Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Tea Cosy. Our favourite Brighton tea room has redesigned their site—truly classy. Don’t forget to memorise the etiquette rules.

# 5:14 pm / brighton, etiquette, tea, tearoom, the-tea-cosy

Clearing up inaccuracies about the Google OpenID IDP launch. Google took some undeserved flack when they launched their OpenID provider. For the record, whitelisting providers fits my definition of the “Open” in OpenID perfectly (providers and consumers are free to impose whatever policies they like).

# 11:11 pm / google, openid, whitelisting

Secrets of the Django ORM. An undocumented (and unsupported) method of poking a Django QuerySet’s internal query to add group_by and having clauses to a SQL query.

# 11:49 pm / django, groupby, having, orm, python, queryset, sql