Comment 1 Zac

Wow, I wish I was planning to learn Python :p but I want to get better with rails first...

That's a cool giveaway, though!

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:32:35 +0000 Link

Comment 2 andreas

I think Plone is my next Pojekt what I wish to learn. With this opportunity, what is with SimpleMC? I need it. ;-)
thanks!

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:32:35 +0000 Link

Comment 3 Russell Jones

Congrats on your new blog Jason! The book idea is neat too, Might be a good way to get rid of some of mine.

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:32:35 +0000 Link

Comment 4 Jason Leveille

@Zac: You'll find Python ... someday

@Russell Jones: Thanks

@andres: Yeah, I need to get SimpleMC back online. I knocked it offline when I installed apache2-mpm-worker

Wed, 20 May 2009 15:20:53 +0000 Link

Comment 5 Sanket

I have started a website development work for a local community and was doing it in django. It's really the framework to go for, and the best part are the available pluggables... all u need to do is to give them the CSS/Styling or in short your own templates.

Making website is more fun with django :)
Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:50 +0000 Link

Comment 6 Geoffrey S. Knauth

I want to learn more about web programming in Python. I've done it before, but the world keeps changing, and in the meantime I've been working with Scheme, Ruby, Smalltalk, Clojure...
Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:50 +0000 Link

Comment 7 Kmouts

I am a Python fan! After 5-6 of years of Java development, I was thankfully enlighted with the Python world...
I selected Django as the best web framework to start our Intranet development. I am still new in the field, but even DjangoAdmin alone makes miracles...
Long live Open Source!
Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:50 +0000 Link

Comment 8 Chris Hunter

I'm very interested in learning more about Django, although I'm developing under Python 2.3, which is probably not an ideal environment
Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:59 +0000 Link

Comment 9 Just

I will love to get a copy of those book, im in the learning process of django and want to develop one project with django.
Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:59 +0000 Link

Comment 10 b0j3

I'm a Python user for quite a long time so I decided to create a web page using some Python environment.
After some research I decided to create a provided website (syndeenation) with Turbogears.
Since I need to create a better site I spoke with some users in Slovenia and found out that Django is used more, so I checked it.
It scratches itches I have with Turbogears so I decided to use it from now on.
Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:59 +0000 Link

Comment 11 Ariel Nunez

Read your post on the Django mailing list.

A Django book for a comment sounds like a good deal :)
Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:59 +0000 Link

Comment 12 Dan Cooper

making my own site in django and have even made a fairly extensive twitter clone. using http://athe.la as a development blog to keep track of my progress.

also written smoe django snippets and am a contributer to the django-users google group

P.s. Pick me!
Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:59 +0000 Link

Comment 13 Allan Whatmough

Hi! I've been using Python for a while. I've selected Django as my web development framework of choice. The 'Django 1.0 Website Development' book looks really useful. Cheers
Fri, 22 May 2009 06:35:05 +0000 Link

Comment 14 Alan

I found your comment in django forums too. I'm also interested in the django book, since thats what im learning now. I've learned alot in last months, because i have few nice ideas for some websites. I've learned html, css, js and now django because i have heard many good things about it.

So far i've managed to accomplish everything with the help of django forums. I think the book would be good way to gain extra knowledge and more insight than official documentation offers.

Alan
Fri, 22 May 2009 06:35:05 +0000 Link

Comment 15 Jason Leveille

Just to be clear, I have one Django book, and one Plone book. I will only be giving these 2 books away (not everyone who leaves a comment will be receiving a book ... unfortunately, again, I only have the 2 books).
Fri, 22 May 2009 06:35:05 +0000 Link

Comment 16 Filipe Silvestrim

Hey Jason! Nice idea about share theses books with people interested!

My interest with python goes in 2 different directions: the first one is that I'm a game developer and I really love work with python and opengl (pyopengl) and pygame to test things. I love python because I really can create softwares extensions and others this. the second direction is regarding my job, there I work with python for web.

As I'm new I'm python for web I've been studying and reading blogs/tutorials about the incredible framework called django. And as much as I improve in django I really think that in the future this will help me to work managing games with django (as I've being seeing in blogs that already have theses kind of API's).

So... this is the why I love python and I'm interested in Django.
Fri, 22 May 2009 06:35:12 +0000 Link

Comment 17 Ali Kusnadi

yeah.. django help me..and help everybody.. for create website or blog..
Fri, 22 May 2009 06:35:12 +0000 Link

Comment 18 lperkov

I'm new in Django and I really like it :) thank you for giving us some good literature for learning.. :)
Fri, 22 May 2009 06:35:12 +0000 Link

Comment 19 Dale DeWitt

I read I learn.
Fri, 22 May 2009 09:13:14 +0000 Link

Comment 20 Thierry

I've been learning and using Django for the last 6+ weeks and I'm adoring it. I've already read through Python Web Development with Django. I will like to learn more about this amazing framework from another author's perspective.
Fri, 22 May 2009 09:13:14 +0000 Link

Comment 21 JC Brand

Hi Jason,

I already have the Practical Plone 3 book and Marin Aspeli's Plone 3 book, both bought from Packt Publishing.

I'd love to have the Django book however!

So... pick me! pick me!

That is all.
Fri, 22 May 2009 09:13:33 +0000 Link

Comment 22 Richard

I am really interested in getting deeper into django. Thanks Jason for your generous giveaway.

P.S. Is plone something that I can use with a django app? Will it help further my site if I am trying to develop a django project?

TIA,
Richard
Fri, 22 May 2009 11:40:08 +0000 Link

Comment 23 Jason Leveille

@Richard, Plone is a CMS built on top of Zope and Python. Though I'm sure applications can (and have) been written which allow the two to communicate, you can think of them as distinct and different.

I've clarified above, but want to clarify again. I am giving away 2 PDF books. Next week I will be contacting 2 people to give the books to. The only prerequisite for consideration is leaving a comment on this site. I'm a little nervous that folks might think I'm giving away a book to everyone that leaves a comment, which is most definitely not the case.
Fri, 22 May 2009 11:40:08 +0000 Link

Comment 24 Santiago

I work with Plone and I'm really interested about start using Django.
I made my blog from ground with django (I didn't copy&paste a guide) and python is the best language in the world.. What else could I say...
Fri, 22 May 2009 16:29:54 +0000 Link

Comment 25 Adrian

Good idea to drive traffic!
Django book would be very welcome, still getting my head around the finer points of 1.0.
Fri, 22 May 2009 16:29:54 +0000 Link

Comment 26 Jenny

I am a python fan though I have not had many positive Plone interactions to date. I know a lot of people out there are passionate about Plone, so I am hoping by reading the book I can better understand the positive attributes.
Sat, 23 May 2009 06:30:08 +0000 Link

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