Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Universal Design Pattern. Steve Yegge presents a small book on key/value pairs and prototypal inheritance. “I call it the Universal design pattern because it is (by far) the best known solution to the problem of designing open-ended systems, which in turn translates to long-lived systems.”

# 11:13 pm / keyvaluepairs, programming, prototypes, steve-yegge

Beanstalkd / Python Basic Tutorial. How to get up and running quickly with my favourite light-weight queue server. If only it had persistence...

# 11:40 pm / beanstalkd, message-queues, parand-tony-darugar, python

lns (via) “a friendly program for making symbolic links”—it’s ln -s but it does the right thing no matter what order you put the arguments in. Love it.

# 11:42 pm / commandline, ln, lns, seanmburke, unix

From Scandinavia with Love. Finnish security company F-Secure conduct testing of wireless cell phone viruses in a walk-in Faraday cage.

# 11:47 pm / faradaycage, fsecure, ivankrstic, security