Simon Willison’s Weblog

django-sphinx (via) More code from Curse Gaming; this time a really nice API for adding Sphinx full-text search to a Django model. 9th September 2007, 12:35 am

wikimarkup (via) “MediaWiki markup in Python”. I’ve always suspected that MediaWiki was like Perl; the only thing that can parse MediaWiki is MediaWiki. Not sure how faithful this Python port is but I’d love my theory to be proved wrong. 9th September 2007, 12:33 am

Rapid development serving 500,000 pages/hour (via) Curse Gaming are getting impressive performance out of Django. 24th May 2007, 4:11 pm