Programming Books

This book aims to teach best practices of Plone development, focusing on Plone 3.0. It covers setting up a suitable development environment, customizing Plone�s look and feel, creating new content types and forms, connecting to external databases, and managing users and groups intelligently. It also shows how to configure a production-ready server, with LDAP authentication and caching. More details about the book can be found at: http://www.packtpub.com/P rofessional-Plone-web-app lications-CMS/book

CherryPy is a Python library for web development that allows developers to build web applications in the same way as any other object-oriented Python program. Enriched by several years of active development, it has become one of the most established toolkits for building solid and high-performance web applications in Python. What you will learn from this book? -CherryPy installation using the tarball, egg, and subversion -The CherryPy library in depth: its design and how to use it -Using CherryPy with common Python and non-Python products -Object Relational Mapping with SQLObject, SQLAlchemy, and Dejavu -Web Services via REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol -AJAX and client-side scripting via MochiKit Unit, functional, and load testing -CherryPy, Apache, and lighttpd deployment solutions.

Learning Python is an introduction to the increasingly popular Python programming language -- an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and portable scripting language. This book thoroughly introduces the elements of Python: types, operators, statements, functions, modules, and exceptions. It also demonstrates how to perform common programming tasks and write real applications.

Python Programming on Win32 is the first book to demonstrate how to use it as a serious Windows development and administration tool. Unlike scripting on Unix, Windows scripting involves integrating a number of components, such as COM or the various mail and database APIs, with the Win32 programming interface. While experienced Windows C++ programmers can find their way through the various objects, most people need some guidance, and this book is it. It addresses all the basic technologies for common integration tasks on Windows, explaining both the Windows issues and the Python code you need to glue things together. Topics covered: Python programming quick-start, Windows Python basics, Python support for COM/DCOM, the Pythonwin editor, Office 2000 scripting, Windows NT administration and system programming, Python MFC programming, and Active Scripting.

The goal of the Python Essential Reference is to concisely describe the Python programming language and its large library of standard modules, collectively known as the Python programming "environment." This informal language reference is arranged into four major parts: a brief tutorial, an introduction to Python; an informal language reference that covers lexical conventions, functions, statements, control flow, datatypes, classes, and execution models; the Python library; and the Python C API used to write Python extensions.