Simon Willison’s Weblog

Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting. A case study in improving application performance.

# 4th June 2004, 4:44 am

www.khaaan.com. Best. Domain. Ever.

# 3rd June 2004, 10:41 pm

Exploring wxPython: The stdout/stderr Window and MessageDialogs. Joey deVilla’s series on wxPython continues.

# 3rd June 2004, 4:26 pm

’Nerd Values’ Help Propel Tiny Craigslist Into Classifieds Threat (via) This is a big deal for the newspaper industry. Classifieds are a large chunk of their revenue.

# 3rd June 2004, 3:03 pm

EditThisPagePHP (via) A decent looking small site management system.

# 3rd June 2004, 5:33 am

The Plink Abductor! (via) Just the thing for all you plink haters. Great JavaScript as well.

# 3rd June 2004, 1:27 am

Lorem Ipsum: Generator3 (via) The internationalisation edition.

# 2nd June 2004, 8:56 pm

kansascity.craiglist.org (via) craigslist comes to KC.

# 1st June 2004, 8:28 pm

Purple Pilcrows. Pilcrows are cool.

# 1st June 2004, 2:22 pm

Ten Questions for Simon Willison. With answers. And a photo. Fame at last!

# 1st June 2004, 5:29 am

Midwest US hit by severe storms. They mostly missed Kansas. This time.

# 1st June 2004, 5:02 am

Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser Wars Reignite (via) This time it’s web standards vs whatever MS are cooking up for Longhorn.

# 31st May 2004, 9:59 pm

Cheese-rolling gets back on track. I guess I missed the cheese rolling this year.

# 31st May 2004, 8:45 pm / cheese

Hackers & Painters (via) Paul Graham’s new book.

# 31st May 2004, 8:42 pm / paul-graham

Understanding Apache file permissions. From OnLamp’s A Day in the Life of #Apache series.

# 31st May 2004, 8:09 pm

Solving the “silent data loss” problem in RSS 2.0 (via) RSS to take inspiratiom from Atom?

# 31st May 2004, 7:56 pm

Repro, Man. “... the age of Word’s code base has surpassed the legal drinking age in all 50 states.”

# 31st May 2004, 7:46 am

Edward Tufte: Sparklines. An entire chapter from E.T.’s forthcoming book “Beautiful Evidence”.

# 31st May 2004, 5:05 am

Daring Fireball: Security Cannot Be Spun. Apple’s communication handling of the recent security problem was atrocious.

# 31st May 2004, 4 am / apple, daringfireball, john-gruber, macos, security

Everything Can be a Link with Mozilla’s window.getSelection() Method and the W3C DOM Range API (via) Impressive is an understatement.

# 31st May 2004, 3:31 am / mozilla

Pink Numbers [dive into mark]. Because you can’t go wrong with even more blog clutter.

# 31st May 2004, 3:07 am

A note on testing classNames in Konqueror and MSN/Mac (via) Apparently running a regex on .className can cause problems if an element has no class.

# 31st May 2004, 12:09 am

Id-Ego-Superego. Web service that adds ID attributes to HTML and XHTML documents.

# 30th May 2004, 10:56 pm

The Internet Slum (via) I can’t decide if this is pessimistic, realistic or both.

# 30th May 2004, 10:50 pm

’Purple Numbers" show a need for better linking tools (via) He’s right of course, but for granular linking to be useful it has to work in today’s browsers.

# 30th May 2004, 8:26 pm

More Purple Haze. Jonas Luster is tracking the purple numbers discussion.

# 30th May 2004, 8:22 pm

Ubiquitious Fragment Identifiers. mnot reveals his ID anchors using CSS generated content.

# 30th May 2004, 9:06 am / mark-nottingham

Sam Ruby: Détente. Absolute required reading for anyone with an interest in syndication.

# 29th May 2004, 7:53 pm / sam-ruby

Neowin Interview: Ben Goodger from the Mozilla Foundation. FireFox 0.9 will only be a 4.9 MB download.

# 29th May 2004, 4:35 pm / mozilla

How to debug JavaScript using MS script editor. This kind of comment is why I will never implement comment registration or anything like it.

# 29th May 2004, 4:12 am