Simon Willison’s Weblog

It’s hopeless. Another terrible open source installation process. Learn from Firefox!

# 8th June 2006, 6:20 pm

Develop for the Web with Django and Python. Django tutorial on IBM developerWorks.

# 6th June 2006, 6:50 pm

Django tips: extending the User model. James Bennett’s excellent series on Django continues.

# 6th June 2006, 11:15 am

The programmer as journalist. An interview with Adrian Holovaty.

# 6th June 2006, 10:51 am / adrian-holovaty

Tech-Savvy MPs Come Out Against DRM. Promising news from the Open Rights Group.

# 5th June 2006, 1:24 pm

Using rsync to enable the project drawer in textmate while working on a remote server. Looks like a useful trick.

# 3rd June 2006, 1:23 pm

Costumes for Guinea Pigs (via) Warning: so cute it might make you ill.

# 1st June 2006, 9:40 pm

Global Domination. Doug Crockford: Global variables are evil.

# 1st June 2006, 9:15 pm

June 6th Is JavaScript ’Array’ and ’Object.prototype’ Awareness Day. Follow these rules and life will be a bit more pleasant for all of us.

# 1st June 2006, 9:04 pm

uBrowser. Gecko rendering on a 3D surface. Developed for Second Life.

# 1st June 2006, 10:20 am

ENIAC simulation (via) The first American computer, simulated by a Java applet.

# 1st June 2006, 10:15 am

Faster DOM Queries. Dean’s IE-specific getElementsBySelector optimisation is evil genius.

# 31st May 2006, 9:53 am

Feedjack. A Django Python Powered Feed Aggregator.

# 31st May 2006, 9:50 am

Video: Joe Hewitt Talks About FireBug. Demo / tutorial.

# 31st May 2006, 8:17 am / firebug, video, yahoo

Photographing Squirrels—a photoset on Flickr. Real wild squirrels with real vintage cameras. Awesome.

# 30th May 2006, 11:13 am / flickr, squirrels

Executing JavaScript on page load (updated). I’ve updated the code to fix a problem in IE 7.

# 28th May 2006, 12:29 pm

Own your data: ad-hoc representations. Includes interesting notes about Tabblo’s implementation.

# 28th May 2006, 11:41 am

Travel-time Maps and their Uses. Fascinating concept, beautiful maps.

# 26th May 2006, 7:22 pm

IE DOMInspector. Recommended at the London JavaScript night. $69 though.

# 26th May 2006, 4:55 pm

davidbau.com: Haaarg, world! (via) Really sweet story of teaching a 6 year old Python.

# 25th May 2006, 11:35 pm

15 Days Of jQuery. 15 days of tutorials for one of the more quirky JS libraries.

# 24th May 2006, 7:47 pm

Using TinyMCE in Django’s admin. Using the js admin argument.

# 24th May 2006, 6:48 pm / django-admin

Room 641A. Interesting back-of-an-envelope analysis of the NSA domestic spying scandal.

# 24th May 2006, 6:36 pm

Most Monitors Won’t Play New HD Video. DRM strikes again.

# 24th May 2006, 9:03 am

Sahi. Neat proxy/JavaScript based web app testing tool.

# 23rd May 2006, 2:09 pm

hCalendar in Endo. Nice screencast of a Microformat consuming feed reader.

# 23rd May 2006, 1:57 pm

Planet XTech: Aggregated coverage of XTech 2006. Simple but very effective conference coverage mashup.

# 17th May 2006, 2:11 pm

Google Web Toolkit is NOT open source. “The GWT Java-to-JavaScript compiler and hosted web browser are shipped binary-only.”

# 17th May 2006, 8:46 am

Google Web Toolkit—Build AJAX apps in the Java language (via) Write Java that “compiles” to JavaScript and HTML. Weird.

# 17th May 2006, 7:25 am

Are you generic? More Django for designers, this time from Wilson Miner.

# 15th May 2006, 2:26 pm