Simon Willison’s Weblog

Implementing Full Text Indexing with PostgreSQL (via) TSearch2 tutorial.

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Position This! CSS Positioning Demystified. Molly’s latest.

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Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages (via) Redefining scripting languages to reflect their wider appeal.

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Firefox spoof demonstration (via) Scary spoofing attack using XUL.

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This Year’s Document Object Model. Jeremy Keith says that the DOM is the new CSS.

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BBC begins open-source streaming challenge (via) Hopefully this means video on the web will suck less.

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Jon Udell: Pub/sub, tags, and human filters. Maybe del.icio.us style labels scale better than I thought.

# 5:34 pm / jon-udell, delicious

8 quick ways to fix your search engine. Suggesting the correct spelling of search terms is a good idea.

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Python Cookbook : spell checking. And here’s how to do it (“ispell -a” worked for me).

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6. Writing programs to use Aspell. Full documentation of Aspell’s pipe based API.

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Job Vacancy: Web Developer (in Bristol). An opportunity for a recent graduate.

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Amendment No. 7 to Form S-1 (via) aka the Google Playboy interview, made public by the SEC.

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