Simon Willison’s Weblog

Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages (via) Great for unicode testing.

# 11:14 am / language, malcolmtredinnick, unicode

hAccessibility. The use of the abbr element in hCalendar causes screen readers to read out an incomprehensible number instead of a date.

# 1:07 pm / accessibility, hcalendar, microformats

XTech 2007 Registration. Deadline for online registrations is 2nd May. It looks like it’ll be a really good conference this year (disclaimer: I’m speaking).

# 4:05 pm / speaking, xtech, xtech2007

I finally get REST. Wow. “The essence of REST is to make the states of the protocol explicit and addressible by URIs.”

# 4:17 pm / rest

Capacity Planning for LAMP (via) John Allspaw’s MySQL Conf 2007 talk on capacity planning (John is Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr).

# 8:41 pm / capacityplanning, flickr, john-allspaw, mysql, scaling