Simon Willison’s Weblog

MySpace: Too Much of a Good Thing? CSS customization really was just the result of forgetting to strip HTML. They “eventually” decided to filter out JavaScript(!)

# 9:09 am / myspace, css, javascript, xss, security

Inside MySpace.com. Case study of scaling against a network effect. Includes pretty honest coverage of the mistakes made along the way, although the article was put together second hand from conference presentations rather than from interviews.

# 9:18 am / myspace, scaling

Mono-based device wins Best-of-Show at CES. “The Sansa Connect is running Linux as its operating system, and the whole application stack is built on Mono, running on an ARM processor.”

# 11:21 pm / mono, linux, hardware, ces, open-source

FIPA Abstract Architecture. Bill de hÓra shows how the work of the Intelligent Agents community relates to SOA / WS-*. We studied FIPA at University and the parallels to parts of the Web Service stack are pretty interesting.

# 11:32 pm / soa, bill-de-hora, fipa, ai-agents