Simon Willison’s Weblog

YUI 2.3.0. New components are a rich text editor, dojo-style package loader, lazy ImageLoader, colour picker and unit test framework. Easier skinning as well. 8:20 am

Java’s Fear of Commitment (via) How Java culture emphasises interfaces and layers of abstraction over solving problems directly. 10:32 am

Net::SSH revisited (via) Dependency injection (at least in Ruby) officially isn’t cool any more. 10:42 am

Django, iCal and vObject. Easy iCal generation for Django using vObject. 11:09 am

stomp.py. A Python client library for accessing ActiveMQ using the STOMP protocol. Pleasantly simple API for both sending and accepting messages. 1:50 pm