Simon Willison’s Weblog

[delicious-discuss] big news. Joshua has funding, and is now working on del.icio.us full time.

# 30th March 2005, 8:55 am / delicious

Five-minute Multimethods in Python. A nice decorator example from Guido.

# 30th March 2005, 8:47 am / guido-van-rossum, python

Google Acquires Urchin (via) I’ve used Urchin, and it’s a very decent piece of software.

# 29th March 2005, 9:06 pm

Drag-and-drop Sortable Lists with JavaScript and CSS. I built something very similar to this last year at the Journal-World.

# 29th March 2005, 6:06 am

thunk.py. Fun Python hack for use with map() and filter().

# 28th March 2005, 8:04 pm

tpp—text presentation program. s5 is old hat: this ncurses-based presentation program runs in a terminal.

# 25th March 2005, 6:46 pm

Jeffrey Veen: State-of-the-art interactivity? All-Flash sites still suck.

# 25th March 2005, 5:16 am

scrape.py. A clever Python screen-scraping module, with similarities to WWW::Mechanize.

# 25th March 2005, 5:09 am / python, scraping

Luminocity OpenGL Videos. These are pretty cool.

# 25th March 2005, 12:10 am

JavaScript Breakpoints. Another brilliant piece of JavaScript hackery from Steve Yen.

# 25th March 2005, 12:07 am

Greaseblog (via) The weblog about greasemonkey

# 23rd March 2005, 9:52 pm / greasemonkey

PyCon 2005 photos. I’ve started uploading to Flickr.

# 23rd March 2005, 6:06 pm / flickr

The Path of Least Resistance. This was one of the most interesting issues raised at SxSW.

# 23rd March 2005, 4:48 am

How to really confuse your party guests. A normal room?

# 23rd March 2005, 4:44 am

Beautiful photo on Flickr. Spotted via the iraq tag feed.

# 22nd March 2005, 3:09 pm / flickr

One hundred words for snow. More on the Ajax naming debate. A name is a powerful thing.

# 22nd March 2005, 3:08 pm

The State of the Scripting Universe. More buzz for dynamic languages.

# 22nd March 2005, 2:59 pm

Strongbad scares Chapman. Great photo from the Home Star Runner panel at SxSW.

# 21st March 2005, 5:39 pm

Just how much power does Google need? And will they use the Columbia River for water cooling?

# 21st March 2005, 5:38 pm

Microformats could describe online news intelligently. Adrian’s been thinking about micro formats and online news.

# 18th March 2005, 5:42 pm

sxsw: leveraging solipsism. A write-up of one of the many excellent panels I missed.

# 18th March 2005, 2:37 am

Usable Security: Look Beyond the “Fundamental Conflict”. Security and usability are not conflicting goals.

# 18th March 2005, 2:27 am / ka-ping-yee, security, usability

Google Code. An online home for Google’s open source projects.

# 18th March 2005, 2:02 am

Nifty Corners. Rounded corners with no images and no crufty markup (JavaScript required).

# 18th March 2005, 2 am

Making Light: Virtual panel participation. Excellent thinking on the subject of online community moderation.

# 15th March 2005, 9:38 pm / moderation

SxSW Interactive. See you all in Austin!

# 10th March 2005, 8:18 pm

voice of humanity: The Annotated Web. I need to read this for my final year project.

# 10th March 2005, 8:17 pm

A CSS styled calendar. More CSS goodness.

# 10th March 2005, 8:16 pm

A simple introduction to 3 column layouts. Nice CSS tutorial.

# 10th March 2005, 8:16 pm

Fadomatic—DHTML opacity effect. Can you tell I’m clearing out my tabs before departing for SxSW?

# 10th March 2005, 8:16 pm