Monthly Shaarli
June, 2009
Share is an experiment in designing a networked programming tool for distributed communities of practice. It is an IDE that automatically shares all the code you write with everyone else that is using Share, and keeps track of how that code is used.
For this exercise, I’ll be adding pymunk (Python bindings for the Chipmonk physics library) to NodeBox
The newly launched search engine Bing has a simple restful API. We have created a thin Python wrapper over this API, which allows to query the Bing servers in a very pythonic way.
using Xorg bitmap fonts
CleverCSS is a small markup language for CSS inspired by Python that can be used to build a style sheet in a clean and structured way. In many ways it's cleaner and more powerful than CSS2 is.
getting Awesome 3.3 for Jaunty
the quirkiness of the number 142857
This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of vim -- insert mode, command mode, loading and saving files, etc. It is intended to help vi novices develop their skills so that they can use vi efficiently.
fixing Ralink kernel module in eee1000 and other laptops with the rt2860 driver
a poll voting example app
This document recommends best practice for putting free software0 experience on your resumé. It is primarily aimed at college students or people who have not yet had a first job in software.
Frequently Asked Questions about the SIL Open Font License (OFL)
Combining the cuteness of LOLCODE and the cuddliness of Python
I’d like to believe that there’s money to be made with this whole open source culture. I’ve come to realize that is what I want to do with my life; I should say, this is what we want to do with our company – be good and make profit at the same time. And we don’t have to be Google to do it.
This document explains HTML templating with the Sphinx documentation system. Sphinx is a tool for converting restructured text documentation into presentation formats like HTML or LaTeX.
Do whatever you want. Don't learn it if you feel it's too much effort just for nothing. Learn emacs instead. Or stay in your IDE using a lousy editor. Whatever. But in any case, don't ever claim again that those 'vi guys are nutheads' - I hope that I have succeeded in showing you why they (we) stick to it, and you should at least be able to understand its power, even if you prefer to stay away from it.
This is a small example shows how ajax can be done in Django with jQuery. The form will post the text to the server and Django will handle the text posted then response according the result.
doing away with old-school user profiles
Over ninety percent of artists and musicians do not make their living from their recording contracts or art sales, so there is no easy life that copyleft will ruin. That said, every little helps. Reputation is the key, and copyleft does not harm reputation. Easy access to your work may even help your reputation.
Chef is a programming language in which programs look like recipes.
We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.
Yes, the way your professor explained FSM makes them much harder than they are in practice. Alright, just forget about that because they aren’t really that complicated.