Simon Willison’s Weblog

RailsConf Europe: September 14-15 in London. 500 spots, 400 quid early-bird special.

# 4th May 2006, 11:01 am

AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? James Edwards tests various DOM update notification techniques.

# 4th May 2006, 10:21 am

Master Foo’s Taxation Theory of Microformats. “Perhaps we can hide custom XML languages *inside* these standard XML languages”.

# 4th May 2006, 9:58 am

Screw YouTube (via) The backlash begins? “The people I used to know on YouTube got banned, saw their accounts set to zero or just left by themselves.”

# 4th May 2006, 12:14 am

Django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines. Jacob’s presentation at the Googleplex, on Google Video.

# 3rd May 2006, 5:32 pm

Django for non-programmers. Jeff Croft’s intro to Django.

# 3rd May 2006, 3:13 pm

Neutrality of the Net. Tim Berners-Lee on the most important issue facing the ’net today.

# 3rd May 2006, 12:13 am / net-neutrality, tim-berners-lee

EasyEclipse LAMP Edition. Eclipse pre-configured for LAMP development. Haven’t tried it myself but it looks good.

# 2nd May 2006, 2:45 pm

Django “magic-removal” branch merged. Finally! Django’s model layer is now a heck of a lot cleaner.

# 2nd May 2006, 12:46 pm

CustomEvent: onFontResize (via) Neat little hack using an iframe with width set in ems.

# 2nd May 2006, 10:26 am

Brad Neuberg introduces dojo.storage. Incredibly technically impressive, embodying months of accumulated expertise.

# 1st May 2006, 11:33 pm / brad-neuberg, dojo, dojostorage, javascript

Jeff Maurone blogs about the Times Reader (via) He’s one of the developers. Great to see them blogging; still don’t believe in the product though.

# 1st May 2006, 11:30 pm / blogging

Microsoft make a reader for the NY Times? Wuh? Interesting comment from John Dowdell attached.

# 1st May 2006, 11:29 pm

Two steps backward. Another dumb attempt at a proprietary “reader” for online newspapers.

# 1st May 2006, 11:28 pm

Shopping Search APIs on Yahoo! Tech. The new Yahoo! Tech site uses the public shopping APIs.

# 1st May 2006, 10:21 pm

Change Safari’s default search engine—revisited (via) Good Lord, you have to edit the Safari executable!

# 1st May 2006, 1:27 pm / safari

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