Simon Willison’s Weblog

SlideShare: Webapps scalability. Lots of great presentations on scaling, from Twitter, Digg, Vox, LiveJournal, Last.fm and more.

# 12:53 am / digg, lastfm, livejournal, scaling, sixapart, slideshare, twitter, vox

Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone (via) Apple’s iPhone developer documentation.

# 1:58 am / apple, iphone, michal-migurski

PyMOTW: subprocess. Better documentation for the swiss army knife of process control tools.

# 10:18 am / doug-hellmann, python, subprocess

Django changeset 5609. “Merged Unicode branch into trunk. This should be fully backwards compatible for all practical purposes.”

# 2:22 pm / django, malcolmtredinnick, unicode

Unicode data in Django. Documentation for Django’s new unicode support.

# 2:24 pm / django, unicode

UnicodeBranch: Porting Applications. A checklist for porting Django applications to handle the new unicode changes. If your application only handles ASCII text at the moment you shouldn’t have to change a thing.

# 2:41 pm / ascii, django, porting, unicode

welovelocal.com. Nicely designed new local business review site, London only but going UK wide soon. OpenID enabled!

# 8:24 pm / local, london, openid, welovelocal

AND donate entire Netherlands to OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap just got a whole lot bigger.

# 8:26 pm / and, netherlands, openstreetmap, steve-coast