Simon Willison’s Weblog

Google Maps API gets clickable polylines and polygons. Interesting explanation of how they optimised calculating the distance to the nearest point on a polyline.

# 12:58 pm / algorithms, googelmaps, google, javascript, polygons, polylines

Advanced Django. Slides from my hour long tutorial at PyCon UK this morning. Most of the material was adapted from OSCON, but I also added a new section covering newforms.

# 1 pm / django, newforms, pyconuk, pyconuk2007, python, slides, slideshare, talks, tutorial