I started programming (in BASIC, Pascal, and COBOL) before the Web was available, and it’s amazing to see how much the craft has changed with instant access to thousands of references. However, sometimes I throw up a search and get back the perfect solution, and I’m frustrated that I couldn’t figure out something so simple. It’s just too easy to search instead of think.
My example today is an easy search in Django. I have read about Haystack, Solr, and other search engines that require a daemon, special database structures, and other special things, but these are overkill for a search on a relatively small dataset.
My search returned this post from Toast Driven that outlined a way to append together a few Q objects to return a search result that uses multiple terms and multiple fields. Genius!
Thanks to Daniel at Toast Driven.