Simon Willison’s Weblog

SpellBound 0.7.3 (via) Spellchecker extension for Firefox.

# 20th January 2005, 9:23 pm

Getters/Setters/Fuxors. The oddly titled definitive guide to getters and setters in Python.

# 20th January 2005, 8:27 am

GreaseMonkeyUserScripts. There are quite a few already.

# 20th January 2005, 12:16 am

Wikipedia: Shirky / (Tufte x Wattenburg) = ? Sparklines for Wikipedia: an outstanding idea.

# 19th January 2005, 11:12 pm / wikipedia

Interviewing at Google. An insight in to the Google interviewing process.

# 19th January 2005, 9:48 pm

IBM to Free Java—Next Week? The question mark means it’s a rumour.

# 19th January 2005, 4:54 pm / ibm, java

PostgreSQL: What’s New in 8.0. Win32 server, savepoints, tablespaces, plperl and more.

# 19th January 2005, 4:11 pm / postgresql

PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Released. Includes a native Win32 port for the first time!

# 19th January 2005, 4:06 pm / postgresql

The Daily Express on Firefox. Ish. Amusing example of inaccuracy in mainstream media.

# 19th January 2005, 9:50 am / firefox

Google Blog: Preventing comment spam. I was right, then.

# 19th January 2005, 3 am

Small, Cheap, and Without a Display. John Gruber’s analysis of the MacWorld expo.

# 17th January 2005, 4 am / apple, john-gruber

franklinmint.fm: rel=“nofollow”. Robert spotted it first.

# 17th January 2005, 1:44 am

A Mac-to-PC switcher movie (via) Yet Another Parody, but this one made me chuckle.

# 16th January 2005, 11:08 pm

Corrupt Techniques in Evidence Presentations (via) A new chapter from Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence.

# 16th January 2005, 11:02 pm

Internet Explorer drops support for bookmarklets? Latest patch prevents drag-n-drop to toolbar.

# 16th January 2005, 9:12 pm

BBC—Comedy—Armando Iannucci. Finally, news on a DVD of “The Armando Iannucci Show”.

# 16th January 2005, 1:03 am / bbc, comedy

Macworld Expo and Web Standards: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Apparently the HTML export from Pages sucks, horribly.

# 15th January 2005, 6:28 pm

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day. Wikipedia, English edition turns 4.

# 15th January 2005, 4:42 pm / wikipedia

The Stripper-FAQ (via) Surprisingly informative and not in the least bit sleazy.

# 15th January 2005, 12:25 pm

Turn any iPod into an iPod Shuffle in 3 easy steps! “Now you can enjoy the iPod Shuffle’s cool new feature without having to go buy a new player.”

# 12th January 2005, 8:50 am

Russell Beattie reviews the iPod shuffle. Reconfirming his position as the world’s number one early adopter.

# 12th January 2005, 12:56 am

@media 2005. Web Standards / accessibility conference in London, with a great list of speakers but a painful registration fee.

# 11th January 2005, 10:48 pm

iWork—Pages (via) Might make the Word Processing market interesting again.

# 11th January 2005, 7:13 pm

iPod shuffle. Smaller than a pack of gum.

# 11th January 2005, 7:11 pm

Mac mini. Small, cheap, pretty.

# 11th January 2005, 7:10 pm

Picture of the iMac mini. I don’t think this is a fake.

# 11th January 2005, 6:39 pm

www.imacmini.com. Interesting...

# 11th January 2005, 4:35 pm

The E4X Specification.

# 11th January 2005, 2:58 pm

Rhino now supports E4X. Rhino is a JavaScript implementation in Java; E4X provides native XML support as a language feature.

# 11th January 2005, 2:58 pm

Andy’s Sandbox (via) The PLink Abductor has been joined by a funky pullout technique.

# 11th January 2005, 1:30 pm