stuff is cool

Two great tastes that taste great together: one of the few TV shows I watch, Lost, and my web framework of choice, Django.

Jeff Croft has put together a site, Lost Theories to allow folks to add/rate/comment on theories regarding Lost. And, to make things even better he’s distributing the source code to it. He says he borrowed a lot from the Zyons folks, and that’s actually the app I was looking at as well when trying to figure out some auth issues (see a few posts ago). However this site seems to use user authentication and authorization more like my site needs to, so hopefully his stuff will have stripped out some of the stuff that was confusing me. I haven’t taken a look yet because I was just so happy to have read this that I immediately came to post about it

Also, if anyone wants an example of just how kickass a Django-powered website can be, check out Jeff Croft’s blog (link above). I’m actually not a huge fan of the front page layout (too much stuff at the bottom), but everything else is very nice. The “live search” at the top is incredible - try it out by starting to type stuff in the search box and watch as results appear before your eyes.