Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Fabled “Five Eights” of J2EE Availability (via) J2EE complexity leads to poor stability

# 5th December 2003, 10 pm

Simon Willison done different. An attractive redesign suggestion

# 5th December 2003, 4:26 am

Antilog. Interactive querying of HTTP log files, via Python

# 5th December 2003, 4:21 am

DTML in Zwiki pages. A Wiki you can reprogram on the fly sounds like a pretty neat toy

# 4th December 2003, 10:53 pm

How to Design (Declarative) Programming Languages (via) Language design 101

# 4th December 2003, 10:05 pm

Do What I Mean (dwim) (via) One for the tool box

# 4th December 2003, 5:18 pm

The Importance of Good Copy. We should learn from direct marketers... <shudder>

# 4th December 2003, 5:16 pm

Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow (via) Nice use of CSS as well

# 4th December 2003, 5:15 pm

HTMLTemplate. Another Python XHTML-to-object structure templating system

# 4th December 2003, 5:14 pm

Mad Skateboarding Skillz. Signs of a mis-spent youth

# 4th December 2003, 4:43 am

On Search: XML. Tim Bray on search and XML? You know it’s going to be good.

# 4th December 2003, 1:54 am / tim-bray, xml

Will IE even be better in Longhorn? Off topic doom and gloom on css-discuss

# 4th December 2003, 1:51 am

Brief Guide to Regular Expressions (via) Regular expressions for everyone else

# 4th December 2003, 1:48 am

Python vs PHP. He’s not the messiah! He’s a very naughty boy.

# 2nd December 2003, 11:19 pm

Skip This Rant and Read Shirky (via) More metadata challenges

# 2nd December 2003, 11:15 pm

The mystery of why only four properties apply to table columns. More deep and gruesome CSS theory from Hixie

# 2nd December 2003, 11:14 pm

Collective Ownership of Code and Text. Ward Cunningham interview, part II

# 2nd December 2003, 11:14 pm / ward-cunningham

A Tale of Two (Linux) Cities (via) Local government and Open Source

# 2nd December 2003, 8:55 pm

Dating Design Patterns (via) Reusable solutions for a complex system

# 2nd December 2003, 8:54 pm / design-patterns

Experiences of Using PHP in Large Websites. Global function namespace + oversimplification = trouble

# 2nd December 2003, 8:52 pm / php

Netstrings. Easy, secure method for transmitting strings over a network

# 2nd December 2003, 8:49 pm

Hire Dave Shea. You know you want to

# 2nd December 2003, 7:37 pm

Dicts from lists (via) Neat Python one-liner using 2.3’s extended slices

# 2nd December 2003, 4:44 pm

radiac.net Christmas decorations. Thankfully Firebird doesn’t play the midi files

# 2nd December 2003, 4:15 am

userland can access Linux kernel memory. Major local root exploit (and nothing to do with Dave Winer)—patch those boxen

# 2nd December 2003, 4:12 am

CSS Centering—fun for all! A good overview of a common gotcha

# 2nd December 2003, 4:08 am / css

FetchYahoo! Like Gotmail, for Yahoo

# 2nd December 2003, 4:08 am

Sortable Tables, with colour. An extension to Stuart’s sorttable.js

# 2nd December 2003, 4:07 am

A New Website for Harper’s Magazine. Paul Ford’s semantic web publishing system gets a commercial outing

# 2nd December 2003, 4:06 am

Dynamic or batch publishing? (via) A management-friendly guide to static vs dynamic

# 2nd December 2003, 4:05 am