Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Government Says. New from My Society: collected government press releases.

# 27th June 2006, 2:47 pm

Essentials, 2006 edition. 2006 must be the year of Linux on the desktop!

# 26th June 2006, 9:07 pm

How to use Django with FastCGI. The best FastCGI documentation I’ve seen for any platform.

# 26th June 2006, 8:26 pm

Reuse-in-the-large is an unsolved problem: Why I left OpenACS for Rails. Fascinating insight in to the reason frameworks that do less do more.

# 26th June 2006, 2:55 pm

punupgeek.com on Active Resource. Looks like 37 signals might be looking in to scaling across multiple servers using web services.

# 26th June 2006, 11:12 am / 37-signals, activeresource, rails, scaling

Choosing your CSS techniques. For the record, I favour redundant markup over CSS hacks.

# 23rd June 2006, 1:03 pm

JavaScript Gotchas. Another example of why ID indexing was a dumb idea.

# 23rd June 2006, 10:12 am

Django on Windows HOWTO. Fantastically detailed instructions.

# 22nd June 2006, 10:26 pm

Mac OS X Hacking Tools. Useful tools built in to the OS.

# 22nd June 2006, 7:13 pm

Star Wars Transformers Deluxe Millennium Falcon. Nerdgasm.

# 22nd June 2006, 11:33 am

Star Wars Transformers. Consensus on whether these are Awesome or A Bit Wrong has yet to be formed.

# 22nd June 2006, 11:32 am

A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes. Case study plus source code.

# 22nd June 2006, 10:55 am

Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle. 100 lines of Python illustrating some key concepts in AI.

# 22nd June 2006, 10:46 am / peter-norvig, python, ai

Cerealizer (via) A safe pickle for Python.

# 20th June 2006, 11:49 pm

Interoperability and DRM are Mutually Exclusive. A beautiful indictment of the insanity of DRM interoperability.

# 20th June 2006, 8:28 pm

I’m on the Oxfam website! Fourth back on the left.

# 20th June 2006, 10:39 am

Labour’s World Cup 2006 blog with Alastair Campbell (via) .

# 20th June 2006, 10:32 am

Django and JSON. Neat trick to serialize Djange QuerySets as JSON.

# 20th June 2006, 8:16 am / django, json

Office 2007 is the Bravest Upgrade Ever. Anil Dash likes the ribbon. It’s definitely one heck of a risky move.

# 20th June 2006, 8:11 am / anil-dash

43F Podcast: The Perfect Apostrophe (via) The cautionary tale of Life Hacks.

# 17th June 2006, 11:17 am

Javascript Libraries—Friend or Foe? Paul’s notes from yesterday’s panel at @media.

# 17th June 2006, 11:14 am

How Django processes a request. Detailed in-depth explanation from James Bennett.

# 14th June 2006, 9:22 am

django—signals. A writeup of the under-documented signals support in Django M-R.

# 14th June 2006, 9:13 am

Web application framework stacks. Interesting comparison of Django and J2EE, based on the size of their respective call stacks.

# 13th June 2006, 9:30 pm

A few thoughts on journalism. I was nodding my head the whole way through.

# 13th June 2006, 9:22 pm

SQL for Web Nerds. Focuses on Oracle.

# 13th June 2006, 6:56 pm

Yahoo! Maps? You Don’t Have to Ask. (via) They’ve lifted the commercial API restrictions.

# 13th June 2006, 7:31 am

Yahoo! Photos Beta Announcement. Scott Schiller did a lot of the really cool UI stuff.

# 9th June 2006, 9:58 am

PyX—Python graphics package (via) Neat looking PostScript / PDF generation library.

# 9th June 2006, 9:36 am

Multi-Safari. Makes testing multiple Safari versions much easier.

# 9th June 2006, 9:34 am