Simon Willison’s Weblog

Protovis. JavaScript graphing library based on canvas, with an elegant chaining style API.

# 8:43 am / canvas, graphs, javascript, protovis, visualisation

Browsing my browsing. Roo Reynolds used the MeeTimer Firefox extension to gather statistics on his browsing habits, then extracted data directly from the SQLite database and generated his own graphs using PHP and the canvas element.

# 8:48 am / canvas, firefox, javascript, meetimer, php, rooreynolds, sqlite

Scaling Django web apps on Apache. Cool to see this kind of article cropping up on IBM developerWorks, but it’s a shame they don’t mention mod_wsgi.

# 9:23 am / apache, django, ibm, modwsgi, python

Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2. “At OpenX we recently completed a large-scale deployment of one of our server farms to Amazon EC2. Here are some lessons learned from that experience.”

# 9:43 am / amazon, amazonec2, ec2, griggheorghiu, openx, scaling

Digg Search: Now With 99.987% Less Suck. Really nice implementation of faceted search, still using Lucene and Solr under the hood.

# 10:17 pm / digg, facets, full-text-search, lucene, search, solr