Simon Willison’s Weblog

London 2.0 RC 5, Wednesday May 3rd. Last one was a ton of fun, with some great demos.

# 18th April 2006, 2:10 pm

selector—WSGI Delegation. Neat URL dispatching system, similar to Django’s.

# 17th April 2006, 12:13 pm / wsgi

XTech 2006: Ajax lightning demos. Show off your Ajax at XTech.

# 17th April 2006, 1:53 am

Giant squid on display at the Natural History Museum. Awesome. It’s 9 metres long!

# 15th April 2006, 12:01 am

InnoCentive Biology Challenges. Rent-a-coder style marketplace for scientists.

# 12th April 2006, 1:26 pm

Yahoo! Geocoding API response for Gdansk, Poland. International geocoding, baby!

# 12th April 2006, 12:48 pm

Some details about Ookles. Photo transforms defined by URLs, Flickr API compatibility and more.

# 12th April 2006, 11:11 am / flickr

Yahoo! Maps Web Services updated. Now include satellite images and lo-res international maps.

# 12th April 2006, 7:31 am

Yahoo Maps Satellite and Global coverage. Lo-res global satellite photos and basic road features.

# 12th April 2006, 7:28 am

Content-Type is dead. Ouch. Even messier than non-well-formed RSS.

# 12th April 2006, 12:56 am

Introducing SqlSoup. Lovely simple DB abstraction layer built on the excellent SQLAlchemy.

# 11th April 2006, 7:13 pm

The XMLHttpRequest Object (via) A W3C Working Draft.

# 9th April 2006, 11:58 pm / w3c, xmlhttprequest

KittenAuth Test (via) Better captchas.

# 7th April 2006, 8:37 pm

How I’m using Amazon S3 to serve media files. Adrian’s saving server overhead on ChicagoCrime by serving media from S3.

# 7th April 2006, 6:51 pm / adrian-holovaty, amazon, aws, chicagocrime, s3

Windows: The New Classic. John Gruber’s delightful take on Boot Camp.

# 6th April 2006, 9:11 pm / john-gruber

Rails is the devil on your (client-side) shoulder. This is exactly why I’m not a fan of RJS.

# 6th April 2006, 8:41 pm / rails

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

# 6th April 2006, 8:40 pm / rails

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