Simon Willison’s Weblog

del.icio.us/tag/flickr. del.icio.us shows Flickr thumbnails—not sure when that was added.

# 28th April 2006, 11 am / delicious, flickr

Sam Kass’s Quartz Composer Hacks (via) These are fantastic.

# 27th April 2006, 11:40 am

Quartz Composer iSight Prank. See yourself on a web page.

# 27th April 2006, 11:33 am

The Spread Toolkit. The memcached of messaging services.

# 27th April 2006, 11:31 am

London JavaScript Night. 25th of May. I’m talking about JavaScript libraries.

# 27th April 2006, 12:14 am

Gruff Graphs for Ruby. A lot prettier than the pink screenshot would have you believe.

# 26th April 2006, 5:44 pm

PlotKit—Javascript Chart Plotting. Uses SVG or canvas, with canvas emulation for IE.

# 26th April 2006, 5:40 pm

BBC Programme Catalogue. It finally launched! Congrats, Matt.

# 26th April 2006, 4:36 pm

Webstemmer. HTML layout analyzer that figures out the structure of a site. Very, very clever.

# 24th April 2006, 8:05 pm

An S3 AJAX Wiki. Les continues to innovate against S3.

# 22nd April 2006, 7:09 pm / ajax, aws, javascript, les-orchard, s3, wiki

Last Day [paulhammond.org]. Paul’s leaving the beeb.

# 21st April 2006, 8:49 am

Yahoo! Maps, Your Way. Includes significant (and exciting) enhancements to the Ajax API.

# 20th April 2006, 5:26 am

Vitamin. Lovely new web design magazine site from Ryan Carson and friends.

# 18th April 2006, 2:18 pm

A List Apart: A More Accessible Map. Nice example of semantic markup, unobtrusive JavaScript and CSS.

# 18th April 2006, 2:15 pm

London 2.0 RC 5, Wednesday May 3rd. Last one was a ton of fun, with some great demos.

# 18th April 2006, 2:10 pm

selector—WSGI Delegation. Neat URL dispatching system, similar to Django’s.

# 17th April 2006, 12:13 pm / wsgi

XTech 2006: Ajax lightning demos. Show off your Ajax at XTech.

# 17th April 2006, 1:53 am

Giant squid on display at the Natural History Museum. Awesome. It’s 9 metres long!

# 15th April 2006, 12:01 am

InnoCentive Biology Challenges. Rent-a-coder style marketplace for scientists.

# 12th April 2006, 1:26 pm

Yahoo! Geocoding API response for Gdansk, Poland. International geocoding, baby!

# 12th April 2006, 12:48 pm

Some details about Ookles. Photo transforms defined by URLs, Flickr API compatibility and more.

# 12th April 2006, 11:11 am / flickr

Yahoo! Maps Web Services updated. Now include satellite images and lo-res international maps.

# 12th April 2006, 7:31 am

Yahoo Maps Satellite and Global coverage. Lo-res global satellite photos and basic road features.

# 12th April 2006, 7:28 am

Content-Type is dead. Ouch. Even messier than non-well-formed RSS.

# 12th April 2006, 12:56 am

Introducing SqlSoup. Lovely simple DB abstraction layer built on the excellent SQLAlchemy.

# 11th April 2006, 7:13 pm

The XMLHttpRequest Object (via) A W3C Working Draft.

# 9th April 2006, 11:58 pm

KittenAuth Test (via) Better captchas.

# 7th April 2006, 8:37 pm

How I’m using Amazon S3 to serve media files. Adrian’s saving server overhead on ChicagoCrime by serving media from S3.

# 7th April 2006, 6:51 pm / adrian-holovaty, amazon, aws, chicagocrime, s3

Windows: The New Classic. John Gruber’s delightful take on Boot Camp.

# 6th April 2006, 9:11 pm / john-gruber

Rails is the devil on your (client-side) shoulder. This is exactly why I’m not a fan of RJS.

# 6th April 2006, 8:41 pm