Simon Willison’s Weblog

Pattern Template View (via) Really nice overview of the different styles of template language.

# 21st February 2006, 9:53 pm

A pro-PHP Rant. Harry Fuecks pulls one off in style.

# 21st February 2006, 9:48 pm / php

Carson Workshops Summit Podcasts. The podcasts are up!

# 21st February 2006, 5:28 pm

UTF-8 to Code Point Array Converter in PHP (via) A useful thing to have around.

# 21st February 2006, 1:11 am

Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers. Bradley Horowitz (my boss) starts his blog with a bang.

# 18th February 2006, 9:06 pm

Developing a JavaScript Library for Yahoo! Design principles behind the recently released code.

# 18th February 2006, 1:40 pm

Videos: France Gall, Django Reinhardt and Elis Regina. Video of Django Reinhardt, after whom the Web framework is named.

# 17th February 2006, 11:50 am

Wikipedia citation feature. I don’t know when they added this but it’s really nicely done.

# 16th February 2006, 6:53 pm / wikipedia

flickr Calendar. Really nice demo of extending the Y! Calendar class.

# 16th February 2006, 12:44 pm / flickr

hacks/flickr-licens0r.html. The Yahoo! Animation library in action.

# 14th February 2006, 2:43 pm

Yahoo! UI Library. Open Source JavaScript widgets and libraries.

# 14th February 2006, 1:12 am / javascript, open-source, yahoo, yui

Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. Common UI design patterns for web applications.

# 14th February 2006, 1:12 am / design, design-patterns

Yahoo! User Interface Blog. One of three exciting new Yahoo! things today.

# 14th February 2006, 1:11 am

Subversion tips: working with branches. Django gets a mention for best practices.

# 13th February 2006, 3:20 pm / branching, django, subversion

XULRunner 1.8.0.1 Release Notes (via) First stable developer release—create cross-platform apps with XUL.

# 6th February 2006, 12:38 am

MSN UK in IE7 beta. Definitely needs some work.

# 2nd February 2006, 12:12 pm

Please Guido, pick me, pick me! This made me smile.

# 1st February 2006, 10 pm

Unicode tutorial in Spanish. I don’t speak the language but it looks great from the diagrams.

# 1st February 2006, 12:02 am

Channel9 Wiki: InternetExplorerProgrammingBugs. This page is a gold mine.

# 31st January 2006, 12:28 pm

PHP Conference UK. In London on Feb 10th. Early bird rate is a bargain at fifty quid.

# 31st January 2006, 9:07 am / php

Yahoo! RSS Feeds. That’s a big list of RSS feeds.

# 30th January 2006, 8:51 pm

Replace callback emulation for safari. Neat fix for a particularly annoying Safari bug.

# 24th January 2006, 5:05 pm

Closures And Highly Readable Sequence Sorting Customization. Really neat usage of closures in Python.

# 24th January 2006, 12:23 am / closures

The Long Snout. O’Reilly announce their beta-book program, and get it exactly right.

# 24th January 2006, 12:20 am

Getting Funky With Scopes and Closures. Mark Wubben has some neat tricks up his sleeve.

# 23rd January 2006, 10:27 am / closures

Video Game Maps (via) Beautiful collection of maps, extracted using scripts and hard work.

# 23rd January 2006, 9:58 am

Mozilla causing XSS in Livejournal. Their recent worm attack was caused by the -moz-binding CSS property.

# 22nd January 2006, 9:37 pm / css, livejournal, mozilla, security, xss

London Underground geographic maps. Generated PNG/SVG files under the LGPL; GPS source data is available.

# 22nd January 2006, 8:32 pm

Xanga Hit By Script Worm (in December) (via) Description of an XSS worm that hit Xanga last month.

# 21st January 2006, 8:47 pm / security, worm, xanga, xss

Google Video and Privacy. Interesting analysis of Google Video’s DRM.

# 21st January 2006, 6:43 pm