Simon Willison’s Weblog

PHP 5 Object References. Mind the gotchas!

# 16th July 2004, 3:58 am

Wikalong Firefox Extension. I got an email tip off about this one too!

# 15th July 2004, 12:48 am / firefox

How to write Firefox extensions. Somone emailed me a link to this.

# 15th July 2004, 12:47 am / firefox

Picking apart Allmusic.com. Echos my thoughts exactly.

# 14th July 2004, 9:49 pm

Tutorial: Creating a Mozilla Extension (via) I spent nearly an hour looking for this the other day with no success.

# 14th July 2004, 8:17 pm / mozilla

Cheap debugging trick: inspect + pprint. Easy python stack tracing.

# 14th July 2004, 7:29 pm

allmusic.com—Standards-based Rebuild. It took Tim Murtaugh two hours.

# 14th July 2004, 3:49 pm

Rock, Paper, Saddam! (via) Outstanding.

# 14th July 2004, 3:37 pm

Fuck You And Your H2 (via) 845 photos of people flipping off hummers.

# 14th July 2004, 5:53 am

Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5 (via) A migration guide from the PHP manual.

# 14th July 2004, 5:35 am / php, php5

MSNBC.com sees surge in video ads. With thoughts from Cory Bergman on the role of video in local news sites.

# 14th July 2004, 12:22 am

Spotlight on Spotlight. Spotlight re-indexes every time you create, modify or move a file.

# 12th July 2004, 11:32 pm

Improved Search. Getting the most out of search built on LIKE queries.

# 12th July 2004, 3:45 pm

Why Mac OS X is Better. Pure, unadulterated advocacy.

# 12th July 2004, 3:45 pm

Malice and Incompetence. Tim Bray’s commentary on the Iraq Intelligence report.

# 11th July 2004, 6:56 pm / tim-bray

Meet Snowdrop, the baby otter (via) Simply adorable.

# 9th July 2004, 10:35 pm

Is the W3C Becoming Irrelevant? Dare on routing around the W3C.

# 9th July 2004, 3:42 pm

GMailCompose (via) Finally, webmail support for mailto: links.

# 9th July 2004, 3:40 pm

adot’s notblog*: take action. Call for CNET Download.com reviews for Firefox.

# 9th July 2004, 3:39 pm

Café testing (via) A brilliantly easy of conducting quick usability tests.

# 9th July 2004, 6:41 am / usability

Tablespaces (via) Interesting new feature in PostgreSQL 7.5.

# 9th July 2004, 5:58 am / postgresql

Man of the moment. Phil Gyford gets some well-deserved recognition.

# 9th July 2004, 5:45 am / phil-gyford

The Artist’s Statement. Fascinating account of homeland security gone wrong.

# 9th July 2004, 5:37 am

Jeffrey Veen: MP3 Blogs and wget. Quite simply the smartest wget one-liner ever.

# 8th July 2004, 12:28 am

USaviation.com Forums -> Edwards Vp (via) These guys knew before anyone else.

# 7th July 2004, 9:52 pm

Technorati tracks 3 million blogs. Whoa.

# 7th July 2004, 8:05 pm / blogosphere, technorati

Why XML served as text/plain is not well-formed (via) Apparently plain text is intended to be displayed “as-is”.

# 7th July 2004, 3:37 pm / xml

“The Building of Basecamp” Review. Includes insights in to 37 Signals’ process.

# 7th July 2004, 8:34 am / 37signals

Using the XML HTTP Request object (via) Recently updated to include Safari as well.

# 7th July 2004, 7:07 am / xml, xmlhttprequest

IE5/Mac Band Pass Filter (via) Feed a stylesheet to IE5/Mac only.

# 7th July 2004, 7:02 am