django-reviews - Generic ratings and review application for django projects

django-reviews - A generic review application for Django projects, which allows association of a number of reviews with any Model instance and makes retrieval of reviews simple.

I dug around the django space and couldn’t find a generic review application that would allow users to add a review (including ratings) to an entity. So, I decided [...]

Twitter clone in Django

Want to incorporate Twitter like functionality in your existing Django application? Check out Trillr.

Trillr is a microblogging application like Twitter. They have recently made their code open source.

Django - Login with email or username

This snippet allows you to login with either username or email in your Django applications. All you have to do is add the middleware and combine it in the authentication backends.

Django meets Solr - django-solr-search

Last month, I wrote about various options on providing search in Django based applications. Kudos to Sean at screely.com for finishing the conversion of Django Solr module to Django 1.0. This adds one more to the list, and perhaps replacing the django lucene module. You can find the code, and other related links on the [...]

Providing Search in Django based applications

I have seen many Django based applications that do not provide intuitive and powerful search capabilities to their users. If you pickup a product created in django and try to do a search, you will be disappointed by the fact that the search is so primitive. No spelling correction, no fuzzy searching, no complex multi-field [...]

Scriptify your Django deployments using Fabric

Anyone who has worked on a decent size product where Django is serving as the web front, understands how monotonous the update / deployment procedure gets. Especially, when you have more than a couple of servers serving your user base. And if you are one of the companies who have embraced the cloud computing platform [...]