Simon Willison’s Weblog

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

Django now available in Tamil. The work was done by a 14 -person team at a translation workshop.

# 25th July 2006, 5:25 pm

The Daily WTF—Studying at WTF University. Wow. Just wow.

# 25th July 2006, 2:33 pm

Geek in the Park, 27th August. Looks like good fun—unfortunately I’m away that weekend.

# 25th July 2006, 1:50 pm

JavaScript Browser detect 2.0. For when object detection isn’t enough. Use with care.

# 25th July 2006, 11:59 am

Techa Kucha Night. Tonight. I’m doing one on Functional Programming and JavaScript.

# 25th July 2006, 11:50 am

httplib2.py. Joe Gregorio’s better HTTP library for Python.

# 25th July 2006, 11:49 am

The Anti-Web 2.0. Gina Trapani questions the wisdom of only saving your data to the cloud.

# 25th July 2006, 11:49 am

Python API for Akismet. My hand-rolled spam prevention works pretty well, but I might give this a try.

# 25th July 2006, 11:47 am

Unit testing asynchronous JavaScript. A better testing API for JavaScript.

# 25th July 2006, 11:46 am

XML-RPC servers using Django. Another advantage of the simple Request/Response model.

# 23rd July 2006, 9:15 pm / django, xml-rpc

Spry Data Set and Dynamic Region Overview. This looks surprisingly clever and well designed.

# 20th July 2006, 2:40 pm

Spry framework for Ajax. Another take on declarative Ajax, this time from Adobe.

# 20th July 2006, 2:29 pm

Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music. The fact that it’s an MP3 should cause waves.

# 20th July 2006, 1:22 am

Web App Follies: Keep Sites Running Smoothly By Avoiding These 10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls. Holy cow, ASP.NET is complicated.

# 19th July 2006, 5:08 pm

AOL Retention Manual Revealed—37 signals take note. That’s why AOL developed, “Keep It Real”...a set of principles that will drive a world-class Member experience...

# 19th July 2006, 8:01 am / 37signals

Paying the top DIGG/REDDIT/Flickr/Newsvine users (or “$1,000 a month for doing what you’re already doing.”). Jason Calacanis stirs things up again. Why work for free?

# 19th July 2006, 7:53 am

Must Ignore vs. Microformats (via) Interesting perspective from Elliotte Rusty Harold.

# 19th July 2006, 7:52 am