Simon Willison’s Weblog

SpyMedia launches photo bounties and a widget—stillborn in MySpace. The MySpace economy: share-cropping in action.

# 31st July 2006, 8:45 pm

Afghanistan 2006—a photoset on Flickr. Ben Hammersley is in Afghanistan.

# 31st July 2006, 3:24 pm / ben-hammersley, flickr

about making things (via) Matt Webb on thinking through making.

# 31st July 2006, 3:09 pm / matt-webb

kr.hub.yahoo.com has the cutest mascot. It’s a tag!

# 31st July 2006, 10:51 am

Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional. Christian’s book is out. I wrote the foreword.

# 31st July 2006, 10:43 am

Thinking XML: Good advice for creating XML (via) Uche Ogbuji’s commentary on the Bozo HOWTO.

# 31st July 2006, 9:29 am / xml

HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML. Excellent advice, particularly around character encoding.

# 31st July 2006, 9:25 am / xml

A virus for Windows Vista? Wrong. (via) No Monad in Vista. That was the only feature left that I was interested in.

# 31st July 2006, 8:59 am

Sam Ruby: REXML on Expat. Sam does something frighteningly clever with continuations.

# 30th July 2006, 9:59 pm / sam-ruby

Ezboard gets it wrong again. I had no idea ezboard was written in Smalltalk.

# 30th July 2006, 4:42 pm

Destructuring Assignment with Javascript 1.7. Another useful idiom from Python makes it in to JavaScript.

# 29th July 2006, 9:45 am

Watching Beirut die (via) A powerful first-hand report from a US film-maker in the wrong place at the wrong time.

# 29th July 2006, 9:37 am

SVG and XHTML: Like oil and water. Getting the two to mix takes a lot more effort than you might think.

# 29th July 2006, 8:50 am / svg, xhtml

I want my OpenID! Open ID code bounties worth $5,000. Could this kickstart adoption?

# 28th July 2006, 4:02 pm / bounty, openid, open-source

Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Thank your sysadmin now!

# 28th July 2006, 11:19 am

FRC: Flash-based Rounded Corner. It was only a matter of time...

# 28th July 2006, 8:59 am

ClickTale. Using Ajax to “spy” on user mouse movements was inevitable.

# 28th July 2006, 8:52 am

DevjaVu—Free, Simple Hosted Trac and Source Control. Currently in pravite beta. One to watch.

# 28th July 2006, 8:51 am

Chat rooms could face expulsion—ZDNet. Danah was right about DOPA. This thing’s a catastrophe.

# 28th July 2006, 8:49 am

Greasemonkey 0.6.5—2.0 support and localization. First release in nearly 8 months. Great to see it’s still ticking over.

# 28th July 2006, 8:47 am / greasemonkey, l10n

Django-powered sites as a mosaic. Nice piece of webkit2png hackery from Jacob.

# 28th July 2006, 1:13 am

upcoming-python-api—Google Code. My Upcoming API library, used to test out Google Project Hosting.

# 28th July 2006, 1:05 am

WPHP. Run PHP under your Python WSGI app. Not nearly as crazy as it sounds.

# 27th July 2006, 11:01 pm / php, python, wsgi

restobook. Python Series 60 + del.icio.us + phone address book = restaurant fun.

# 27th July 2006, 10:59 pm / delicious

Enumerating JavaScript Objects. More smart stuff from Dean Edwards.

# 27th July 2006, 2:15 pm

Yahoo! Developer Network: The New Multi-Lingual SDK. YDN has an API library for Lua now.

# 27th July 2006, 11:11 am

Flickr API + JSON + MochiKit + Django. Short and sweet.

# 26th July 2006, 6:12 pm / django, flickr, json, mochikit

The Wireless Universal Resource File (via) One XML file, information about many wireless devices.

# 26th July 2006, 5:26 pm

Ask Later # 1. It rocked. Can’t wait for the next one.

# 26th July 2006, 3:10 pm

NewsForge | Day one at OSCON. Includes a write-up of Jacob’s Django tutorial.

# 26th July 2006, 3:04 pm