Ma.gnolia: Ville Säävuori's Bookmarks

Fabric

2008-07-17T16:20:03-07:00

"Fabric is a simple pythonic remote deployment tool. It is designed to upload files to, and run shell commands on, a number of servers in parallel or serially."

The Truth About Unicode In Python

2008-07-13T07:47:14-07:00

I didn't know there were so many issues around unicode in Python.

Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers

2008-07-13T07:46:27-07:00

One word: beauty.

Django snippets: Command to dump data as a python script

2008-07-10T05:27:42-07:00

A handy script for dumping data from Django database as a Python script.

ratproxy

2008-07-10T05:26:06-07:00

"A semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool, optimized for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environments. Detects and prioritizes broad classes of security problems, such as dynamic cross-site trust model considerations, script inclusion issues, content serving problems, insufficient XSRF and XSS defenses, and much more."

Graphite - Enterprise Scalable Realtime Graphing

2008-07-10T05:19:39-07:00

"Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system. As a user, you write an application that collects numeric time-series data that you are interested in graphing, and send it to Graphite's processing backend, carbon, which stores the data in Graphite's specialized database. The data can then be visualized through graphite's web interfaces."

puppet

2008-07-10T05:14:57-07:00

"Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks"

Puutarhajuhlat ja lyhtyjä sytytellään...

2008-07-10T05:02:48-07:00

Reetta kokosi kesäisiä huomioitaan blogimerkinnäksi joka nousi välittömästi sen luettuani kaikkien eikojen suosikkimerkintöjeni top-listalle. Sääi, että merkintää ei voi kommentoida.

The Cron Commandments

2008-07-10T03:44:09-07:00

CASSETTE FROM MY EX

2008-07-10T03:33:11-07:00

"They were into you, so they made you a tape. Today you don't have a cassette player, but you still can't toss that mix. We share the stories and the soundtrack to your earliest loves." I abslutely love the idea. (And mixtapes :)

PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String Of Bizarre Protests

2008-06-23T06:41:44-07:00

"They’re all naked, and these chicks don’t shave anything!" How scary is that :) From the comments: "Only [PETA] can get a computer language mixed up with an animal."

Importing emlx messages into Apple Mail 2.0

2008-06-18T00:39:09-07:00

"There is no easy way to import messages in the new 10.4 format (individual XML documents with the emlx extension) into Mail.app. It is not one of the options in Mail 2.0's Import menu. But you can put deleted messages back (if you have them in a backup) or add news ones and force Mail to reindex them." Saved about a thousand emails today via these instructions. Mail.app in Tiger sucks ass.

Caffeine

2008-06-16T02:54:03-07:00

Caffeine is a tiny program that prevents your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.

Camouflage

2008-06-16T02:52:41-07:00

Small app for hiding icons from the Mac OS X desktop.

python-spidermonkey

2008-06-15T05:24:40-07:00

A Python implementation of a JavaScript engine based on Mozilla Spidermonkey.

DNS Made Easy

2008-06-15T05:22:43-07:00

"DNS Made Easy solves all of your DNS and Mail needs. If you are looking for Primary DNS, Secondary DNS, dynamic DNS, or email hosting then DNS Made Easy is your solution." Found via James Bennetts colophon page. I want to try this myseld.

Minimal

2008-06-15T05:20:48-07:00

James redesigns his site in the footsteps of Ryan Tomayko. I love it.

The Machine That Changed the World

2008-06-14T15:34:58-07:00

Fifth and last episode of Machine That Changed the World -series about the history of computing. Definitely worth to watch all five of these. Thank you very much Simon Willison, Andy Baio and others for getting these online!

Updated jQuery Bookmarklet

2008-06-14T15:32:27-07:00

A must have tool for any non-Firefox browser. Use similar tools like Jash with this and get almost Firebug-like JS-console- experience.

Reputation Parent - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

2008-06-14T14:52:57-07:00

"A person participating in a social structure expects to develop a reputation and hopes for insight into the reputations of others, but each designed model of participation and reputation embodies its own set of biases and incentive structures. Balancing these forces determines in large measure the success or failure of a social system."

Capistrano 2.4.0

2008-06-14T04:28:18-07:00

`gem install capistrano`

textmate-missingdrawer

2008-06-12T03:15:06-07:00

A Textmate plugin which "provides Xcode-like project window interface without drawer."

Backing Winds: How to Create Professional HDR Images

2008-06-08T12:11:13-07:00

Simple howto for Photoshop CS2+ owners.

UK university lectures on iTunes

2008-06-08T12:09:49-07:00

Three European universities begin putting free lecture material on to iTunes U. I bet hell freezes over before any of the Finnish universities join in.

Odtwriter for Docutils

2008-06-02T18:04:22-07:00

Translates reST (reStructuredText) into a Open Document Format .odt file.

Torrent Editor

2008-06-02T06:01:00-07:00

"Easily edit torrents online. Add, change and remove trackers. Change a torrent's directories and filenames. Prepare a torrent to post to a new tracker."

Letter to a young procrastinator

2008-06-01T14:20:25-07:00

"Stop resisting and embrace your procrastination."

Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

2008-06-01T04:29:37-07:00

Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit is a series of UI templates for easy mockups. Version 1.0 includes for example ad units, UI controls and iPhone UI elements. Licensed under a Creative Commons license.

Safari Carpet Bomb

2008-05-31T13:56:41-07:00

"I recently communicated 3 security issues in the Safari browser to Apple."

django-databasetemplateloader

2008-05-29T23:52:40-07:00

Load templates from your database. All templates are editable via the admin interface.