2 month ago
Simon Willison : Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it - Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it. Aral Balkan describes a number of critical issues with App Engine. If you’re considering building something serious on it you need to read this article; I’ve run in to several of the
philgyford : Why Google App Engine is broken and what Google must do to fix it. at Aral Balkan - My word, it sounds quite useless really. (via Simon Willison)
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3 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media - Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media: congrats Simon!
wearehugh : Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media | Media | guardian.co.uk - so awesome
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Simon Willison : James Bennett: Why HTML - James Bennett: Why HTML. Finally, somewhere to point people when they ask why I avoid XHTML that’s a bit more up to date than Hixie’s rant from 2002.
philgyford : Why HTML - More recent arguments for why to use HTML rather than XHTML. (via Simon Willison)
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5 month ago
deusx : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - "I would say that avoiding the temptation to write, and outlining in fanatical detail, is a very high-value activity for writing a book that’s hierarchically organized like this. "
Jeremy Zawodny : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?: 'You can cut your work down by about 75% if you keep working on more and more detailed outlines, long past the point you think you ought to start “writing.”' True. Lots of good stuff in that
Simon Willison : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?. Plenty of food for thought from the lead author of the new edition of High Performance MySQL. It’s amazing how Word is still an integral part of most technical book projects despite its obvious inadequacies
philgyford : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - Great write-up of what it was really like to write a big complicated book, managed by rather disorganised people. (via Simon Willison)
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6 month ago
Simon Willison : Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts - Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts. Brian Suda’s Google Charts tutorial on 24 ways has proved invaluable for figuring out how to handle grid lines and axis labels, both of which are pretty unintuitive (and not hugely helped by the official do
philgyford : 24 ways: Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts - A good guide on how to use Google Charts. (via Simon Willison)
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7 month ago
Simon Willison : Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery - Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery. The online handout for the tutorial I gave this morning at XTech.
Rod Begbie : Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery - Some great tips from Simon Willison on using JQuery effectively. #
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8 month ago
Linkorama : WikiNear - A FireEagle/Wikipedia mashup
factoryjoe : wikinear.com - Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: wikipedia, fire eagle, location, Simon willison
deusx : wikinear.com - "wikinear.com shows Wikipedia pages near you, based on your location according to Yahoo! Fire Eagle. The site is optimised for use on a mobile phone."
philgyford : Wikinear.com - Awesome little app by Simon Willison that shows you places near you from Wikipedia, using Yahoo! Fire Eagle. Makes me want an iPhone.
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8 month ago
plasticbag : Simon Willison's knocked up Wikinear, which is a really simple and classy Fire Eagle app to show you stuff near your current location. - Really interesting set of things going on here - stores your auth information in a cookie, which is quite classy. No need to register at all. Shows you your five nearest geotagged places in Wikipedia.
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Simon Willison's Wikinear, Wikipedia pages near your current location - demonstrates Fire Eagle and OAuth, mixed with Wikipedia, GeoNames, and the new Google Maps Static API
Linkorama : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Under the hood the site combines a number of interesting technologies: OAuth, Fire Eagle, GeoNames and the new Google Static Maps API.
factoryjoe : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Brilliant writeup about how Simon implemented wikinear using OAuth, etc. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oauth, fire eagle, wikinear
Rod Begbie : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Simon Willison knocks out a quick prototype showing Wikipedia articles related to your current location, a masterpiece of mashuppery. #
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9 month ago
philgyford : Extenuating Circumstances – SXSW 2008: Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together - Good notes on a SXSW panel. I wonder where I'd fit in, but also wonder why I'm doing all this theatre nonsense when reading stuff like this makes me so excited.
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9 month ago
Simon Willison : Equidistant Objects with CSS - Equidistant Objects with CSS. Handy tip; I needed to do this recently and ended up setting everything using pixels. This works much better.
jonhicks : Equidistant Objects with CSS - It should be easy, but isn't. Fortunately, this article has a solution!
philgyford : Equidistant Objects with CSS - CSS-Tricks - Spacing things out horizontally with CSS. (via Simon Willison)
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12 month ago
Simon Willison : DebugBar - DebugBar. Suggested at BarCamp London 3 as a useful tool for developing with IE; apparently includes a great JavaScript debugger.
philgyford : DebugBar - IE extension for web developer : DOM inspector, Javascript debugger, HTTP headers viewer, Cookies viewer - Looks handy for those times one has to painfully test things in Internet Explorer. (via Simon Willison)
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13 month ago
Simon Willison : Cruciforum - Cruciforum. Stuart’s new PHP forum—single script, stores threads as static HTML on the filesystem (no database), installation is a one-step process. [via]
philgyford : Cruciforum: crucially simple - A very simple discussion forum that involves uploading a single file to your website. (via Simon Willison again)
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14 month ago
Simon Willison : Information Freeway - Information Freeway. Really lovely interface to Open Street Map, sadly suffering from a horribly vague name and almost no publicity at all. [via]
philgyford : The Information Freeway :: A map of the planet - A very nice viewer for the Open Street Map data. I had no idea they had so much, and it looks gorgeous close-up. (via Simon Willison)
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14 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : Get Lat Lon: Find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map. - Someone please clone a few hundred Simon Willisons. I have a feeling we’ll need their giant brains when the robots attack. ∞
Simon Willison : Get Lat Lon - Get Lat Lon. I finally got fed up of hunting around for simple latitude/longitude tools when messing around with mapping APIs, so I built my own with a memorable URL. I plan to add new features as and when I need them.
philgyford : Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map - Wonderfully simple Google Maps tool by Simon Willison for doing what it says. Very handy for me for Pepys' Diary.
Richard Rutter : Get Lat Lon - Find the latitude and longitude (and local time) of a point on a map..
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16 month ago
Richard Rutter : jQuery for JavaScript programmers - Great intro from Lil Willy.
joshua : jQuery for JavaScript programmers
philgyford : jQuery for JavaScript programmers - What it says, by Simon Willison. For next time I delve into jQuery. (via Yoz and Blech)
deusx : jQuery for JavaScript programmers - "I’m going to try to explain why jQuery should be of interest to experienced programmers as well."
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19 month ago
Rod Begbie : Turn your Django application in to an OpenID consumer - Simon Willison's OpenID consuming middleware for Django. I'll probably have a stab at mixing this with my blog comments shortly. #
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21 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : OpenID on WordPress.com - OpenID on WordPress.com: Nice job, Simon!
Simon Willison : OpenID on WordPress.com - OpenID on WordPress.com. My first project launch as a freelancer. You can now use your WordPress.com blog as an OpenID.
jimray : OpenID comes to WordPress.com - Use your WordPress login as an OpenID now
plasticbag : Now you can use your Wordpress ID as an OpenID. This is a cool thing. - Bloody typical of that Willison chap to be behind it as well. Come back to work, Simon. I'm really bored and I miss you.
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21 month ago
plasticbag : A guy uses a bunch of items of clothing and sleeping bags to make himself look like sundry animals - I need Simon Willison to do the one on the bottom right. Too funny.
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21 month ago
Andy Baio : Six cool things you can build with OpenID - great list; the biggest hurdle is getting developers to understand what OpenID isn't
wearehugh : Six cool things you can build with OpenID
plasticbag : Simon Willison writes about six cool things you guys out there could go and build right now using OpenID - I'm particularly interested in the SSO problems inside firewalls. This seems like a highly elegant idea. Use software that supports OpenID and then constrain it to your local provider. Tada! You have integrated SSO across multiple internal services...
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22 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : idproxy.net - use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID - idproxy.net - use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID: "idproxy.net lets you use your Yahoo! account to sign in to sites that support the OpenID standard"
plasticbag : Simon Willison has pulled out another OpenID wonder from his hat - idproxy allows you to login to any OpenID supporting site using your Yahoo ID - Really nice this one. As I understand it, it uses the BBAuth stuff and packages it up and translates it into the mechanisms of OpenID. In principle this means that there are now millions of registered OpenID users in the world...
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Upcoming photos from Simon Willison and the Order of the Phoenix have been released - I'm sorry, but really, my poor old colleague is going to have endless trouble with this one...
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23 month ago
Rod Begbie : How to use OpenID (a screencast) - Simon Willison does a screencast explaining the howtofores of OpenID. I had only a basic grasp of it before (despite implementing the plugin on this here blog), but now I understand the magic of it, I'm a convert. [via] #
Jeremy Zawodny : How to use OpenID (a screencast) - How to use OpenID (a screencast): "OpenID lets you log in to different sites without having to create a new username and password for each one. This screencast demonstrates OpenID in action." Simon does a good job of showing off OpenID.
Khoi Vinh : Simon Willison on How to Use OpenID - An informative screencast.
jimray : How to use OpenID screencast - A few months old, but a new one for me. Nicely done.
Linkorama : How to use OpenID (a screencast) - OpenID lets you log in to different sites without having to create a new username and password for each one. This screencast demonstrates OpenID in action.
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24 month ago
plasticbag : My lovely colleague Simon Willison has gone and finally relaunched his weblog in Django - I know weblog redesign posts are a bit 1999 but still, it's really clear and well organised with a range of innovative little UI and archiving touches. Worth a look.
Rod Begbie : Finally powered by Django - Simon Willison's shifted his blog onto a Django-based platform. I think I might have a crack at this myself -- The limitations of MovableType (not least the fact that I don't know Perl terribly well) keep biting me these days. Could be fun to roll-my-ow #
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26 month ago
joshua : Graphing requests with Tamper Data
philgyford : Simon Willison: Graphing requests with Tamper Data - Very nice thing found by Simon - a graph showing when elements of a webpage load, and how long they take. (via Daring Fireball)
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