Simon Willison’s Weblog

Amazon S3. Game changing.

# 22nd March 2006, 5:59 pm / amazon, aws, s3

Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? Great essay from danah. MySpace finally makes a bit of sense to me.

# 22nd March 2006, 7:55 am

Form Hijack (via) Neat unobtrusive JavaScript trick—use document.onclick to catch events before page has loaded.

# 21st March 2006, 10:43 am / forms, javascript

Atom as a Case Study. Notes from one of my favourite talks at ETech.

# 21st March 2006, 8:20 am / atom

Lighty Rocks My PHP/MySQL World. Matt Croyden reports that Lighty + PHP + FastCGI is lightning fast.

# 20th March 2006, 7:31 pm

Activating ActiveX Controls (via) MS advice on getting around the Eolas thing. Their JS code is nasty though.

# 20th March 2006, 11:49 am

Checkmates (via) Really neat Yahoo! mobile demo released at ETech.

# 9th March 2006, 1:09 am

Universal Encoding Detector. Character encoding auto-detection in Python, ported from Mozilla.

# 8th March 2006, 7:56 am

Forget addEvent, use Yahoo!’s Event Utility. Great explanation of the cool stuff in YAHOO.util.Event.

# 8th March 2006, 12:08 am

Introduction to JavaScript (ETech 2006 Tutorial). Phil Windley’s extensive notes from my tutorial.

# 7th March 2006, 11:18 pm

Yahoo! Hub Korea. Korean tag clouds are really pretty.

# 3rd March 2006, 12:10 am

Campfire Bot. Campfire + Greasemonkey = Bot. How long until there’s a Google Talk one of these?

# 26th February 2006, 6:18 am / greasemonkey

Django Templates: The Power of Inheritance. Really good overview of one of my favourite Django features.

# 26th February 2006, 5:58 am

Comic Sans—Wikipedia. The Comic Sans euro symbol has a little face.

# 22nd February 2006, 11:54 am / wikipedia

JavaScript slideshow fun. Nat’s built a slideshow with permalinks for images.

# 22nd February 2006, 11:08 am

Painless JavaScript Using Prototype. The missing manual, by Dan Webb.

# 22nd February 2006, 8:53 am / dan-webb, javascript, prototype-js

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