Simon Willison’s Weblog

Optimus keyboard. Every key is a colour screen.

# 9th January 2006, 6:27 pm

Parsed.org (via) Computing tips site, powered by Django.

# 7th January 2006, 11:59 am

3D Maps BETA. Firefox 1.5 only; uses SVG.

# 6th January 2006, 11 am

Microsoft releases WMF update. Thank goodness for that.

# 6th January 2006, 2:34 am

Lego mindstorms NXT. Lego announce a new mindstorms Robot, Mac compatible, with bluetooth.

# 5th January 2006, 11:58 am

Running a Service in China. An MSN Spaces employee responds.

# 4th January 2006, 8:59 pm

@media 2006. Back for another year, in London on the 15-16th of June.

# 4th January 2006, 4:23 pm

Creating a Star Rater using CSS (via) It’s been a while since I saw a new CSS trick as neat as this one.

# 4th January 2006, 12:14 am

Microsoft takes down Chinese blogger (via) Fascinating analysis of how easy it is to take the low-road when dealing with China.

# 3rd January 2006, 5:38 pm

SANS WMF Exploit FAQ. This is really good.

# 2nd January 2006, 2:59 am

SANS recommend unofficial WMF patch (via) Unprecedented—but MS response is just too slow.

# 2nd January 2006, 2:52 am

Ajax Link Tracker. Really neat stats tracking/overlay trick.

# 30th December 2005, 7:58 pm

Canvas in IE (via) Cunning hack using .htc and VML.

# 30th December 2005, 3:39 pm

Microsoft customer warning: Bad exploit in Windows. 0-day. Sounds really nasty.

# 29th December 2005, 12:03 am

The Dojo Manual (via) Dojo finally gets some really good extensive documentation.

# 24th December 2005, 6:21 pm / documentation, dojo, javascript

Chris Shiflett: Google XSS Example (via) UTF-7 is a nasty vector for XSS.

# 24th December 2005, 5:21 pm / chris-shiflett, google, security, xss

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speech at the Sierra Club (via) How environmentalism is a form of free market capitalism.

# 23rd December 2005, 11:46 pm

Python Creator Guido van Rossum now working at Google. Google are taking dynamic languages really seriously.

# 22nd December 2005, 12:04 am / google, guido-van-rossum, python

Productivity Arbitrage. Rails goes enterprise. Django gets a mention as well.

# 21st December 2005, 7:22 pm / productivity, rails

CanvasGraph.js. Uses canvas to draw graphs in JavaScript. It can pull data from HTML tables!

# 21st December 2005, 5 pm

Google Zeitgeist: Celebrities. I’m impressed that this is the first I’ve heard of Britney having a baby.

# 21st December 2005, 12:48 am

Scoble asks why people preper RoR to ASP.NET... ... and gets 49 detailed replies.

# 21st December 2005, 12:23 am

Rails Weenie—find answers to your Ruby on Rails questions. Kind of like a specialized Yahoo! Answers for Ruby on Rails.

# 20th December 2005, 3:33 pm / rails

reflection.js demo. iChat AV style reflections with the canvas element.

# 19th December 2005, 4:16 pm

gathering the troops (via) danah on Yahoo!’s progressing cultural shift.

# 18th December 2005, 11:14 pm

The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts. Bruce Eckel on Java, Ruby, Python, Rails and more.

# 18th December 2005, 9:25 pm / bruce-eckel

Surfin’ Safari: SVG Has Landed. Now in Safari nightly builds.

# 18th December 2005, 8:21 pm / safari, svg

BBC News: The Open News Archive (via) 79 news clips for download under the Creative Archive license.

# 16th December 2005, 11:43 am

Using JSON with Yahoo! Web Services (via) No more cross-domain script access problems.

# 15th December 2005, 11:53 pm / json, web-services, yahoo, ydn

Microsoft Team RSS Blog : Icons: It’s still orange. MS are adapting the Mozilla RSS/Atom icon. Excellent.

# 15th December 2005, 7:39 am