Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Elements of JavaScript Style. Douglas Crockford illustrates better coding practises through refactoring of old code.

# 8:22 am / douglas-crockford, javascript, refactoring, yahoo

Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video. I can’t decide if this is better or worse than the Windows 386 rap.

# 10:10 am / funny, microsoft, msdos, windows, youtube

Restructured Text to Anything. Slick set of online tools for converting Restructured Text (one of the more mature wiki-style markup languages) to HTML or PDF. Includes a nice looking API. Powered by Django.

# 3:54 pm / django, html, pdf, python, restructuredtext

Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata. Last.fm have started using audio fingerprints to help clean up misspelled artists and duplicate track information.

# 5:46 pm / audio, audiofingerprinting, lastfm, metadata, mp3

An Introduction to Erlang. Erlang gets the ONLamp tutorial treatment from Gregory Brown.

# 5:47 pm / erlang, gregorybrown, onlamp, programming