Simon Willison blogs at http://simon.incutio.com/ 
20/01/2008 @ 20:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Timber hazard after ship wrecked - Timber hazard after ship wrecked. A ship went down off the Dorset coast, but its cargo of timber has been washing up all the way along Brighton beach.
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20/01/2008 @ 11:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Dangers of remote Javascript - Dangers of remote Javascript. Perl.com got hit by a JavaScript porn redirect when the domain of one of their advertisers expired and was bought by a porn company. Nat Torkington suggests keeping track of the expiration dates on any third party domains t
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19/01/2008 @ 14:00 UTC
Simon Willison : django-evserver - django-evserver. Marek Majkowski got Comet working with Django using a custom WSGI server that wraps libevent using ctypes.
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19/01/2008 @ 11:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Yahoo! OpenIDs are the same for all RPs - Yahoo! OpenIDs are the same for all RPs. I had assumed that Yahoo! would be using directed identity to provide a different OpenID for each user/site combination, to prevent correlation of accounts. I was incorrect; they’re just using it for easier sig
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19/01/2008 @ 11:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Yahoo! supporting OpenID 2.0 but not 1.1 - Yahoo! supporting OpenID 2.0 but not 1.1. Yahoo!’s Allen Tom outlines the reasons Yahoo! are supporting OpenID 2.0 but not OpenID 1.1.
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19/01/2008 @ 09:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Full Page Zoom Is For Sissies - Full Page Zoom Is For Sissies. Ryan points out that sizing everything in ems, while neat, imposes a pretty hefty maintenance cost and is rapidly becoming unnecessary thanks to the page zoom feature in IE 7, Opera and Firefox 3.0.
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19/01/2008 @ 09:00 UTC
Andy Baio : Flickr's new places.find API method - pretty rad, allows for free-text searching of their entire place name database
Simon Willison : Flickr Place IDs - Flickr Place IDs. flickr.places.find, flickr.places.resolvePlaceURL and flickr.places.resolvePlaceID combine to provide a really useful, lightweight not-quite-a-geocoder API. It’s a shame you can’t search for places by providing a latitude/longitude
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19/01/2008 @ 01:00 UTC
Simon Willison : FixMySpine - FixMySpine. JP muses over what would happen if huge government IT contracts were handed to small, agile teams like MySociety instead of gargantuan IT consultancies. I’ve often wondered the same thing.
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18/01/2008 @ 17:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Django Developer Jobs - Django Developer Jobs. Just an observation: the Django job market is booming at the moment, with 16 new job ads posted so far this year (that’s nearly one a day). If you want to be paid money to develop in Django there’s never been a better time.
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18/01/2008 @ 07:01 UTC
jcgregorio : Blogger in Draft: New feature: Blogger as OpenID provider - blogger is now an openid provider
Simon Willison : New feature: Blogger as OpenID provider - New feature: Blogger as OpenID provider. You can now enable your Blogger blog as an OpenID. [via]
factoryjoe : Blogger in Draft: New feature: Blogger as OpenID provider - Blogger adds OpenID support to Blogger in Draft! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: openid, blogger
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17/01/2008 @ 20:00 UTC
Simon Willison : .aspx considered harmful - .aspx considered harmful. Jon Udell: “I guess I’m extra-sensitive to the .aspx thing now that I work for Microsoft, because I know that to folks outside the Microsoft ecosystem it screams: We don’t get the web.�—he goes on to mention that smar
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17/01/2008 @ 18:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Automate firing of onload events - Automate firing of onload events. Paul Irish suggests setting up your site’s onload handlers in a single external JavaScript file then executing different handlers depending on the body element’s id attribute.
deusx : Glibness — Automate firing of onload events - "I’ve often had to set up onload events that execute for only a single page. ... The below solution keeps things unobtrusive."
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17/01/2008 @ 18:00 UTC
Simon Willison : 8 More Design Mistakes with Account Sign-in - 8 More Design Mistakes with Account Sign-in. Second of a two part series by Jared Spool. I agree with all of them with the possible exception of #15 which advocates providing a non-email password recovery solution. Security “questions� are usually d [via]
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17/01/2008 @ 16:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID - Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID. Here’s the official press release: “Yahoo! Support Triples Number of OpenID Accounts to 368 million�. Directed identity gets a mention; it’s going to be enabled for www.yahoo.com and www.flickr.com. The publi
factoryjoe : Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID; Users Able to Access Multiple Internet Sites with Their Yahoo! ID: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance - Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID; Users Able to Access Multiple Internet Sites with Their Yahoo! ID. - SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yahoo! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: openid, pressrelease, yahoo
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17/01/2008 @ 16:00 UTC
Simon Willison : openid.yahoo.com - openid.yahoo.com. Yahoo!’s human readable guide to OpenID, complete with tour. It looks like they’re relying on the “sign-in seal� to protect against phishing.
deusx : Yahoo! meets OpenID - "Log in to web sites with your Yahoo! account"
Rod Begbie : Yahoo! OpenID - Yahoo embraces OpenID, acting as a identity provider for now, and promising consumption to come. Unfortunately, it uses the new OpenID 2.0 spec, so I don't know of a single site where you can use it yet, but hey! It's a start. #
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16/01/2008 @ 23:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Flickr: The Commons - Flickr: The Commons. Exciting pilot collaboration with the Library of Congress to release images with “no known copyright restrictions�. The header photo (of a bench) is one of my favourite spots in the world, in Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco.
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16/01/2008 @ 23:00 UTC
Simon Willison : .first() and .last() methods for jQuery - .first() and .last() methods for jQuery. I got fed up of expecting these to exist, so I wrote them as a couple of one-liner plugins.
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16/01/2008 @ 23:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Django snippets: "for" template tag with support for "else" if array is empty - Django snippets: “for� template tag with support for “else� if array is empty. A neat solution to a common pattern; I’d personally like to see this included in Django proper.
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Simon Willison : MacHeist Bundle - MacHeist Bundle. Everything’s now unlocked, meaning you can pick up TaskPaper, CSSEdit, Snapz Pro X (excellent for screencasts) and Pixelmator for $49.
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16/01/2008 @ 15:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Sun To Acquire MySQL - Sun To Acquire MySQL. Sun also employ Josh Berkus, one of the lead developers of PostgreSQL.
nelson : MySQL AB: $1 billion - Amazing purchase price, but would you want to be bought by Sun?
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15/01/2008 @ 10:00 UTC
Simon Willison : jQuery 1.2.2: 2nd Birthday Present - jQuery 1.2.2: 2nd Birthday Present. The API stays the same, but there are some healthy speed improvements, a new way of adding custom events and (most importantly) .ready() now waits for the CSS to be ready in addition to the DOM.
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15/01/2008 @ 00:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Weebl and Bob do CSI - Weebl and Bob do CSI. Superb. [via]
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15/01/2008 @ 00:00 UTC
Simon Willison : A little something I've been working on - A little something I’ve been working on. Paul Bissex has been working on a Django book with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun, to be published by Prentice Hall. It sounds like they’re a good way along the process.
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14/01/2008 @ 15:00 UTC
Simon Willison : Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline - Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline. It’s not every day you see a piece of code you wrote compared to a Ford Pinto :)
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14/01/2008 @ 07:00 UTC
deusx : twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter - "twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter"
Simon Willison : twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter - twauth: simple mobile openid using twitter. Brilliant proof of concept by Ian McKellar: an OpenID provider that authenticates you by sending you a Twitter direct message. [via]
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