Simon Willison’s Weblog

phpsh. An interactive shell for PHP, developed at Facebook and written mostly in Python. Facebook are really pushing their open-source stuff at the moment.

# 9:43 am / php, facebook, python, phpsh

Ekranoplan! Crazy awesome Soviet “ground effect” vehicle, visible in dry dock on Google Maps.

# 10:04 am / google-maps, bill-humphries, soviet, ekranoplans

Lawrence Journal-World Marketplace (via) While other newspapers complain about competition from the internet, my former employer is embracing it. This is why local newspapers still matter.

# 10:15 am / ljworld, lawrence, marketplace, jeff-croft

Ext JS. Jack Slocum is building a business around his excellent Ext JavaScript library (which can now run on top of YUI, jQuery or Prototype). The library itself is LGPL, but you can pay for a commercial license and support.

# 10:11 pm / jack-slocum, javascript, yui, yuiext, jquery, prototype

mail rail on Flickr (via) Photos of the Royal Mail’s private underground railway, sadly closed in 2003.

# 11:02 pm / royalmail, flickr

Mass Video Conversion Using AWS. How to use S3, SQS, EC2, ffmpeg and some Python to bulk convert videos with Amazon Web Services.

# 11:44 pm / aws, amazon, python, s3, sqs, ec2, ffmpeg