mynt - A static blog generator

Mynt, another “static blog generator”. In python. Can generate archive pages as well as tags pages automatically.

Django Hosting Roundup: (Ep.io vs Gondor.io vs DotCloud vs AppHosted vs DjangoZoom) Who wins?

A interesting article from Ken Cochrane that sums up his foray into various Django hosting (ep.io, gondor, etc.).

There is a hosting matrix with feature sets. And Ken gives various awards to help you chose: most features, fastest deployment, etc.

dochub | Instant Documentation Search

Dochub is an instant documentation search for CSS 3, HTML, jQuery, PHP, Javascript and the DOM.

Neat.

Fluid Images

Again, A List Apart has a great article on web design. This time, it’s all about fluid images: image that rescale based on the window size.

Timepicker for jQuery

A nice google calendar like time picker.

Muntjac

Muntjac is a GUI toolkit in Python that can be run locally or on the web (and even on Google App Engine).

Getting Started with Sublime Text 2

Sublime Text 2 est un éditeur texte vraiment bien fait et de plus au look magnifique (ok, super subjectif, mais quand même), en partie compatible avec les Packages de TextMate. De plus, il est “cross-platform” (Linux, Windows, OS X).

Ce petit article donne quelques bons conseils de base.

Django Advice

Un chouette petit article de Steve Losh sur des conseils z’et bonnes pratiques pour Django.

Compare Time Machine Backups and List All Changes Between Backups

Explication rapide sur la commande tmutil qui permets pleins de choses sympas avec vos backup TimeMachine.

Pour Mac OS X donc, au cas ou vous n’auriez pas suivi.

Amit’s Game Programming Information

Fantastique liste de ressources pour tout ce qui touche à la programmation de jeux vidéos: tutoriaux sur des sujets divers et variés, articles sur l’IA, sur le “path finding”, sur les jeux isométriques, sur les différents “game engines”, sur le game design, sur les jeux d’aventures, sur l’économie, sur …, sur …, sur … aaaargh, ça n’en finit pas !

Bref, des centaines d’heures de lectures et des Mb d’informations.

(en bonus, un autre lien du même acabit venant de Hacker News: le “Ultimate Indie Game Developer Resource List” http://www.mangatutorials.com/forum/showthread.php?742-The-Ultimate-Indie-Game-Developer-Resource-List)

DropKick

DropKick est un plugin jQuery pour avoir des ‘dropdowns’ qui ont du style …

Asciiflow

GUI drag-and-draw web tools to create ascii tables, arrows and text.

Great for tables and for flows as well. And you can export to text of html.

Really nifty.

Prey

Prey is Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones. So that you can found back your stolen gears.

Paper.js

Paper.js est le couteau suisse des framework javascript pour travailler avec des graphismes vectorielles (via le tag HTML5 canvas).

shim

From the github page: “Shim is a node.js-based browser-compatibility tool that lets you synchronize several devices/browsers and surf the same pages simultaneously on all of them. ”

Or, in other words, you can browse a test site on a local network from different devices: iPhone, iPad, any laptop, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Kindle, etc. and they all see the same things at the same time. If you move to another page from one of these devices, all the device connected move to the same page, allowing you to test all of them at once.

pandas: powerful Python data analysis toolkit

From the site: pandas is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with “relational” or “labeled” data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real world data analysis in Python.

Hosting Sphinx documentation on GitHub

Article explaining step by step how to host a Sphinx-based documentation on Github (and even with a nice fabric script).

CSS3 Buttonize Framework

A CSS3 framework to create different style of buttons.

The site is quite ugly (for some definition of beauty), but the buttons are ok (and the technique always nice to know).