social

A photo bookmarking social site

• Uses Django for routing and templating
• Uses JS and AJAX to like pictures, follow posters and have activity stream
• Incorporates a bookmarklet that can be deployed on any non-SSL secure site
• Social authentication using Twitter and Github
• Use of Redis and Django ORM for ranking pictures

To do

• Tidy up some of the display
• Title should be gained from the alt-text tag

What have I learnt?

• More experience using AJAX and incorporating JS into templates
• More advanced use of the ORM
• How to use social authentication
• How to write a JS bookmarklet
• Setting up activity stream
• Setting up follower system
• Use of Django thumbnail application
• Use of Redis server as a key value store
• Redis structure and syntax