Simon Willison’s Weblog

Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Search. Eric Holscher shows how Haystack uses a number of common Django patterns (object registration, pluggable backends, QuerySet-style chaining and class-based views) to great effect in creating a powerful search application for Django. Makes me wonder if more of those patterns should be promoted to first class concepts within Django. 3rd November 2009, 10:42 am

Collection: Search Patterns. Peter Morville’s enormous collection of screenshots of search engine interfaces. 30th July 2009, 12:35 pm

Wikipatterns. Great idea this: a wiki documenting patterns for successfully growing your own wiki. 17th February 2007, 12:51 am