Simon Willison’s Weblog

start.gotapi.com. Lightning fast lookups of API documentation; includes Python docs, YUI, HTML, CSS and lots more.

# 6:05 pm / css, docs, documentation, gotapi, html, python, yui

Unsettling. Sounds like there might be a massive scripted hack going on against out of date WordPress installs on Dreamhost. Check your site. See also discussion in the comments attached to this post.

# 9:16 pm / dave-shea, dreamhost, hosting, php, security, spam, wordpress

Semi-synchronous replication for MySQL (via) Google’s patch for MySQL which enables more reliable master-slave replication (a transaction isn’t committed until at least one slave has replicated the data).

# 10:07 pm / google, masterslave, mysql, open-source, philippearson, replication