Simon Willison’s Weblog

Cory Doctorow switching to Ubuntu. Another high profile defector.

# 30th June 2006, 12:43 pm

CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down. Ouch.

# 30th June 2006, 8:43 am

Python Web Developer Appliance. A VMWare virtual machine with Python web developer frameworks pre-installed for you.

# 29th June 2006, 6:58 pm / python

A Week in Chicago with Rails, Perl, and Django. I love Nat’s observations about Java programmers who discover dynamic languages.

# 29th June 2006, 6:21 pm

Javaref.com. Sane Java API browsing.

# 29th June 2006, 2:12 pm

Greenpeace goes open source in collaboration push. Django in the news.

# 29th June 2006, 11:40 am

Wrapping Text With Regular Expressions. Neat regexp trick.

# 29th June 2006, 11:12 am

Speeding up Prototype’s Selector. Really smart getElementsBySelector optimisations.

# 28th June 2006, 7:16 pm

Exploring the Google Web Toolkit. Covers all the reasons I’m uninterested in GWT.

# 28th June 2006, 4:14 pm

Safari gets a JavaScript debugger. Great news, especially considering the tricky nature of Safari bugs. Opera needs one too.

# 28th June 2006, 11:48 am

Safari fragment identifier history demo. Brilliant hack, but iframe/scrollTop to detect the back button is a bit too hairy for me.

# 27th June 2006, 11:12 pm

Media in Transition Conference 2006. German Web 2.0 conference with some interesting speakers. Sadly this clashes with dConstruct.

# 27th June 2006, 7:21 pm

Office IU Blog: Let’s Talk About Customization. 98% of people never customised their Office toolbars.

# 27th June 2006, 4:21 pm

StreetWars London. “A 3 week long, 24/7, watergun assassination tournament.”

# 27th June 2006, 2:57 pm

The Government Says. New from My Society: collected government press releases.

# 27th June 2006, 2:47 pm

Essentials, 2006 edition. 2006 must be the year of Linux on the desktop!

# 26th June 2006, 9:07 pm

How to use Django with FastCGI. The best FastCGI documentation I’ve seen for any platform.

# 26th June 2006, 8:26 pm

Reuse-in-the-large is an unsolved problem: Why I left OpenACS for Rails. Fascinating insight in to the reason frameworks that do less do more.

# 26th June 2006, 2:55 pm

punupgeek.com on Active Resource. Looks like 37 signals might be looking in to scaling across multiple servers using web services.

# 26th June 2006, 11:12 am / 37-signals, activeresource, rails, scaling

Choosing your CSS techniques. For the record, I favour redundant markup over CSS hacks.

# 23rd June 2006, 1:03 pm

JavaScript Gotchas. Another example of why ID indexing was a dumb idea.

# 23rd June 2006, 10:12 am

Django on Windows HOWTO. Fantastically detailed instructions.

# 22nd June 2006, 10:26 pm

Mac OS X Hacking Tools. Useful tools built in to the OS.

# 22nd June 2006, 7:13 pm

Star Wars Transformers Deluxe Millennium Falcon. Nerdgasm.

# 22nd June 2006, 11:33 am

Star Wars Transformers. Consensus on whether these are Awesome or A Bit Wrong has yet to be formed.

# 22nd June 2006, 11:32 am

A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes. Case study plus source code.

# 22nd June 2006, 10:55 am

Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle. 100 lines of Python illustrating some key concepts in AI.

# 22nd June 2006, 10:46 am / peter-norvig, python, ai

Cerealizer (via) A safe pickle for Python.

# 20th June 2006, 11:49 pm

Interoperability and DRM are Mutually Exclusive. A beautiful indictment of the insanity of DRM interoperability.

# 20th June 2006, 8:28 pm

I’m on the Oxfam website! Fourth back on the left.

# 20th June 2006, 10:39 am