django-subscribers

http://github.com/etianen/django-subscribers/

django-subscribers is a high-volume mailing list and newsletter manager.

  • Import and manage large mailing lists.
  • Allow users to sign up from internal and external sites.
  • Allow users to control their subscriptions and unsubscribe.
  • Send thousands of HTML newsletters a day.

It's been designed to allow high volumes of newletters to be sent out in batches to avoid overloading commodity SMTP servers.

django-optimizations

http://github.com/etianen/django-optimizations/

django-optimizations is a utility library for Django aimed at improving website performance.

  • Javascript compression and optimization.
  • CSS compression and optimization.
  • Image thumbnailing, cropping and rescaling.
  • HTTP downstream caching of static assets, including easy cache expiration.

django-watson

http://github.com/etianen/django-watson/

django-watson is a fast multi-model full-text search plugin for Django. It is easy to install and use, and provides high quality search results.

  • Search across multiple models.
  • Order results by by relevance.
  • No need to install additional third-party modules or services.
  • Fast and scaleable enough for most use cases.

  • django-watson 1.1.0 released

    Apr 2012

    django-watson 1.0 is now available on GitHub and PyPi. This release improves the efficiency of updating large search indexes and adds in Django 1.4 admin compatibility.

  • django-watson supports prefix matching

    Feb 2012

    The current trunk release of django-watson now supports prefix matching when searching. This means that partial matches of words will now return a result.

    This is particularly useful for live autocomplete style search widgets, as it allows a user to receive feedback much earlier.

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django-reversion

http://github.com/etianen/django-reversion/

django-reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities.

  • Roll back to any point in a model's history - an unlimited undo facility!
  • Recover deleted models - never lose data again!
  • Admin integration for maximum usability.
  • Group related changes into revisions that can be rolled back in a single transaction.
  • Automatically save a new version whenever your model changes using Django's flexible signalling framework.
  • Automate your revision management with easy-to-use middleware.

django-reversion can be easily added to your existing Django project with an absolute minimum of code changes.

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django-usertools

http://github.com/etianen/django-usertools/

django-usertools is a drop-in replacement for the standard Django user admin tools.

  • Invite users to join your admin system by email.
  • Better user admin UI.

Just add the app to your Django project, and you're good to go!

html5media

http://html5media.info/

  • Banner showcase

html5media makes HTML5 video and audio tags work in all major browsers. All it takes is a single line of code.

The project is distributed globally using a high-performance CDN, and receives thousands of new users per day. It has the distinction of appearing on the Reddit homepage twice since it's original launch.

  • html5media 1.1.5 released

    Nov 2011

    This release adds in a few useful API hooks to allow forcing the Flash fallback to appear on browsers that support the video tag, but have a buggy implementation. It also improves the fallback flash player to be more consistent with native players.

  • html5media 1.1.4 released

    Jul 2011

    This release adds in support for a high-performance global CDN, backed by Google App Engine. It also adds in support for low-resolution video fallbacks for mobile devices based on CSS media queries.

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moody-templates

http://github.com/etianen/moody-templates/

moody-templates is a fast and powerful template engine for Python 3.

  • Easy to use.
  • High performance.
  • Autoescaping.
  • Template inheritance.
  • Supports native python expressions.
  • Extensible template macros.

The GitHub project site contains full documentation of it's syntax, as well as some rather impressive benchmarks.