Simon Willison’s Weblog

Interoperability and DRM are Mutually Exclusive. A beautiful indictment of the insanity of DRM interoperability.

# 20th June 2006, 8:28 pm

I’m on the Oxfam website! Fourth back on the left.

# 20th June 2006, 10:39 am

Labour’s World Cup 2006 blog with Alastair Campbell (via) .

# 20th June 2006, 10:32 am

Django and JSON. Neat trick to serialize Djange QuerySets as JSON.

# 20th June 2006, 8:16 am / django, json

Office 2007 is the Bravest Upgrade Ever. Anil Dash likes the ribbon. It’s definitely one heck of a risky move.

# 20th June 2006, 8:11 am / anil-dash

43F Podcast: The Perfect Apostrophe (via) The cautionary tale of Life Hacks.

# 17th June 2006, 11:17 am

Javascript Libraries—Friend or Foe? Paul’s notes from yesterday’s panel at @media.

# 17th June 2006, 11:14 am

How Django processes a request. Detailed in-depth explanation from James Bennett.

# 14th June 2006, 9:22 am

django—signals. A writeup of the under-documented signals support in Django M-R.

# 14th June 2006, 9:13 am

Web application framework stacks. Interesting comparison of Django and J2EE, based on the size of their respective call stacks.

# 13th June 2006, 9:30 pm

A few thoughts on journalism. I was nodding my head the whole way through.

# 13th June 2006, 9:22 pm

SQL for Web Nerds. Focuses on Oracle.

# 13th June 2006, 6:56 pm

Yahoo! Maps? You Don’t Have to Ask. (via) They’ve lifted the commercial API restrictions.

# 13th June 2006, 7:31 am

Yahoo! Photos Beta Announcement. Scott Schiller did a lot of the really cool UI stuff.

# 9th June 2006, 9:58 am

PyX—Python graphics package (via) Neat looking PostScript / PDF generation library.

# 9th June 2006, 9:36 am

Multi-Safari. Makes testing multiple Safari versions much easier.

# 9th June 2006, 9:34 am / safari

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