Simon Willison’s Weblog

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

Sidewinder: Resolution. My cousin’s new album. Buy it and support fresh talent ;)

# 2nd December 2003, 3:26 am

The 2003 Perl Advent Calendar (via) I wish Python had one of these

# 2nd December 2003, 2:38 am

What the heck is: A type (via) More computer science fundamentals

# 1st December 2003, 8:58 pm

Metakit (via) Relational, object oriented, tree structured all in one database

# 30th November 2003, 7:14 pm

Well-Designed Weblogs. Each of these designs makes me seethe with jealousy

# 30th November 2003, 1:01 am

<LocationMatch> Directive. Is it wrong of me to get excited by this?

# 30th November 2003, 12:54 am

Disinfopedia (via) The encyclopedia of propaganda—not quite sure what to make of this one

# 30th November 2003, 12:50 am

Unusable Web. Keith’s superb web design guidelines

# 30th November 2003, 12:46 am

New IE Holes Discovered. 7 new vulnerabilities, all currently unpatched

# 30th November 2003, 12:45 am