#simonwillison (12 links)
Two case studies of building Django applications irresponsibly on tight deadlines, and some thoughts on more sustainable ways of developing with Django.
- Hack Day tools for non-developers simonwillison.net
For our first hack day, I put together a list of “tools for non-developers”—sites, services and software that could be used for hacking without programming knowledge as a pre-requisite. Here’s the list so far.
- Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab niemanlab.org
"Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking." Brilliant.
- The point of “Open” in OpenID simonwillison.net
Open means that providers and consumers are free to use the protocol in whatever way they wish. If they want to only accept OpenID from a trusted subset of providers, they can go ahead.
"Get a handy little iPhone or iPod Touch version of any website." Genius. Makes me wish I had an iPhone.
- wikinear.com wikinear.com
wikinear.com shows Wikipedia pages near you, based on your location according to Yahoo! Fire Eagle. The site is optimised for use on a mobile phone.
- wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle simonwillison.net
- Figuring out OpenSocial simonwillison.net
So it’s out, and lots of people are talking about it, but I’m still trying to work out exactly what it is.