Simon Willison’s Weblog

Crowd 1.1.0 Release Notes. Atlassian software are now offering a commercial OpenID provider, with the ability to hook in to an existing LDAP directory and some smart whitelist / blacklist options.

# 8:29 am / atlassian, blacklisting, crowd, ldap, openid, whitelisting

Django-fr. Community site for French language Django developers. They’ve already made a promising start on translating the documentation.

# 10:50 am / django, documentation, france, french, translation

Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days. Absolutely incredible feat of software engineering by Miguel de Icaza and the Moonlight team.

# 11:10 am / migueldeicaza, mono, moonlight, open-source, silverlight

The Sarcastic Gamer: MS Surface. “Your next computer will be a big-ass table.”

# 11:42 am / funny, microsoft, surface

Yet another one more thing... a new Web Inspector! I installed the latest nightly but I couldn’t find the inspector (or work out how to turn on the debug menu). Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

# 11:49 am / safari, webkit

RESTify DayTrader. Killer REST case study from Joe Gregorio.

# 1:44 pm / daytrader, joe-gregorio, rest

The State of Proxy Caching. If you’ve always wondered exactly what intermediate proxies are going to do to your carefully constructed Web application, here’s your answer.

# 2:18 pm / caching, http, mark-nottingham, proxies