Simon Willison’s Weblog

From floors to mud... BBC Outside Broadcasts’ account of covering Glastonbury.

# 8th July 2005, 1:45 am

My Roskilde Festival 2005 photos. I had a fantastic holiday.

# 8th July 2005, 1:42 am

Fuel For The Web. Ajax makes the front cover of Information Week.

# 8th July 2005, 1:41 am

Blake Ross: The new Firefox tag line (via) Blake claims this is a true story. If it is, wow!

# 8th July 2005, 1:36 am / firefox

Mayor of London—Mayor’s Statement, 7th July 2005. Worth reading.

# 7th July 2005, 8:34 pm

Wikipedia: 2005 London transport explosions. I’m OK (I’m not in London), as is everyone I’ve been in touch with.

# 7th July 2005, 5:39 pm / wikipedia

lesscode.org (via) Ryan Tomayko’s new project, promoting light weight development methodologies.

# 7th July 2005, 5:38 pm

Tribute to a Friend. Nigel McFarlane did more for Mozilla documentation than anyone else I know of. He will be sorely missed.

# 6th July 2005, 1:40 am

Scripting Media Types (via) JavaScript finally has an official mime-type (or several)—application/javascript looks like the best bet.

# 6th July 2005, 12:04 am

VLC 0.8.2 (via) Now with support for Dirac and Apple Lossless Audio.

# 5th July 2005, 3:38 pm

Naked Law (via) A blog about technology law, written by actual lawyers.

# 5th July 2005, 3:33 pm / law

PHPXMLRPC Library Remote Code Execution (via) IXR is not affected by this vulnerability.

# 5th July 2005, 3:21 pm

Safari RSS databases in Mac OS X Tiger. You can query them using sqlite3—and there are (unintended?) easter eggs.

# 5th July 2005, 12:35 pm

2005 Underhanded C Contest. Write code that looks innocent but does something evil.

# 5th July 2005, 12:15 pm / c

Those darn wikis. Why the LA Times wikitorial failed.

# 5th July 2005, 12:14 pm

View formatted source extension for Firefox (via) I haven’t tried this yet, but apparently it’s a big improvement.

# 5th July 2005, 12:14 pm / firefox

Handling International Text with Unicode in Python. A nice straight forward recipe from the Python Cookbook.

# 5th July 2005, 12:05 pm

Prototype Effect.Flash. Richard’s been hacking around with Prototype.

# 5th July 2005, 12:04 pm

Salted Hash Login Generator for Rails. I’ve used the precursor to this, Login Generator, to good effect.

# 5th July 2005, 12:02 pm / rails

script.aculo.us—web 2.0 javascript. A pretty impressive collection of modern JavaScript tricks.

# 5th July 2005, 12:01 pm

The state of accessibility in the real world. Screen readers are tricker beasts than you may have imagined.

# 5th July 2005, 11:58 am / accessibility

AJAXSLT on code.google.com. A pure JavaScript XPath and XSLT implementation. With a really silly name.

# 5th July 2005, 11:57 am

Obsoletely Famous. Replacing old tutorials with new ones.

# 5th July 2005, 11:55 am

More Unicode Secrets. Uche expands on some more unicode tricks with Python.

# 5th July 2005, 11:54 am

Object.prototype is verboten. This is a problem with the popular Prototype library.

# 5th July 2005, 11:53 am / javascript, prototype-js

Learning Perl the Hard Way [PDF]. A guide to Perl for people with previous programming experience.

# 18th June 2005, 6:27 pm

New WP.org Search. Matt praises Yahoo’s search APIs.

# 17th June 2005, 11:31 pm

Python programming job at Columbia University. Ignore the jargon—a little birdie tells me this is a Python job.

# 17th June 2005, 11 pm / python

Updates from code.google.com: We’re Expanding the Summer of Code... That’s 2 million dollars instead of 1.

# 17th June 2005, 8:49 pm

Over 600,000 mp3 downloads of BBC Radio 3’s Beethoven programmes. Note the bit at the end about how much internal buzz this is generating.

# 16th June 2005, 9:31 pm