A small update on django-completion May 01, 2011 01:10 / 1 comments

Just a quick heads-up to anyone out there using django-completion, I've released a couple important updates this weekend and you may be interested in updating your checkouts. These changes are purely additive, so don't worry about having to update your own code.

There are three important updates:

1. Bug: the (experimental) Redis backend could fail to return results under certain conditions and, if data were removed frequently, leak memory all over the place
2. Bug: partial titles generated for the Redis and Database backends were too restrictive, i.e. "testing python code" would not complete on "python" unless the AUTOCOMPLETE_MAX_WORDS setting was 2 (or 1)
3. Feature: it is now possible to restrict suggestions to certain models by passing in a list of acceptable models to the suggest() method

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Autocompletion for Django models using Solr, Redis or SQL December 30, 2010 18:08 / 2 comments

One of the nicest UI's around when dealing with a large dataset is a good autocomplete. Facebook's search is a great example, same for Netflix, and recently Google launched "Google Instant", which returns search results as you type. Autocomplete can really complement hierarchical drill-down search (which is useful for discovery), as the goal of autocomplete is more for helping users find something they already know about with a minimum of effort.

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