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 / google, hybrid, identity, myspace, oauth, openid, yahoo

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

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

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 / mysql, osx, python, samba, snowleopard, textmate, ubuntu, vmware