Friday, 9th February 2007
The OpenID Directory. A new directory of OpenID consumers and providers. If they can make sure that the listed sites actually let you log in this could become a really valuable resource.
12:19 am
First Oxford Geek Night a success! It really was the best evening geek event I’ve been to in a very long time.
12:51 am
Add OpenSearch to your site in five minutes. OpenSearch is easy. DeWitt demonstrates how you don’t even need a site search engine to implement it if you take advantage of Google’s site: operator.
12:52 am
Mono 1.2.3 has been released (via) More importantly, it ships with IronPython in the form of Seo Sanghyeon’s Community Edition.
12:55 am
.php? .cgi? .who-cares? J-P Stacey argues that “URLs need to be hackable by the developer as well as by the user”. There’s certainly room for improvement in keeping complex URL structures maintainable from a server-side developer’s perspective.
1:01 am
The Psychology of Security. I haven’t even started on this yet, but I bet it’s worth reading.
1:27 am
Parallel Python. A simple mechanism for running Python code in parallel across multiple processes and/or machines, based on submitting jobs and retrieving their results.
1:51 am
Hanselminutes Podcast on OpenID. Good podcast discussion on OpenID, from a .NET developer’s perspective.
9:19 am
Sumo! A Generic Microformats Parser For JavaScript. Dan Webb’s BarCamp talk on Metaprogramming JavaScript will be a must-see.
10:57 am