Simon Willison’s Weblog

Photographing Squirrels—a photoset on Flickr. Real wild squirrels with real vintage cameras. Awesome.

# 30th May 2006, 11:13 am / flickr, squirrels

Executing JavaScript on page load (updated). I’ve updated the code to fix a problem in IE 7.

# 28th May 2006, 12:29 pm

Own your data: ad-hoc representations. Includes interesting notes about Tabblo’s implementation.

# 28th May 2006, 11:41 am

Travel-time Maps and their Uses. Fascinating concept, beautiful maps.

# 26th May 2006, 7:22 pm

IE DOMInspector. Recommended at the London JavaScript night. $69 though.

# 26th May 2006, 4:55 pm

davidbau.com: Haaarg, world! (via) Really sweet story of teaching a 6 year old Python.

# 25th May 2006, 11:35 pm

15 Days Of jQuery. 15 days of tutorials for one of the more quirky JS libraries.

# 24th May 2006, 7:47 pm

Using TinyMCE in Django’s admin. Using the js admin argument.

# 24th May 2006, 6:48 pm / django-admin

Room 641A. Interesting back-of-an-envelope analysis of the NSA domestic spying scandal.

# 24th May 2006, 6:36 pm

Most Monitors Won’t Play New HD Video. DRM strikes again.

# 24th May 2006, 9:03 am

Sahi. Neat proxy/JavaScript based web app testing tool.

# 23rd May 2006, 2:09 pm

hCalendar in Endo. Nice screencast of a Microformat consuming feed reader.

# 23rd May 2006, 1:57 pm

Planet XTech: Aggregated coverage of XTech 2006. Simple but very effective conference coverage mashup.

# 17th May 2006, 2:11 pm

Google Web Toolkit is NOT open source. “The GWT Java-to-JavaScript compiler and hosted web browser are shipped binary-only.”

# 17th May 2006, 8:46 am

Google Web Toolkit—Build AJAX apps in the Java language (via) Write Java that “compiles” to JavaScript and HTML. Weird.

# 17th May 2006, 7:25 am

Are you generic? More Django for designers, this time from Wilson Miner.

# 15th May 2006, 2:26 pm

Python Templates. It’s surprising how much work you can get done building on Python’s string interpolation.

# 15th May 2006, 2:25 pm

JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web. Brendan Eich at The Ajax Experience.

# 14th May 2006, 8:21 pm

“Lock The Vault? What Kind Of Maniac Would Steal Money From A Bank?”. Voting machine company rep rules out possibility of corrupt election officials.

# 14th May 2006, 7:44 am

Microsummaries in Firefox 2. Neat new feature: short summaries of pages extracted using XSLT.

# 13th May 2006, 10:18 am / firefox, xslt

__halt_compiler()—how nuts? There are good reasons for it to exist. I still think it’s nuts though.

# 12th May 2006, 12:43 am

Build Your Own Website the Right Way Using HTML and CSS. Ian Lloyd’s book. Sounds perfect for beginners.

# 11th May 2006, 11:40 pm

mnot: Vendor-pires (via) WS-* vendors and vampires.

# 11th May 2006, 3:45 pm / mark-nottingham

PHP: __halt_compiler(). This is nuts.

# 10th May 2006, 5:28 pm / php

AutoComplete, Windowing, Menu and More: A Second Beta Release for the YUI Library. More design patterns, more widgets, new CSS stuff, lots of improvements overall.

# 10th May 2006, 9:33 am

Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS. This stuff is absolutely brilliant.

# 10th May 2006, 8 am

Base32. Express large numbers in a neater form; good for URL transmission.

# 9th May 2006, 1:58 pm

Rewind. Alex Russell quits Jot to work on Dojo full time.

# 9th May 2006, 7:40 am / alex-russell, dojo, jotspot

Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry. Unsurprisingly, hosting “review” sites are just after the referrals.

# 5th May 2006, 5:28 pm

A step-by-step SQLAlchemy tutorial (via) Looks like a superb piece of software.

# 5th May 2006, 2:53 pm