Simon Willison’s Weblog

ASP.NET MVC Framework. This looks pretty good. It includes clean URL support that’s very similar to how Django does things (with a nice alternative syntax for developers who don’t like regular expressions).

# 1:45 pm / aspnet, django, microsoft, mvc, scott-guthrie, urls

If It Looks Like a Cow, Swims Like a Dolphin and Quacks Like a Duck, It Must Be Enterprise Software. Interesting discussion about why enterprise software tends to completely suck from an end-user point of view.

# 1:51 pm / design, enterprise, enterprisesoftware, khoivinh, usability

OpenStreetMap on the iPhone! Via an ingenious hack. The Google Maps iPhone client caches downloaded tiles using SQLite—to display your own custom tiles, you just need to dump them straight in to the “cache”.

# 3:30 pm / google-maps, iphone, mikel-maron, openstreetmap, sqlite

EventScripts 2.0, now with Python. EventScripts is a plugin that lets you write scripts to customise dedicated servers for Valve’s Source engine games (Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2 and the like). Version 2.0 adds support for Python 2.5 as an embedded scripting language.

# 11:57 pm / counterstrike, eventscripts, halflife2, python, source, teamfortress2, tf2, valve