I’ve been asked by PACKT publishing to review a new book Grok 1.0 Web Development.
I gladly accepted their proposal. For those interested – yes, they sent me a free PDF version of the book, but I would buy the book anyway because it is about the project I love and associate myself with even though I’ve not been actively participating in it recently.
Personally I think that the release of this book is a major event for the whole Grok community. Having comprehensive documentation for people just starting with a smashing Web framework Grok is of utter importance.
What’s interesting is that I’ve been thinking about writing a book on Grok myself, but Carlos de la Guardia beat me to the punch and after skimming through the book I’m glad he did :)
What I liked instantaneously about the book is the presence of a chapter on integration with relational databases, the topic that in the Zope world was kind of obscure in the past.
When I finish reading the book I’ll post a full review so stay tuned and meanwhile you can take a sneak peak at the book by reading a freely available Chapter No 5: Forms
Posted by Ruslan Spivak 