Simon Willison’s Weblog

Leak Free Javascript Closures. This is some pretty brilliant JavaScript voodoo.

# 27th October 2005, 1:52 pm / closures

BBC job involving dynamic languages. “Software Engineer Team Leader” should be read as “build cool shit”.

# 26th October 2005, 12:24 pm

RubyZilla—a demo movie. Creating a simple browser in 20 minutes with Ruby and Glade2.

# 26th October 2005, 11:47 am

Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? As a non-Windows programmer, this was an interesting look at the other side of the fence.

# 26th October 2005, 12:44 am

Simple JavaScript Database (via) Flash-based local storage + JS SQL engine = abundant possibilities.

# 25th October 2005, 10:51 pm

Google at it again. Ian’s rant perfectly reflects my own feelings on the matter. Don’t break existing apps.

# 25th October 2005, 8:53 pm

Google Base, the spirit of our times. Are Google about to kick-start a centralised imitation of the semantic web?

# 25th October 2005, 5:51 pm

Hurricane Wilma survival blog. My friend Levi is weathering the storm.

# 25th October 2005, 4 pm

Something Rotten in AdSense. Click fraud is a nasty problem.

# 24th October 2005, 6:07 pm

Scryer: Django page-view counter. Simple but informative Django recent stats package.

# 19th October 2005, 12:48 am

Farewell BBC—and hello Yahoo! (plasticbag.org). We have a Tom Coates!

# 17th October 2005, 7:25 am

Using prototype.js v1.3.1 (via) Prototype: the missing manual.

# 14th October 2005, 2:16 pm / javascript, prototype-js

Django design philosophies. The guiding principles behind Django’s design.

# 14th October 2005, 12:29 pm

Technical explanation of myspace worm. Fascinating description of the holes in their HTML stripping algorithms.

# 14th October 2005, 12:16 pm

Samy, Their Hero (via) An interview with the author of the MySpace worm

# 14th October 2005, 12:13 pm

Jot-Ning AdSense Shenanigans (via) Cute.

# 14th October 2005, 12 pm

HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software (via) Mark Pilgrim’s Handbrake tutorial.

# 13th October 2005, 9:01 am

Flash for client-side vector graphics! This is a holy-crap moment. You could emulate the canvas tag API for IE with this.

# 13th October 2005, 8:45 am

Is ESPN returning to the nest? Back to layout tables from CSS. Anyone know why?

# 13th October 2005, 8:38 am

Heatmapping Google Earth. Coolest use of Django to date.

# 11th October 2005, 9:07 pm

Core Data as a Cheap Database. Build a database GUI application with virtually no code.

# 11th October 2005, 12:41 pm

Internet Explorer’s Mark of the Web. Anyone else reminded of the Mark of the Beast?

# 9th October 2005, 1:24 pm

Django gods—Uncyclopedia. Utterly bizzare. I do like squirrels though.

# 7th October 2005, 3:45 pm / django

On RSS and the coming wave of content theft. A reason to avoid commercial-use-allowed Creative Commons licenses.

# 5th October 2005, 11:25 am

Yahoo and Upcoming, Sitting In A Tree. This is really good news.

# 5th October 2005, 11:14 am

Ning. A social software app for building social software apps. That’s so meta.

# 4th October 2005, 12:05 pm

Open Content Alliance. Their website.

# 3rd October 2005, 11:45 am

Announcing the Open Content Alliance. Yahoo! are teaming up with the Internet Archive and others.

# 3rd October 2005, 11:45 am

window.onload—An Alternative Solution. If you don’t mind hosting HTCs.

# 30th September 2005, 5:07 pm

A Basic RayCaster (with the canvas tag) (via) That didn’t take long.

# 30th September 2005, 10:29 am