Simon Willison’s Weblog

Web hosting landscape and mod_wsgi. Graham Dumpleton explains how mod_wsgi’s daemon mode should provide secure Python deployment for commodity hosting providers.

# 3:47 pm / grahamdumpleton, hosting, modwsgi, python, wsgi

jQuery Taconite Plugin. Lets you serialize jQuery DOM manipulation commands as an XML document for retrieval via Ajax.

# 6:29 pm / ajax, javascript, jquery, plugins, taconite

Gmail and Django. I’d never considered using Gmail to send e-mail from applications, but it could be a useful way of avoiding having outbound e-mail falsely flagged as spam.

# 9:46 pm / django, email, gmail, nathan-ostgard