Simon Willison’s Weblog

Saying goodbye to Visual Basic (for Mac Office). Fascinating detailed insight from a Microsoft MacBU developer.

# 11th August 2006, 5:12 pm

MySQL: Get total number of rows when using LIMIT (via) Useful tip.

# 11th August 2006, 4:22 pm / mysql

List of songs performed on the show—zefrank. I often use these to illustrate points at work.

# 11th August 2006, 3:47 pm

Django URL dispatcher: Passing callable objects instead of strings. I’m really excited about this change.

# 11th August 2006, 8:56 am

zefrank: don’t be afraid. Terrorists levarage our inability to understand risk.

# 10th August 2006, 11:11 pm

Hot PHP UTF-8 tips. Always good to have.

# 10th August 2006, 7:32 pm / php

Rails 1.1.6, backports, and full disclosure. Fixes a left over problem from 1.1.5.

# 10th August 2006, 7:20 pm / rails

upcalendar. Aaron’s Python S60 app for syncing Upcoming with your phone.

# 10th August 2006, 5:36 pm

Release: Unobtrusive Javascript For Rails 0.2. RJS kind of sucks. This looks like it doesn’t.

# 10th August 2006, 4:30 pm / rails

Schneier on Security: New Airline Security Rules. “I’m sure glad I’m not flying anywhere this week” says Bruce. Now I wish I wasn’t!

# 10th August 2006, 4:26 pm / airlines, bruce-schneier, security

On the total nondisclosure of the 8/9/06 [Rails] security vulnerability. The best argument I’ve seen in favour of full disclosure.

# 10th August 2006, 2:53 pm / rails, security

The Python Developer Center got Slashdotted. And this comment made me smile.

# 9th August 2006, 10:18 pm

Rails 1.1.5: Mandatory security patch. Upgrade now, and spread the word.

# 9th August 2006, 8:55 pm / rails, security

O’Reilly Radar: The Value of Web Standards. “... we’re finally getting rewards for standards-compliance ...”

# 9th August 2006, 1:42 pm

New Media Hack on YDN Python Center. Recommends pycurl—I have to admit I hadn’t looked at that.

# 8th August 2006, 11:29 pm

Gina Ford vs the Web. “I’ll sue you! I’ll sue you in England!”

# 8th August 2006, 10:21 pm

Mark Shuttleworth: Jono Bacon steps up. Jono is the new community manager for Ubuntu. Awesome.

# 8th August 2006, 9:35 pm

Unicode strings to ASCII ...nicely. Uses unicodedata.normalize to filter out accents.

# 8th August 2006, 9:13 pm

YDN Python Developer Center. Launched today: tips and tutorials on accessing Yahoo! Web services from Python.

# 8th August 2006, 8:57 pm / python, yahoo, ydn

Using the Python for Series 60 Bluetooth Console from OS X. Not entirely straight forward.

# 8th August 2006, 5:32 pm

ModelViewController.mp3 (warning: singing). It’s the Model View Controller song!

# 8th August 2006, 11:04 am

Darwin Calendar Server. Apple’s open source CalDAV server is written in Python.

# 8th August 2006, 8:25 am

Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Impressive!

# 7th August 2006, 10:52 pm / rails

Apple Server page. The markup/CSS is lovely—a Wilson Miner special.

# 7th August 2006, 8:06 pm

New edition of the Rhino book goes to the printers. The examples from the book are available online now.

# 7th August 2006, 11:54 am

Bayeux. Comet might just make Java relevant for web development again.

# 7th August 2006, 11:51 am / alex-russell, bayeux, comet, java

Introduction to Subversion Screencast. If you aren’t using source control yet, here’s your chance to catch up.

# 5th August 2006, 4:59 pm / screencast, subversion

Changelog for Opera 9.01 for Macintosh. Fixes a bunch of little things that had been irritating me.

# 5th August 2006, 3:38 pm

Drew joins Yahoo! We’re running out of UK standards-focused developers to hire...

# 5th August 2006, 1:58 pm

[brothercake] Dynamic 3D with CSS and the DOM. 3D dungeon layouts built using the CSS polygon border trick.

# 5th August 2006, 12:16 pm