Simon Willison’s Weblog

Is Facebook Really Censoring Search When It Suits Them? Apparently MoveOn’s group “Petition: Facebook, stop invading my privacy!” stopped showing up in search results for “privacy”—the search claimed 17 results but suspiciously only showed 16.

# 7:50 am / facebook, censorship, conspiracy, moveon, privacy

Django Evolution. Really smart take on the problem of updating database tables to reflect changes to Django models. Code that automatically modifies your database tables can be pretty scary, but Evolution seems to hit the right balance.

# 11:49 pm / djangoevolution, django, orm, databases, schema, migration

Subversion WebDAV Autoversioning. Set up a WebDAV share that automatically versions any file saved to it. I had no idea Subversion could do this out of the box.

# 11:50 pm / subversion, webdav, autoversioning, svn, version-control, vcs

Newforms, part 1. James Bennett provides a detailed description of Django’s newforms (not so new now though, they’ve been around for over a year), complete with attractive diagrams.

# 11:54 pm / james-bennett, newforms, django, python

Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You. Brian Suda explains how OpenID, XFN and hCard can be used together to bootstrap portable social networks.

# 11:56 pm / hcard, brian-suda, microformats, openid, xfn, portablesocialnetworks