L’explosion atomique

Jeudi 19 août, 20h05 … le concert de Gojira au Pukkelpop vient de se terminer et j’ai mal partout.

D&D, la magie

Dernier article dans ma série “et si on créait un ‘donjon-like’ dans la veine OSR“. Cette fois-ci, c’est à la magie pour mon f&f.

D&D, les minions

Petit détour dans ma série “et si on créait un ‘donjon-like’ dans la veine OSR“: au lieu de mon article sur la magie, je reviens sur les monstres, en particulier les ‘minions’.

Django Packages

Another Django Dash 2010 project. This one aims to list all the Django applications/sites/tools available. It doesn’t have tags, but a “grid system” that gives a view of all the same kind of apps (blogs, cms, forums, security, static contents, etc.) with their respective characteristics.

Read the Docs

Read the Docs is one of the Django Dash 2010 project.

This web site aims to be “a place to create, host and browse docs”. It allows you to create sphinx documentation and to host (or mirror) them. Integration with your (D)VCS of choice (svn, git, hg) and your repo hosting of choice (google code, github, bitbucket).

Less Framework 2

A CSS framework that take into account various devices (desktop, netbook, ipad, iphone, …).

Looks neat and simple.

Tricks From Our Flash Friends: 3D in a 2D Context

Une liste de tutoriels super sympas sur comment utiliser les contextes 2D javascript (SVG, Canvas) pour faire de la fausse 3D.

Django and NoSQL Databases Revisited

A series of video talks and presentations on how to integrate your favorite web python framework (a.k.a. Dango) and your favorite NoSQL database (CouchDB, MongoDB, …).

Forgot Mac Password? How to Reset Your Mac Password (with or without CD)

Nice tip on how to reset the admin password on OS X, specially if you don’t have the insall cd/dvd at hand.

Hyde - A Python Static Website Generator

From the site: “Hyde is a static website generator powered by Python & Django.” It’s a Jekyll-like app that allows you to render a static web site based on text file templated with Django template and written in your favorite markup: markdown, textile, ReStructed, etc.

The source with some (light) doc are here: http://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde

Git for the lazy

A n00b rundown on how to use git.

Gitbox — Git client for Mac OS X

Un GUI pour git pour Mac OS X.

Page Objects in Python

Nice article on how to test web pages using Selenium.

TypeWith.me

Le successeur (au sens: reprenant le code source que Google a laisser) de EtherPad: un traitement de texte online permettant la collaboration en temps réel.

Diffable: only download the deltas

Ingenious JavaScript library that detects and download only the diff between two versions of a js file. Gives download time up to 25% faster.

(via Simon Willison)

WTFPL

Une nouvelle licence est arrivé. Après les licences GPL, LGPL, Apache, BSD, MIT, etc … voici la licence WTFPL: la “Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License ”.

Git and Mercurial Branching

Neat (and long) post on the difference between mercurial & git branches.

Supersize that Background, Please!

A super nifty (as always) article from A List Apart on how to adapt the full-page background of you web page to the client/window screen size.

HTML5 Reset

A nice reset (a bit like the famous Eric Meyer reset) but for html5. You get css code, html ‘templates’ with nice default, etc.

HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.

Another html5 reset/templates. Looks much more thorough.

Porting to Python 3 - A Guide

Armin Ronacher nous donne des pistes et de clés pour porter votre code python 2.X vers python 3.X, spécialement du point-de-vue textuel: str, bytes, unicode, I/O, etc.

Easier custom Model Manager Chaining

A neat solution to cut down boilerplate code for adding custom method to Model Manager in Django.

Grace

Grace, a nice C++library (seems easier to use than Boost).

Provisioning a new Ubuntu server for Django

Nice info dumping on how to setup a Django server on Unbuntu. Written for Rackspace, but should be fine for any VPS hosting environment.

25 Beautiful Image Styling Tutorials With CSS, jQuery

The title says all and it’s pretting much here so that I have a reference to this.

11 Photo Galleries Made by the Awesome CSS3

Once more, with galleries.