Simon Willison’s Weblog

OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use! The OpenID+OAuth hybrid protocol (where a user can sign in with OpenID and grant an application access to their OAuth protected resources such as a contact list at the same time) is now supported by Google, Yahoo! and MySpace—this feels like OpenID finally coming of age.

# 9:08 pm / openid, oauth, hybrid, google, myspace, yahoo, identity

Justniffer. Packet sniffing tool that can output sniffed HTTP traffic formatted the same way as an Apache access_log file.

# 10:12 pm / justniffer, packetsniffing, networking, apache, logging

MySQL, Python and MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I gave up on compiling things when I upgraded to Snow Leopard—I’m back to running Ubuntu in a VMWare instance, mounted over Samba so I can still use TextMate.

# 10:14 pm / ubuntu, vmware, snowleopard, samba, textmate, python, mysql, osx