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.

Django 1.2 planned features. The votes are in and the plan for Django 1.2 has taken shape—features are split in to high, medium and low priority. There’s some really exciting stuff in there—outside of the things I’ve already talked about, I’m particularly excited about multidb, Model.objects.raw(SQL), the smarter {% if %} tag ...