Simon Willison’s Weblog

Cross-document messaging in Opera. Another interesting Opera feature based on WHAT WG work.

# 7:41 pm

Better Metrics for Security—Understanding the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report. Mozilla defends against yet more spurious bug count reports.

# 9:54 am / security, mozilla, symantec

No More IE6 Background Flicker. Hedger’s suggested JS fix. Not sure if I like the object detection he uses though.

# 10:47 am

Good Agile, Bad Agile. Includes interesting insight in to Google development processes.

# 3:10 pm / process, google, agile, steve-yegge

London Python Meetup, Wednesday the 4th of October. At The Stage Door in Waterloo.

# 11:10 am

geopy—Geocoding Toolbox for Python. Geocoder classes for Google, Yahoo!, Virtual Earth and more.

# 11:16 am

Introducing WSGI: Python’s Secret Web Weapon. Every Python web developer should understand WSGI.

# 2:24 pm

Utterly brilliant Vietnamese cut-out art. The more you look at them the cleverer they are.

# 4:40 pm

Yahoo! Browser-Based Authentication (via) This is a Really Big Deal. Yahoo! has over 200 million /active/ user accounts.

# 7:21 pm / yahoo, bbauth, ydn

Launching the Un-Launch-Able. Dan Theurer explains SSO as enabled by Y! BBAuth.

# 7:28 pm