Simon Willison’s Weblog

Crowd 1.1.0 Release Notes. Atlassian software are now offering a commercial OpenID provider, with the ability to hook in to an existing LDAP directory and some smart whitelist / blacklist options.

# 8:29 am / atlassian, openid, crowd, ldap, whitelisting, blacklisting

Django-fr. Community site for French language Django developers. They’ve already made a promising start on translating the documentation.

# 10:50 am / django, france, french, translation, documentation

Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days. Absolutely incredible feat of software engineering by Miguel de Icaza and the Moonlight team.

# 11:10 am / moonlight, migueldeicaza, silverlight, mono, open-source

The Sarcastic Gamer: MS Surface. “Your next computer will be a big-ass table.”

# 11:42 am / surface, microsoft, funny

Yet another one more thing... a new Web Inspector! I installed the latest nightly but I couldn’t find the inspector (or work out how to turn on the debug menu). Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

# 11:49 am / webkit, safari

RESTify DayTrader. Killer REST case study from Joe Gregorio.

# 1:44 pm / rest, joe-gregorio, daytrader

The State of Proxy Caching. If you’ve always wondered exactly what intermediate proxies are going to do to your carefully constructed Web application, here’s your answer.

# 2:18 pm / mark-nottingham, proxies, caching, http