Simon Willison
Simon Willison is a freelance client- and server-side Web consultant and the co-creator of the Django Web framework. Simon's interests include OpenID and decentralised systems, unobtrusive JavaScript, rapid application development and RESTful Web Service APIs. Before going frelance Simon worked on Yahoo!'s Technology Development team, and prior to that at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas. Simon maintains a popular Web development weblog at http://simonwillison.net
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A quote from Robert Lofthouse
--DjangoCon 2008. Venue: Gooleplex, San Francisco Bay Area. Dates: 6th and 7th Sept. Official post will be on djangoproject.com soon. - Robert Lofthouse
ftputil
--ftputil. Python’s built-in ftplib is ridiculously low level, requiring you to send RETR commands and even assemble downloaded chunks yourself using...
Protocol Buffers: Google's Data Interchange Format
--Protocol Buffers: Google’s Data Interchange Format. Open sourced today. Highly efficient binary protocol for storing and transmitting structured da...
A quote from Matt Cutts
--Question: how do you upgrade servers when you need to pass new information between them? It’s a fool’s game to try to upgrade both servers at the s...
Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked
--Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked. “am forget my password of mac,did you give me password on new email marko.[redacted...
Opera Web Standards Curriculum
--Opera Web Standards Curriculum. Opera commissioned an impressive sequence of articles from a bunch of very talented people to help address the mons...
A quote from Me, on Twitter
--It looks like the first ever Django conference will take place in early September in the San Francisco bay area. - Me, on Twitter
Growing the ORG community
--Growing the ORG community. The Open Rights Group want a fiver a month from 750 new people to support their excellent work fighting for digital civi...
Up Ship!: New Branding
--Up Ship!: New Branding. I hadn’t realised the Airpship Ventures Zeppelin (en route to San Francisco) is going to be used for the Stella Artois Star...
A quote from Tom Lane
--Historically the project policy has been to avoid putting replication into core PostgreSQL, so as to leave room for development of competing soluti...
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