Simon Willison’s Weblog

Never store passwords in a database! The reddit.com developers just learnt this the hard way. It might be time to change some of your passwords.

# 12:01 am / reddit, security

Fast and Simple Usability Testing. Nat’s 24ways article on practical usability testing (and hedgehogs).

# 12:20 am / usability, natalie-downe, hedgehogs

An open letter to Mike Arrington. Former co-editor Mike Butcher’s take on the demise of TechCrunch UK. “Citizen Kane 2.0”.

# 12:19 pm / techcrunch, blogging, mike-butcher, mike-arrington, techcrunchuk

Google Code gets wikis and file downloads. Someone finally wrote a project wiki that stores its pages inside the Subversion repository.

# 12:35 pm / google, google-code, subversion, wiki

SubWiki (via) A wiki that uses Subversion for its data repository, implemented as a Python CGI.

# 7:19 pm / python, subversion, wiki

YUI CSS Grid builder (via) The YUI CSS grid system can be hard to get your head around. This interactive tool makes it much easier to figure out.

# 10:30 pm / yui, javascript, css

RoundedCornr. Generates code for rounded corner boxes (with optional graded fills—very Web 2.0). Slightly different way of nesting divs to the way I’ve used in the past.

# 11:49 pm / css, roundedcorners, gradients