Simon Willison’s Weblog

NS 8 Beta review. Danial Glazman gives it to thumbs down.

# 6th March 2005, 9:57 pm

Search Engine Strategies New York. Eric Meyer is a stranger in a strange land.

# 6th March 2005, 12:19 pm

Controlling iTunes by rocking your PowerBook (via) Cunning Python/AppleScript hack that interfaces with the new motion detector.

# 6th March 2005, 2:35 am

Don’t Talk To Me Anymore! The BBC are closing some of their message boards. Unsurprisingly, the associated communities are very upset.

# 5th March 2005, 2:03 pm

Eric Meyer gets spammed in person. Just too funny.

# 4th March 2005, 6:36 pm

Photos of assorted baby animals. My favourite is the Tern.

# 3rd March 2005, 9:53 pm

Flying Meat: FlySketch. Really neat OS X application—lets you draw over part of your screen, then save the drawing.

# 3rd March 2005, 10:44 am

Developing Java Applications on Mac OS X with Eclipse. Nice introduction.

# 3rd March 2005, 10:34 am

Providing Application Access to SQL Data in Apple Remote Desktop 2 (via) Interesting—Apple’s Remote Desktop 2 runs off a PostgreSQL database.

# 3rd March 2005, 10:28 am / apple, postgresql

Magic Quotes Headaches. A nice roundup of why magic quotes is the worst PHP feature ever.

# 3rd March 2005, 8:40 am

Relaxation Ranking Passage Retrieval. Steve Green explains Sun’s passage search technology.

# 2nd March 2005, 1:20 pm

Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail (via) Brilliant greasemonkey hack.

# 2nd March 2005, 12:21 pm / gmail, greasemonkey

blo.gs: for sale. Rats. blo.gs powers my blogroll. I hope the API doesn’t go away.

# 2nd March 2005, 12:06 pm

Wired: The Book Stops Here. Truly excellent, in-depth article on Wikipedia from Wired.

# 2nd March 2005, 12:04 pm / wikipedia

Again, a newspaper PDF experiment is fatally flawed. Adrian nails the reason PDF editions will always play second fiddle to the real web.

# 2nd March 2005, 11:25 am / adrian-holovaty

Scratch Weblogging Software (via) Who needs HTML? Post by MetaWeblogAPI, read by RSS.

# 1st March 2005, 11:18 pm

Penny Arcade on kottke.org. The differences between the web comic and weblog communities are fascinating.

# 1st March 2005, 5:44 pm / penny-arcade

JavaScript and domain specific languages. My latest musings on SitePoint.

# 1st March 2005, 4:31 pm

Iceberg 1.1.4 (via) Free application for creating OS X installation packages.

# 1st March 2005, 12:54 am

Walking tour of Keene: followup. Injecting new data in to Google Maps using bookmarklets.

# 28th February 2005, 9:58 pm

Knightmare.com. Sweet, sweet nostalgia. The best children’s TV show ever.

# 28th February 2005, 8:58 pm

A day in the life of a BBC promo. A peak behind the scenes of the BBC homepage editorial process.

# 28th February 2005, 12:39 am

Wiki Spam Update. Sam Ruby suggests blocking changes that add 10 or more new links.

# 27th February 2005, 5:18 pm / sam-ruby

flickReplacr bookmarklet. Fun toy, and a good example of how to access browser selections.

# 26th February 2005, 11:47 am

Google Maps is available for Safari and Opera. Colour me impressed! OK guys, let’s see you do Lynx...

# 25th February 2005, 7:59 pm

The hamster powered MIDI sequencer (via) The music generated is surprisingly listenable!

# 25th February 2005, 1:28 pm

Jeffrey Veen: Google Maps in Safari. They’ve got it working already. Will Opera be next?

# 25th February 2005, 8:09 am

Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax. Crikey, I’ve been slashdotted!

# 24th February 2005, 12:45 am

Using DockSend in Transmit 3. This plus column view means I’ll be buying my copy shortly.

# 23rd February 2005, 11:54 pm

What have you guys been doing since IE6? (via) With regards to rendering, the answer appears to be “not a lot”.

# 23rd February 2005, 5:44 pm