In this book, we went through the process of building a social bookmarking application from the ground up using Django as our framework. We covered lot of topics related to Web 2.0 and social applications, as well as many Django components. Although the tutorial is finished, there are some Django elements that weren't discussed in the book. This chapter serves as an overview of those elements. It gives only a brief introduction and does not go into the details; but you can always refer to Django's online documentation if you want to learn more about a particular feature or component. The idea behind this chapter is to tell you what is available so that you know what aspect to research if you need to implement a feature that isn't covered in the book.
In this chapter, you will learn about the following Django features:
Custom template tags and filters
Model managers and custom SQL
Generic views
Some components from the Django standard library
The following are the Web 2.0...