Simon Willison’s Weblog

Event Cache. For avoiding memory leaks in Internet Explorer.

# 10th March 2005, 8:15 pm

Combining XMLHttpRequest and Rails to Produce More Efficient UIs. Ruby on Rails is setting itself up to be THE framework for Ajax work.

# 10th March 2005, 8:10 pm / rails, xmlhttprequest

The Digital Edition Dirigibles. Worth reading just for the stuff about Zeppelins.

# 10th March 2005, 8:08 pm

Clearing floats on Quirksmode (via) PPK’s writeup of the new overflow:auto technique.

# 10th March 2005, 8 pm

Taming the back button. That most elusive of browser features.

# 10th March 2005, 7:59 pm

Google News, now with customisation (via) Very nice use of drag and drop for the interface.

# 10th March 2005, 8:22 am

apophenia: fuck the SXSW etiquette guide (via) Point.... counter-point.

# 10th March 2005, 6:32 am

The unofficial geek guide to getting over yourself at SxSW Interactive 2005. I gotta get me one of those smilie stickers.

# 10th March 2005, 6:31 am

wush.net Subversion hosting (via) Subversion and Trac hosting for $20/month.

# 9th March 2005, 11:56 pm / subversion, trac

journal [paulhammond.org]. Paul’s back.

# 9th March 2005, 8:28 pm / paul-hammond

Not linking is not security. Ridiculous: Harvard rejects applicants who “hacked” by guessing a URL.

# 8th March 2005, 8:47 pm / harvard, outrageous, security

Google Desktop Search SDK. Note the reference to the “long tail of applications and file types”.

# 7th March 2005, 10:22 pm

The on-demand blogosphere. I get a bit-part in a Jon Udell screencast! This actually ties in to my final year project...

# 7th March 2005, 9:31 pm / jon-udell

From the archives of The Scotsman. In 1865, newspapers were formatted much like blogs.

# 7th March 2005, 5:27 pm

Are Confirmation Dialogs Harmful? (via) Undo beats confirmation dialogs every time.

# 7th March 2005, 3:56 pm

Greasemonkey Stole Your Job (and Your Business Model) (via) “It’s so meta” in the comments made me chuckle.

# 7th March 2005, 3:48 pm / greasemonkey

Anabasis. Jeremy Dunck finally set up his domain name.

# 7th March 2005, 3:35 pm

“Link Integrity Preservation” for Greasemonkey (via) Ouch.

# 7th March 2005, 3:34 pm / greasemonkey, mark-pilgrim

Bad laws won’t stop the bombers (via) Explaining the motivations behind the UK’s scandalous new anti-terror laws.

# 7th March 2005, 2:40 pm

The strength of edition (via) Brian Hamman defends “digital editions”—not a position you see very often.

# 6th March 2005, 10:14 pm

NS8, part 1: I need closure. Blake Ross on Netscape 8’s many usability snafus.

# 6th March 2005, 9:58 pm

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