Simon Willison’s Weblog

django-mptt (via) Jonathan Buchanan’s simple utility for performing Modified Preorder Tree Traversal (efficient tree operations in SQL) on Django models.

# 11:33 am / django, djangoorm, jonathan-buchanan, models, modifiedpreordertreetraversal, mptt, python, sql

Hacky holidays on OS X. Jeremy Keith documents how to get PHP 5 and Apache 2 virtual hosts running on Leopard.

# 11:49 am / apache, apache2, jeremy-keith, leopard, osx, php, php5, virtualhosts

Sam Ruby: Ruby 1.9 Strings—Updated. A follow up to yesterday’s post: Sam’s principle complaints about Ruby 1.9’s character encoding support were down to a bug which has now been fixed.

# 7:34 pm / ruby19, sam-ruby, unicode