Simon Willison’s Weblog

Contextual (via) I’ve been trying to figure out a sane way to replace Django’s settings.py global module with something that’s designed to be reconfigured at run-time. Contextual appears to be trying to solve exactly that problem.

# 12th May 2009, 1:19 pm / contextual, python, django, settings, globals

Global namespace pollution in IE. Another reason to avoid JavaScript global variables like the plague: IE creates a bunch of them for you which may well intefere with your own code.

# 10th October 2007, 10:10 am / internet-explorer, ie, javascript, globals