http://simonwillison.net/2008-07-25T01:11:08ZSimon Willison2008-07-25T01:11:08Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/25/danny/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2008/07/23/your-guilt-at-work/#comments">Your guilt at work</a>. If ten people sign up for a tenner-a-month ORG membership and send their confirmation code to Danny O’Brien, he’ll put out a special one-off issue of NTK!</p> </div>

2008-07-24T18:14:06Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/24/silverback/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://clagnut.com/blog/2165/">Silverback has launched!</a>. Clearleft’s “guerilla usability” software for OS X Tiger and Leopard—specialist screencasting software optimised for conducting usability tests.</p> </div>

2008-07-24T17:40:02Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/24/openwebfoundation/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://openwebfoundation.org/">The Open Web Foundation</a>. Launched today at OSCON, an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to incubating and protecting new specifications like OAuth and oEmbed. The focus is incubation, licensing, copyright and community.</p> </div>

2008-07-24T00:47:58Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/24/dojango/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://blog.uxebu.com/2008/07/23/dojango-version-03-released/">Dojango version 0.3 released</a>. A reusable Django application that provides Dojo, helper functions (dojo.data integration) and tools for switching between Dojo versions.</p> </div>

2008-07-23T18:14:38Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/23/xmpp/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="https://stpeter.im/?p=2228">Quick OAuth Notes</a>. Yesterday’s XMPP Summit resulted in a proposed standard for using OAuth to authenticate XMPP streams.</p> </div>

2008-07-23T16:25:51Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/23/sitepen/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/07/22/windowname-transport/">window.name Transport</a>. The cleverest use of the window.name messaging hack I’ve seen yet: Dojo now has dojox.io.windowName.send for safe, performant cross-domain messaging.</p> </div>

2008-07-23T16:17:30Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/23/dopplr/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://blog.dopplr.com/2008/07/23/how-dopplr-learns/">How Dopplr learns</a>. Dopplr uses global and personal trip histories to disambiguate place names, and your friends’ schedules to help disambiguate dates in airline confirmation emails.</p> </div>

2008-07-23T09:28:15Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/23/springer/

<div class="quote segment"><blockquote cite="http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/7eb5cd51a9fa0ac4"><p>(It’s probably just me, but every time I stumble upon some thread involving people from the so-called “security community”, it’s like watching a Jerry Springer episode.)</p></blockquote><p class="cite"> - <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/7eb5cd51a9fa0ac4">Fredrik Lundh</a></p> </div>

2008-07-23T00:30:50Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/23/drizzle/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://krow.livejournal.com/602409.html">Drizzle, Clouds, “What If?”</a>. Exciting news in the world of MySQL: Drizzle is a new project to produce a massively stripped down version of the database server—InnoDB/UTF8 only, no permissions, views, stored procedures or triggers, simplified field types, optimised for the common subset of functionality used by web apps. MySQL’s Firefox?</p> </div>

2008-07-22T19:30:53Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/22/email/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://blog.vidoop.com/archives/139">Email Address to URL Transformation (EAUT) specification now available!</a>. Allows OpenID users to login using their E-mail address, which is converted in to an OpenID URL based on rules specified in an XRDS document attached to the root domain. Seems like a good idea to me.</p> </div>

2008-07-22T18:48:37Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/22/drinkup/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://oscon.pdxpython.org/">Python BoF and Django Drinkup</a> (<a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/918773/" title="Upcoming">via</a>). At OSCON? Come along to the Jax Bar tonight (Tuesday 22nd) from 7pm to 10pm to hang out with fellow Pythoneers and Djangonaughts.</p> </div>

2008-07-22T17:18:16Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/22/loose/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://lethain.com/entry/2008/jul/22/replacing-django-s-template-language-with-jinja2/">Replacing Django’s Template Language With Jinja2</a>. Part of Wil Larson’s series on taking advantage of Django’s loose coupling.</p> </div>

2008-07-22T07:12:18Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/22/comicvinecom/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://www.comicvine.com/">ComicVine.com</a>. Also powered by Django, Whiskey Media’s comic book encyclopedia and community. 43,000 characters and 94,000 issues and counting.</p> </div>

2008-07-22T07:09:28Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/22/giantbomb/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://www.giantbomb.com/">GiantBomb.com</a>. Launched today, powered by Django—a combination of (mostly ex-Gamespot) quality editorial content and a massive structured wiki of every computer game ever released. This is going to be a lot of fun—all of the crazy detailed content that Wikipedia tends to reject.</p> </div>

2008-07-22T06:04:29Zhttp://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/22/alpha/

<div class="blogmark segment"><p><a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/release_notes_1.0_alpha/">Django 1.0 alpha release notes</a>. The big features are newforms-admin, unicode everywhere, the queryset-refactor ORM improvements and auto-escaping in templates.</p> </div>