Simon Willison's Weblog: sitepoint

FireScope

2009-02-05T22:51:34+00:00

Neat little Firefox / Firebug extension which adds a “Reference” tab showing documentation for the selected element from the comprehensive SitePoint Reference site.

Tags: css, documentation, extensions, firebug, firefox, firescope, html, reference, sitepoint

Antipatterns for sale

2009-01-02T10:48:17+00:00

Antipatterns for sale

Twply collected over 800 Twitter usernames and passwords (OAuth can’t arrive soon enough) and was promptly auctioned off on SitePoint to the highest bidder.

Tags: jeremy-keith, oauth, passwordantipattern, passwords, security, sitepoint, twitter

The Principles Of Project Management

2008-03-26T12:12:40+00:00

The Principles Of Project Management

Meri’s book has been published by SitePoint.

Via Drew McClellan

Tags: books, meriwilliams, project-management, sitepoint

The Art & Science of JavaScript

2008-01-12T19:05:27+00:00

The Art & Science of JavaScript

The JavaScript book I contributed to is now shipping! My chapter describes how to build a Flickr / Google Maps mashup entirely using client-side code (via JSON-P).

Tags: books, flickr, google-maps, javascript, json, jsonp, sitepoint, theartandscienceofjavascript, writing

JavaScript: It's Just Not Validation!

2008-01-01T12:07:30+00:00

JavaScript: It's Just Not Validation!

I like the explanation of JavaScript as offering input assistance rather than validation.

Tags: inputassistance, javascript, sitepoint, validation

Why Accessibility? Because It's Our Job!

2007-10-16T10:06:09+00:00

Why Accessibility? Because It's Our Job!

“A chef must care about health, a builder must care about safety, and we must care about accessibility.”

Tags: accessibility, brothercake, james-edwards, sitepoint

The Art & Science of JavaScript

2007-10-15T22:35:10+00:00

The Art & Science of JavaScript

My first author credit: I’m contributing a chapter to SitePoint’s next JavaScript tome.

Tags: books, javascript, publishing, sitepoint, theartandscienceofjavascript

Client Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 Applications

2007-10-05T23:29:32+00:00

Client Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 Applications

I recall that early versions of Netscape picked a random server from a hard-coded list each time a user clicked the “What’s New” button, back before server-side scaling techniques were well understood.

Via SitePoint

Tags: digitalweb, leizhu, load-balancing, netscape, scaling, sitepoint

Six Months Later: The New HTML Working Group

2007-05-10T23:23:09+00:00

Six Months Later: The New HTML Working Group

In case you haven’t been paying attention, Kevin Yank summarises some of the key discussions in the new HTML working group.

Tags: html, kevin-yank, sitepoint, whatwg

Stuart's book

2005-06-03T13:44:02+00:00

I meant to mention this earlier, but Stuart's book, DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM, has been published. I worked as a technical editor on the book, and I'm proud to have been associated with it. Don't worry about the hairy title (apparently you have to have DHTML in it or bookshops won't know where to put it / people won't know what it's about), the inside is pure gold. In their usual style, SitePoint have posted the first four chapters online for your perusal so you don't have to take my word for it, you can try it out for yourself.

Tags: books, javascript, sitepoint, stuart-langridge

I've sold out!

2004-02-04T05:54:35+00:00

What can I say - the lure of the mighty dollar proved too much. I've just made my first post to my new client-side scripting blog over at SitePoint, as a paid columnist.

I'll answer the most obvious question straight away: I'm not going to stop writing here. My SitePoint blog is a subject-focused blog covering client-side web development - CSS, Javascript, HTML and their role in modern web site creation. This blog will continue to host my thoughts on other subjects - mainly server-side stuff, but also general programming, web related rants and anything else that strikes my interest. Oh, and bashing Microsoft, naturally ;)

I'm a big fan of strictly subject-driven blogs, so it's going to be fun working on one right from the start. Lambda the Ultimate (programming languages), Column Two (content and knowledge management), the Daily Python-URL and Adrian Holovaty's online journalism blog are all great examples of blogs with a topical focus, and I hope to take my SitePoint blog in a similarly focused direction.

Incidentally, the blogging system at SitePoint has only just been launched and evidently there are still some issues to iron out. I know the site doesn't validate, and I hope to work with SitePoint to resolve some of the other markup and Javascript issues I've spotted. I hope to write up some of the problems and solutions on the blog itself in coming weeks.

Tags: blogging, sitepoint

XML security on SitePoint

2002-11-30T22:02:54+00:00

Getting Started with XML Security is a SitePoint article of epic proportions. I had never really looked at any of the XML security applications but this article appears to cover the lot.

Tags: security, sitepoint, xml

Optimising Javascript

2002-08-14T00:07:54+00:00

A thread on SitePoint lead me to these two excellent tutorials: Javascript Optimisation and Tackling JavaScript strict warnings.

Tags: javascript, sitepoint