Simon Willison’s Weblog

Google Gears DB Abstractions. Here come the ORMs.

# 8:54 am / db, google, google-gears, javascript, orm

JavaScript Minifier that doesn’t break code (via) Perl re-implementation of Douglas Crockford’s classic JSMin that doesn’t clobber IE’s conditional comments, by Peter Michaux.

# 5:44 pm / conditionalcomments, douglas-crockford, ie, internet-explorer, james-bennett, javascript, jsmin, perl, pete-michaux

jsjuicer. Another conditional comment respecting minifier tool, this time in C++. Ships with a command line utility, unlike JavaScript::Minifier.

# 5:57 pm / adrian-johnston, cplusplus, javascript, jsjuicer, jsmin, minification

Oxford Geek Night 3 now on the 25th July. The date has been moved back by a week.

# 9:49 pm / events, oxford-geek-nights, oxfordgeeks

ITA Software Trip Planner. Super nerdy flight booking search site, operated by the company that provides software to everyone else in the industry.

# 10:14 pm / flights, itasoftware, travel