Simon Willison is an engineering director at Eventbrite, a Bay Area ticketing company working to bring the world together through live experiences.
Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010. He is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework, and has been blogging about web development and programming since 2002 at https://simonwillison.net/
Simon is the creator of Datasette, a new tool for publishing structured data as a web API. Datasette is based on his experiences working as a data journalist at the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
Simon Willison searches for the true meaning of Christmas, but settles on making a search engine for our articles on 24 ways. In doing he so demonstrates how a little bit of JavaScript, some open source tools and a sprinkling of database magic can make your festive dreams come true.
Simon Willison gets practical with microformats and the jQuery JavaScript library to demonstrate how data can be unobtrusively extracted from a page and plotted on a slippy map (like the ones we built the other day). See – it all links up. We think about this stuff.
Simon Willison gets down and dirty with JavaScript and explains why caution should be exercised in use of the eval() function. It may be the season of good will and all, but we can’t have our caution getting all flabby now, can we?
