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 / django, python, orm, search, sphinx-search, cursegaming, david-cramer, full-text-search

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 / python, cursegaming, david-cramer, mediawiki, perl, wiki, wikimarkup

Rapid development serving 500,000 pages/hour (via) Curse Gaming are getting impressive performance out of Django.

# 24th May 2007, 4:11 pm / django, scaling, performance, cursegaming, curse