Simon Willison’s Weblog

Firebug Lite 1.2 (via) Huge upgrade to the IE/Opera/Safari bookmarklet version of Firebug—it now has DOM element inspection, XHR tracking and an interactive console, among other features.

# 9:30 am / bookmarklet, debugging, firebug, firebuglite, javascript

FLOSS Weekly 34: Django. Randal Schwartz interviewed Jacob Kaplan-Moss at OSCON for the consistently excellent FLOSS Weekly podcast.

# 9:47 am / django, flossweekly, jacob-kaplan-moss, open-source, podcasts, python, randalschwartz

Battery Statistics. Run “ioreg -w0 -l | grep Capacity” on a MacBook or MacBook Pro to find out the DesignCapacity (original) and MaxCapacity (current) of your laptop’s battery.

# 11:05 am / battery, capacity, corstencurdt, macbook, macbookpro, power

How Comet Brings Instant Messaging to meebo. “What started off as a hack appears to be fulfilling one of the most basic needs of the Web, which is live synchronous interaction”—Jian Shen

# 11:18 am / comet, javascript, jianshen, meebo

ZeroMQ. Open source message queue optimised for performance: claims 25μsec latency and 2.6 million messages per second.

# 4:57 pm / message-queues, messaging, performance, zeromq

Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008. Don’t let the newspeak put you off; this is an honest and informative description of the bug that took down S3 last Sunday, although it does include the world’s longest way of saying “we turned it off and on again”.

# 5:42 pm / amazon, newspeak, s3, uptime