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Saturday, 10th February 2007

No boys allowed. Ask MetaFilter on how to build the perfect fort.

# 4:29 pm / ask-metafilter, forts

Blanket Fort. xkcd on why you still want one.

# 4:30 pm / forts, funny, xkcd

OpenID (and TypeKey) using native OpenSSL functions in PHP. Wez Furlong shows how a small patch to PHP’s OpenSSL support makes it a whole lot easier to perform the cryptography behind OpenID (at the moment you need to use the bc or gmp modules).

# 10:49 pm / openid, openssl, php, wez-furlong

LiveBus.org (via) Brilliant Google Maps mashup in a similar vein to Chicago Crime—displays screen-scraped bus timetable information for Oxfordshire and Surrey in a far more useful format.

# 10:56 pm / chicagocrime, google-maps, james-wheare, livebus, maps, mashup, oxford

About LiveBus.org. I love sites with a colophon. LiveBus.org is powered by Django.

# 10:57 pm / colophon, django, livebus

Speaking at the Future of Web Apps

Just a quick update to say that I’ll be speaking at the Future of Web Apps conference in London on February the 21st, talking about OpenID. I really enjoyed last year’s event and feel honored to be included in such an exciting schedule.

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