Simon Willison’s Weblog

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 / safari

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 / safari

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

iPod—Compare Models. Make sense of the newly updated iPod range.

# 23rd February 2005, 4:30 pm

A GIS newsletter describes the server-side tech behind Google Maps (via) Apparently it’s using Telcontar’s Drill Down Server, with extensive customisations.

# 23rd February 2005, 4:11 pm / geospatial, google-maps

Leaked republican strategy briefing. Fascinating insight in to how American politics really works.

# 23rd February 2005, 3:11 pm

Fun with Google Maps. My writeup of the latest developments.

# 23rd February 2005, 2:04 am

The Observer Blog (via) All kinds of funky blog gizmos on this one.

# 22nd February 2005, 9:50 pm

Introduction to Jython. Short but sweet; covers the essentials nicely.

# 22nd February 2005, 9:25 pm / jython

Zeroconf and Python. I might be using this as part of my final year project.

# 21st February 2005, 12:53 pm

Use HTML 4.01, not XHTML. Why Stuart’s book uses HTML, not XHTML.

# 21st February 2005, 12:52 pm / xhtml

KUsports.com gets a redesign. CSS under the hood, but the real star’s the content.

# 20th February 2005, 10:53 pm