Simon Willison’s Weblog

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

When to put the web into Web Services. aka “What’s SOAP actually useful for?”

# 11th December 2003, 1:10 am / soap

The Poetry of Programming (via) More on the Master of Fine Arts in Software

# 11th December 2003, 12:59 am

Link dumps. I never realised how popular these things were

# 11th December 2003, 12:58 am

Writing Efficient CSS (via) I like shorthand properties more for saving typing than for saving bandwidth

# 11th December 2003, 12:54 am / css

Sam Ruby: Learning to Rest. Every time Sam talks about Rest my eyes begin to cross over

# 11th December 2003, 12:52 am / sam-ruby

We will not ship shit. (via) Words to live by

# 11th December 2003, 12:51 am

Linkrot. A personal alternative to the Google cache would make a fun project

# 11th December 2003, 12:50 am

web-sniffer.net (via) A welcome replacement for Mozilla’s demised web-sniffer tool

# 11th December 2003, 12:48 am

Breadth first traversal of a tree. Mind bending usage of yield. Depth-first traversal is left as an exercise for the reader.

# 11th December 2003, 12:47 am