Simon Willison’s Weblog

Oracle 10g XE and PHP. HarryF has a handy tutorial on getting started with the new free Oracle version.

# 1st November 2005, 10:46 pm / php

Ross doesn’t trust Microsoft’s approach to Web. Scoble nails the reasons smart web developers avoid the MS stack.

# 1st November 2005, 12:47 pm

Yahoo! Autos Custom. I guess you could call this the Flickr of custom cars.

# 1st November 2005, 12:37 pm

World’s 10 Tallest Buildings—SkyscraperPage.com (via) This site is the Wikipedia of skyscraper pixel art.

# 1st November 2005, 8:20 am

About the Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update. Includes an updated Safari that passes the Acid 2 test.

# 1st November 2005, 12:18 am

The BBC’s programme catalogue (on Rails). Matt Biddulph’s current project is insanely cool.

# 31st October 2005, 7:39 pm / bbc, matt-biddulph, rails

Don’t get ahead of the curve. UK students are way behind the curve.

# 31st October 2005, 6:31 pm

Matt Croydon is moving to Kansas. Another professional Django developer.

# 31st October 2005, 4:02 pm

Djangolians from the Planet Rails. Halloween costume fun.

# 30th October 2005, 6:30 pm / rails

List of British English words not used in American English (via) Wikipedia’s essential guide to confusing Americans.

# 30th October 2005, 12:17 pm / wikipedia

On the BBC Annotatable Audio project... Tom’s last BBC project. He’s mine now!

# 28th October 2005, 10:10 pm

A9.com Maps. Impressive integration of street photos with pannable maps.

# 28th October 2005, 4:07 pm

The Zen of Microformats. The process is more interesting than the formats themselves.

# 28th October 2005, 10:30 am

London Web Frameworks Night. Talks on Django, Rails, Catalyst. I’m talking about Django.

# 28th October 2005, 10:22 am / rails

World Usability Day. Coming up November 3rd. Lots of events around the world.

# 28th October 2005, 10:18 am / usability

Flickr printing now available (US only). You can also order your photos as stamps!

# 27th October 2005, 4:33 pm / flickr

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