Simon Willison’s Weblog

Synergy (via) Easily share a single mouse/keyboard between multiple PCs running multiple OSs

# 15th December 2003, 3:03 am

Pythonic Geometry. Teaching maths and Python to 13 year olds

# 15th December 2003, 2:28 am / mathematics

2004: Year of Linux? And 2003, and 2000, and 1999, and 1998...

# 13th December 2003, 11:58 pm

LunaticPython. Python inside Lua inside Python and more

# 13th December 2003, 10:10 pm

John Zelle response to Kirby’s review. Insight in to aims of a CS1 course

# 13th December 2003, 9:11 pm

Widgetopia (via) Website UI elements, collected

# 13th December 2003, 8:08 pm

Learning how to be a developer (via) aka “Why intensive 5 day training courses suck”

# 13th December 2003, 7:08 pm

Ward Takes On Microsoft. Let’s hope they don’t lock up all his cool ideas

# 13th December 2003, 6:42 pm

Spider-Man 2 blog templates (via) Smart blog related marketing

# 13th December 2003, 2:03 am

Night of the Image Map. Combining image replacement and absolute positioning to recreate the Image Map effect

# 13th December 2003, 2:01 am

CVS version control for web development (via) CVS tutorial targetted at groups maintaining a web site

# 13th December 2003, 1:47 am

Content management, the hard way (via) “Open source software ... pretty much guarantees lock-in to one vendor”—what’s this guy smoking?

# 13th December 2003, 12:05 am

The downside of building for IE only. If you start competing with Microsoft you’re instantly at a disadvantage

# 12th December 2003, 10:59 pm

Python to Perl Language Translation (via) Going the other way would be far more interesting

# 12th December 2003, 2:12 am

Rockin’ on without Microsoft (via) On the BSA: “We won’t do business with someone who treats us poorly.”

# 12th December 2003, 2:05 am

Mafia recruiting spammers, crackers (via) Cracking for spam gets serious

# 12th December 2003, 1:57 am

New Google results page design. Looks nice—it hasn’t hit our local cluster yet

# 11th December 2003, 7:34 pm

Shazam! Amazement personified

# 11th December 2003, 7:23 pm

Comparing Iterables (via) itertools trickery

# 11th December 2003, 6:11 pm

Extreme Programming FAQ (via) A good overview of XP

# 11th December 2003, 3:43 am

KJSEmbed Examples (via) Write KDE applications in Javascript and XML

# 11th December 2003, 3:43 am

Satan (Harpers.org) (via) “This is Satan, an entity engaged in war and a god. He is part of Gods, which is part of Supernatural Beings, which is part of Connections, which is part of Harpers.org”

# 11th December 2003, 3:18 am

xsdb (via) A new Python-powered object database

# 11th December 2003, 3:09 am

Python can run fast on the CLR (via) IronPython on .NET 70% faster than CPython(!)

# 11th December 2003, 3:07 am

OOP over the top. Using XML for data-driven programming

# 11th December 2003, 2:50 am / object-oriented-programming

The briQ (via) A full linux PC that fits in a 5.25" drive bay

# 11th December 2003, 2:35 am

Clagnut’s Blogmarks. Richard shares his bookmarklet

# 11th December 2003, 2:32 am

Ask The Expert -- r937.com. Rudy’s forgotten more about SQL than most developers learn in a lifetime

# 11th December 2003, 2:10 am

fan and ball (via) Another 3D shockwave game. Fun squared.

# 11th December 2003, 1:29 am

Snowfight 3D (via) 3D shockwave game—fun fun fun

# 11th December 2003, 1:29 am