Simon Willison’s Weblog

Running Your Rails App Headless. Pretty sweet new feature of Rails 1.1.

# 6th April 2006, 8:40 pm

Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta. Virtualization for OS X.

# 6th April 2006, 2:24 pm

Boot Camp. Official dual-boot Windows solution for Intel Macs—downloadable beta!

# 5th April 2006, 2:23 pm

JavaScript apps with read/write access to S3. JS apps hosted on S3 could read and write to the store.

# 4th April 2006, 9:33 am / aws, javascript, s3

gotoAndLearn.com. Impressive collection of Flash tutorial screencasts.

# 3rd April 2006, 6:06 pm

Code Elegance, Code Balance. A nice way of thinking about writing maintainable code.

# 3rd April 2006, 11:12 am

YouTube—danah on O’Reilly Factor. There’s something you don’t see every day.

# 3rd April 2006, 10:59 am

Xara (vector graphics programme) goes Open Source. This could be a really big deal.

# 29th March 2006, 10:56 am

Hex Fiend. Hex editor for OS X. I could have done with this a few weeks ago.

# 28th March 2006, 10:11 pm

Blown away (again) by Hack Day. Hack Day rocks.

# 27th March 2006, 2:29 pm

Styles: Beyond WS and REST. Tim clarifies a bunch of stuff relating to WS-* and REST.

# 27th March 2006, 10:06 am

favcol (via) Hammond-powered Flickr fun.

# 22nd March 2006, 7:07 pm / flickr

Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3. 25 lines of Python.

# 22nd March 2006, 6:53 pm / amazon, aws, flickr, matt-croydon, python, s3

BitBucket—Experimenting with Amazon S3 Service in Python (via) Nice pythonic API.

# 22nd March 2006, 6:05 pm / amazon, aws, python, s3

Amazon S3. Game changing.

# 22nd March 2006, 5:59 pm / amazon, aws, s3

Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? Great essay from danah. MySpace finally makes a bit of sense to me.

# 22nd March 2006, 7:55 am

Form Hijack (via) Neat unobtrusive JavaScript trick—use document.onclick to catch events before page has loaded.

# 21st March 2006, 10:43 am / forms, javascript

Atom as a Case Study. Notes from one of my favourite talks at ETech.

# 21st March 2006, 8:20 am

Lighty Rocks My PHP/MySQL World. Matt Croyden reports that Lighty + PHP + FastCGI is lightning fast.

# 20th March 2006, 7:31 pm

Activating ActiveX Controls (via) MS advice on getting around the Eolas thing. Their JS code is nasty though.

# 20th March 2006, 11:49 am

Checkmates (via) Really neat Yahoo! mobile demo released at ETech.

# 9th March 2006, 1:09 am

Universal Encoding Detector. Character encoding auto-detection in Python, ported from Mozilla.

# 8th March 2006, 7:56 am

Forget addEvent, use Yahoo!’s Event Utility. Great explanation of the cool stuff in YAHOO.util.Event.

# 8th March 2006, 12:08 am

Introduction to JavaScript (ETech 2006 Tutorial). Phil Windley’s extensive notes from my tutorial.

# 7th March 2006, 11:18 pm

Yahoo! Hub Korea. Korean tag clouds are really pretty.

# 3rd March 2006, 12:10 am

Campfire Bot. Campfire + Greasemonkey = Bot. How long until there’s a Google Talk one of these?

# 26th February 2006, 6:18 am / greasemonkey

Django Templates: The Power of Inheritance. Really good overview of one of my favourite Django features.

# 26th February 2006, 5:58 am

Comic Sans—Wikipedia. The Comic Sans euro symbol has a little face.

# 22nd February 2006, 11:54 am / wikipedia

JavaScript slideshow fun. Nat’s built a slideshow with permalinks for images.

# 22nd February 2006, 11:08 am

Painless JavaScript Using Prototype. The missing manual, by Dan Webb.

# 22nd February 2006, 8:53 am / dan-webb, javascript, prototype-js