Ma.gnolia: Ville Säävuori's Bookmarks

Fabric

Uninen — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:20:03 PDT

"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."

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Tags: fabric, automation, deployment, python

The Truth About Unicode In Python

Uninen — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:47:14 PDT

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

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Tags: python, unicode, merkistöt

Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers

Uninen — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:46:27 PDT

One word: beauty.

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Tags: blogging, women

Django snippets: Command to dump data as a python script

Uninen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:27:42 PDT

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

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Tags: django, dumpdata, management, python

ratproxy

Uninen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:26:06 PDT

"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."

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Tags: ratproxy, security, auditing, xsrf, xss, testing, proxy

Graphite - Enterprise Scalable Realtime Graphing

Uninen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:19:39 PDT

"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."

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Tags: graphite, graphing, stats

puppet

Uninen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:14:57 PDT

"Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks"

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Tags: automation, sysadmin, puppet

Puutarhajuhlat ja lyhtyjä sytytellään...

Uninen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:02:48 PDT

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

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Tags: blogit, kaverit, elämä

The Cron Commandments

Uninen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:44:09 PDT

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Tags: ubnix, cron, sysadmin

CASSETTE FROM MY EX

Uninen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:33:11 PDT

"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 :)

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Tags: cassette, mixtape, music, musiikki, art, taide

PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String Of Bizarre Protests

Uninen — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:41:44 PDT

"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."

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Tags: peta, protest, django, python, hacking, funny, jacobkaplanmoss

Importing emlx messages into Apple Mail 2.0

Uninen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:39:09 PDT

"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.

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Tags: mail, mailapp, emlx, importing

Caffeine

Uninen — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:54:03 PDT

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

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Tags: caffeine, macosx, software

Camouflage

Uninen — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:52:41 PDT

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

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Tags: camouflage, macosx, presenting, software

python-spidermonkey

Uninen — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:24:40 PDT

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

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Tags: python, javascript, spidermonkey

DNS Made Easy

Uninen — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:22:43 PDT

"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.

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Tags: dns, sysadmin

Minimal

Uninen — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:20:48 PDT

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

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Tags: ryantomayko, minimalism, design, jamesbennet

The Machine That Changed the World

Uninen — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:34:58 PDT

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!

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Tags: video, andybaio, retro, history, torrent

Updated jQuery Bookmarklet

Uninen — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:32:27 PDT

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

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Tags: jquery, bookmarklet, jash

Reputation Parent - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

Uninen — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:52:57 PDT

"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."

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Tags: yahoo, designpattern, reputation, community

Capistrano 2.4.0

Uninen — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:28:18 PDT

`gem install capistrano`

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Tags: capistrano, releasenotes

textmate-missingdrawer

Uninen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:15:06 PDT

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

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Tags: textmate, plugin, jannisleidel

Backing Winds: How to Create Professional HDR Images

Uninen — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:11:13 PDT

Simple howto for Photoshop CS2+ owners.

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Tags: hdr, photography, photoshop, valokuvaus

UK university lectures on iTunes

Uninen — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:09:49 PDT

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.

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Tags: uk, bbc, itunes, education, opiskelu, university

Odtwriter for Docutils

Uninen — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:04:22 PDT

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

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Tags: python, docutils, odf, openoffice, rst, markup, writing, kirjoittaminen

Torrent Editor

Uninen — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:01:00 PDT

"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."

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Tags: torrent, p2p, bittorrent

Letter to a young procrastinator

Uninen — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:20:25 PDT

"Stop resisting and embrace your procrastination."

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Tags: slate, procastination, viivyttely

Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

Uninen — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:29:37 PDT

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.

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Tags: design, yahoo, ui, omnigraffle, photoshop, templates, creativecommons