Simon Willison’s Weblog

XTech 2007 Registration. Deadline for online registrations is 2nd May. It looks like it’ll be a really good conference this year (disclaimer: I’m speaking).

# 4:05 pm / xtech, speaking, xtech2007

I finally get REST. Wow. “The essence of REST is to make the states of the protocol explicit and addressible by URIs.”

# 4:17 pm / rest

Capacity Planning for LAMP (via) John Allspaw’s MySQL Conf 2007 talk on capacity planning (John is Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr).

# 8:41 pm / john-allspaw, mysql, scaling, capacityplanning, flickr

Dojo 0.9 Update. Big changes are under way in the Dojo camp.

# 8:18 pm / dojo, javascript, libraries, alex-russell

phpbb-openid first beta. A fully functional OpenID consumer for phpBB 2.0, implemented as a set of patches.

# 8:27 pm / phpbb, php, openid

A brief unofficial history about register_globals in PHP. It’s been more than five years since register_globals was disabled by default in PHP 4.2.0.

# 8:20 am / php, history, registerglobals, philip-olson

Timing and Synchronization in JavaScript. Comprehensive overview of how browsers (Opera in particular) load scripts and queue events, with suggestions for best practices.

# 2:24 pm / opera, javascript, timing, browsers

Dev.Opera article index. Should be of interest to all client-side web developers.

# 2:26 pm / web-development, opera