Simon Willison’s Weblog

OS recommendations for ATMs. Apparently Windows XP is an “open platform”.

# 26th November 2003, 5:48 am

Diebold ATMs hit by Nachi Worm. Fascinating anonymous comment on /. about cracking ATMs

# 26th November 2003, 5:28 am

XML-RPC Progress. I’ll try to blog this properly tomorrow

# 26th November 2003, 5:02 am / xml-rpc

Weihnachtsmann Weitwurf. I can’t seem to beat 350.4

# 26th November 2003, 2:54 am

cleaning up html snippets. Another way of fixing dubious HTML with Python

# 26th November 2003, 2:44 am

DB_File. Perl5 access to Berkeley DB

# 26th November 2003, 2:38 am

Python Bindings for BerkeleyDB 3.x. More Berkeley DB goodness

# 26th November 2003, 2:38 am

Creating an SVG Wiki (via) If only the Mozilla SVG project would produce the goods

# 26th November 2003, 1:02 am / svg

XHTML and Accessibility in ASP.NET Whidbey (via) A definite improvement, but __VIEWSTATE still gives me the willies

# 25th November 2003, 11:13 pm / accessibility, xhtml

Unix “find” command mini-tutorial. The most useful thing I’ve learnt all week

# 25th November 2003, 9:11 pm

Colour tools. A roundup of tools that help create colour schemes.

# 25th November 2003, 7:39 pm

How Regexes Work (via) They’re just simplified syntax for constructing a state machine

# 25th November 2003, 12:27 am

Slashdot trolling phenomena. Natalie Portman, naked and petrified with hot grits

# 24th November 2003, 8:54 pm / slashdot

Stream of Consciousness (via) An interpretation of the creative process. With a cute cat.

# 24th November 2003, 6:36 pm

Amazon.com: Number Ones (via) More Amazon recommendation humour

# 24th November 2003, 4:27 pm

Clive Soley MP (via) Another blogging MP—this one’s Labour MP for Ealing Acton & Shepherds Bush

# 24th November 2003, 4:22 pm / blogging

Why ALA’s “JavaScript Image Replacement” Sucks. Some useful Javascript tips amongst the vitriol

# 24th November 2003, 1:53 am

Open Source Everywhere (via) Software is just the beginning

# 24th November 2003, 1:33 am

Microsoft Inductive User Interface Guidelines (via) Lessons learnt from web applications?

# 24th November 2003, 1:01 am

Visualizing Complexity. I need to get over my irrational fear of diagrams

# 24th November 2003, 12:59 am

Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards (via) Slashdot is a great learning exercise for practising CSS

# 24th November 2003, 12:58 am / slashdot

User Interface Design for Web Applications. I haven’t read it yet, but I liked the title

# 24th November 2003, 12:57 am

Snarls of defiance. Great rant about commercial programming and boring suit friendly technology

# 24th November 2003, 12:56 am

System Failure and Recovery Practice (via) rm -rf / in a sandbox

# 24th November 2003, 12:01 am

Jonathan Caves: Adventures in Visual C (via) Who’d have thought Microsoft would have all the best in-house bloggers?

# 23rd November 2003, 11:59 pm / c, microsoft

Rekall press release (via) Open source alternative to Access

# 23rd November 2003, 11:57 pm

UserModeLinux—Educational Technology Wiki (via) Includes a list of cheap UML hosts—$15/month for a virtual dedicated server

# 23rd November 2003, 11:56 pm

Numerical Python. Some day I really ought to get this installed and figure it out

# 23rd November 2003, 11:55 pm / python, numpy

Python Natural Language Toolkit (via) Yet another reason Python at University is a great idea

# 23rd November 2003, 11:54 pm / nltk, python

FunFormKit Quick Start. You wouldn’t believe how similar this is to a system we’ve just created at work

# 23rd November 2003, 11:53 pm