Simon Willison’s Weblog

OAuth Core 1.0. The final spec. Expect to see this crop up all over the place in the next few months.

# 3:39 am / apis, authentication, oauth

xkcd: Python. Just type “import antigravity”.

# 6:09 am / antigravity, flying, funny, python, xkcd

Call for Participation for XTech 2008. XTech 2008 will be in Dublin, Ireland from the 6th to the 9th of May. Lots of really interesting topics in the CfP (OpenID, OAuth, Comet, CouchDB...)—deadline for submissions is the 25th of January.

# 3:28 pm / cfp, comet, conferences, couchdb, oauth, openid, xtech

Django Basic Apps. Nathan Borror has released a suite of simple, reusable Django applications: Basic Blog, Basic Places, Basic People, Basic Library and Basic Profiles.

# 3:30 pm / django, nathan-borror, python

YUI 2.4.0 released. Lots of great new features, but the one I’m most excited about is Selector: YUI finally has a CSS query engine.

# 3:32 pm / css, javascript, libraries, selector, yahoo, yui

OpenID 2.0 Final(ly)! Launched at the Internet Identity Workshop. The most interesting feature is probably directed identity, which goes a long way to solving some of the usability issues involved in users having to enter their own URLs.

# 9:01 pm / directedidentity, iiw, openid, openid2