Simon Willison’s Weblog

Rails (via) MVC web framework for Ruby.

# 25th July 2004, 7:32 pm / rails

Far more than you ever wanted to know about OS X networking. Fascinating look at some command line OS X configuration utilities.

# 24th July 2004, 8:53 pm

Mozilla Adds Undetectable document.all Support (via) Twisty browser compatibility hacks just got twistier.

# 23rd July 2004, 11:04 pm / mozilla

XHTML FAQ: please remove application/xml XSLT hack (via) Bjoern Hoehrmann blows it out of the water.

# 23rd July 2004, 9:29 pm / xhtml, xslt

A Python Sidebar for Mozilla (via) Nice quick reference tool for Mozilla and Firefox.

# 22nd July 2004, 10:23 pm / mozilla

IEBlog (via) The Internet Explorer team have a blog.

# 22nd July 2004, 4:42 pm

Hacks of all trades. If you haven’t heard of OhMyNews, you should read this. Now.

# 22nd July 2004, 1:52 am

Magical Trevor (via) Weebl’s latest earworm. Mighty infectious.

# 22nd July 2004, 1:36 am

XHTML Frequently Answered Questions (via) Includes a trick for getting IE to accept XHTML served as “application/xml”.

# 22nd July 2004, 12:17 am / xhtml

XML on the Web Has Failed. Mark Pilgrim concludes a theme he’s been following for quite a while.

# 21st July 2004, 11:19 pm / mark-pilgrim, xml

WWW::Odeon (via) A simple API for screen-scraping the www.odeon.co.uk website.

# 21st July 2004, 3:27 pm / perl, scraping

brian’s Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem (via) Can also apply to Python. My #1 Python tip: write everything in the interactive prompt first.

# 21st July 2004, 3:14 pm

Installing PHP 5 on OS X if you’re using Server Logistics’ “Complete Apache 2” and “Complete MySQL”. Does exactly what it says on the tin.

# 21st July 2004, 4:55 am / mysql, php

Wired News: Changing the Face of Web Surfing. They don’t mention per-site stylesheets or extensions... yet.

# 21st July 2004, 1:27 am

Netcraft: RSS Traffic Burdens Publisher’s Servers (via) Here comes the “can RSS scale?” question again.

# 20th July 2004, 7:40 pm

Password Recycling. Another reason registation everywhere is a train wreck.

# 20th July 2004, 3:34 pm

Faking it: WordPress as CMS (via) Hacking WP to power a simple CMS is surprisingly easy.

# 20th July 2004, 1:31 am

Digital Sports Photography Tips (via) Sports photography is a lot harder than it looks.

# 19th July 2004, 9:03 pm

Apple: Lithium-ion Batteries (via) Tips for improving your battery’s lifespan.

# 19th July 2004, 8:41 pm

Clickable Link Backgrounds. With a twist to avoid the IE6 flicker bug.

# 19th July 2004, 5:19 pm

Fred Durst Has a Blog. And it’s even worse than it sounds.

# 19th July 2004, 7:28 am

TheyWorkForYou Full Source Code Published. Open source political hackery.

# 19th July 2004, 7:26 am

Indispensable Mac OS X products. I’ve been having some fun with MenuMeters as a result of this post.

# 19th July 2004, 7:25 am

Rock, Paper, Saddam! Beware the awesome tiger hand.

# 19th July 2004, 7:17 am

Jeffrey Veen: Damage in Web Design. Users route around damage.

# 19th July 2004, 7:17 am

Version 2 | Blog | 1976design.com. Plenty of entertaining little details—be sure to dig around.

# 17th July 2004, 7:24 pm

Wired News: Searching for The New York Times. Opinion piece on how registration and paid archives are crippling the New York Times.

# 16th July 2004, 9:12 pm

Learning Python As You Go. Ryan Tomayko on language learning approaches.

# 16th July 2004, 7:49 am

Iraqi women beg to be killed as American soldiers sodomize their children. The most upsetting MetaFilter thread I’ve ever read.

# 16th July 2004, 6:12 am

Processing XML with JavaScript. My notes on Sarissa and Mozilla’s XML Extras.

# 16th July 2004, 5:08 am / xml