Simon Willison’s Weblog

Subscribe
Atom feed

Blogmarks

Filters: Sorted by date

Dynamic Java. What happens when leaders from Java, Python, Perl, Parrot, Jython and Groovy get together in one room.

# 9th December 2004, 12:12 pm

Spyware on My Machine? So What? (via) Utterly depressing review of attitudes to spyware.

# 7th December 2004, 4:07 am

Game Studies (via) “... a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research ...”

# 7th December 2004, 4:05 am / game-design

Writing serious Perl: The absolute minimum you need to know. Pleasantly concise introduction to Perl packages and classes.

# 1st December 2004, 1:21 pm

First Look at Firefox-Based Netscape. Interestingly enough, there’s a “display like IE” option.

# 1st December 2004, 12:45 pm / firefox

Could it be any uglier? The new AOL/Netscape browser (based on Firefox) looks, well, horrible.

# 1st December 2004, 11:49 am

Python 2.4. Woohoo! It’s been released.

# 1st December 2004, 12:57 am

Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs. My favourite is unexplained greyed-out menu items.

# 1st December 2004, 12:29 am

Python Parsing Tools (via) Ned’s compilation of Python parsing libraries.

# 30th November 2004, 2:53 pm / ned-batchelder, python

Bug Report (via) PPK’s latest, an interactive CSS browser bug database. Fantastic!

# 24th November 2004, 12:31 am

Tim Bray: Opening Everything. “... the days when the recipe for success included wrapping the engineering in a veil of secrecy, those days are gone.”

# 21st November 2004, 4:03 pm / tim-bray

XUL Filemanager (via) Really, really impressive technology demo. Firefox required.

# 21st November 2004, 12:53 am

RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths. “This memo documents the fundamental truths of networking for the Internet community.”

# 20th November 2004, 9:26 pm / rfc

Introducing Java 5. It seems to mainly fix common irritations, which can’t be a bad thing.

# 19th November 2004, 5:16 pm

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System (via) If you haven’t checked it out yet, do so. It’s great.

# 18th November 2004, 9:39 pm

Google Scholar. Search academic papers. Invaluable for degree course final year projects.

# 18th November 2004, 3:25 pm

Kittens! (via) It’s the motherlode!

# 18th November 2004, 11:16 am

The Man Behind the FedEx Logo (via) An interview, mostly about the subliminal arrow.

# 17th November 2004, 12:50 am

Years

Tags