Node.js is genuinely exciting
2009-11-23 12:50:22
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I gave a talk on Friday at Full Frontal, a new one day JavaScript conference in my home town of Brighton. I ended up throwing away my intended topic (JSONP, APIs and cross-domain security) three days before the...
Django ponies: Proposals for Django 1.2
2009-09-28 23:32:04
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I've decided to step up my involvement in Django development in the run-up to Django 1.2, so I'm currently going through several years worth of accumulated pony requests figuring out which ones are worth advoca...
Why I like Redis
2009-10-22 10:58:21
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I've been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently.
Redis is typically categorised as yet another of those new-fangled NoSQL key/value stores, but if you look closer it actually has some pretty un...
This shouldn't be the image of Hack Day
2009-10-19 22:22:34
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I love hack days. I was working in the vicinity of Chad Dickerson when he organised the first internal Yahoo! Hack Day back in 2005, and I've since participated in hack day events at Yahoo!, Global Radio and th...
Hack Day tools for non-developers
2009-07-28 14:23:53
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We're about to run our second internal hack day at the Guardian. The first was an enormous amount of fun and the second one looks set to be even more productive.
There's only one rule at hack day: build someth...
Teaching users to be secure is a shared responsibility
2009-07-16 20:04:45
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Ryan Janssen: Why an OAuth iframe is a Great Idea.
The reason the OAuth community prefers that we open up a new window is that if you look at the URL in the window (the place you type in a site’s name), you...
Facebook Usernames and OpenID
2009-06-13 17:01:00
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Today's launch of Facebook Usernames provides an obvious and exciting opportunity for Facebook to become an OpenID provider. Facebook have clearly demonstrated their interest in becoming the key online identity...
djng - a Django powered microframework
2009-05-19 00:13:31
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djng is nearly two weeks old now, so it's about time I wrote a bit about the project.
I presented a keynote at EuroDjangoCon in Prague earlier this month entitled Django Heresies. The talk followed the noble D...
rev=canonical bookmarklet and designing shorter URLs
2009-04-11 17:37:55
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I've watched the proliferation of URL shortening services over the past year with a certain amount of dismay. I care about the health of the web and try to ensure that URLs I am responsible will last for as lon...
List of SxSW 2009 panels with "social" in the title
2009-03-14 23:02:54
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* A Hard Sell? Social Media & Your Boss
* Can Social Media End Racism?
* Digital Urbanites: How To Become Part of the New Social Capital
* The Future Of Social Networks
* How Social Networks Are Killing...