just finished with django + jquery datatables. used these resources. Need to put all of them together in one place. but still its not that hard with current ones.
http://www.datatables.net/usage/server-side
demo app - https://www.assembla.com/spaces/datatables_demo/wiki
datatables + bootstrap 2 goes hand in hand too :-) http://datatables.net/blog/Twitter_Bootstrap_2