Simon Willison’s Weblog

Disambiguated URLs with Ruby on Rails. Using before_filter to remove trailing slashes and a few lines of lighttpd configuration to kill the www.

# 3:18 pm / nowww, disambiguated, urls, rubyonrails, rails, lighttpd

Django Master Class. Notes and slides from the OSCON tutorial I gave yesterday with Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Jeremy Dunck.

# 3:20 pm / oscon, jeremy-dunck, django, jacob-kaplan-moss, oscon07, speaking, tutorial, python

ActionMonkey (via) SpiderMonkey + Tamarin = ActionMonkey. New JavaScript engine for Mozilla 2, incorporating code from Adobe’s Open Source ActionScript VM.

# 3:29 pm / spidermonkey, tamarin, actionmonkey, javascript, actionscript, adobe, mozilla

Instant Django. Portable Django environment for Windows, no installation required. Can also be run from a USB thumb drive.

# 6:49 pm / instantdjango, django, usb, windows, python