Blogger Template Designer is Now Available

I just noticed a template designer has been released for Blogger. Check out this post for more information. As I grew tired of the old theme, I decided to try out something different this time. :)

Book Review - Django 1.2 E-commerce

Disclaimer: I received a review copy of this book from the publisher, Packt Publishing.

This time I will take a look at Django 1.2 E-commerce by Jesse Legg. It's his first book so congratulations for that! I haven't dabbled a lot with e-commerce before so I expected to pick a new trick or two from the book. I was particularly interested to see how to handle transactions, pricing and such. I think the book managed to reach my expectations, to some extent. At least I have some material to refer to should I need to build an e-shop or so.

The main thing that bugged me about the book was the quality, or the lack of, editing. There were numerous little errors, particularly in the code examples, that made the experience a bit tedious. Companion code provided was split per chapter as usual. I'm not sure if I agree with the approach, however. It's easier for me to dive into code and read it as a whole than to piece it together before doing that. Perhaps they ought to provide both final and "bit by bit" version of the application built.