Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

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• Real Time Search – Social Mention
• We ♥ Icons : Mac, Windows and PNG icons of the finest quality!
• diane dipiazza was here
• Find Fonts, Try Fonts, Buy Fonts « MyFonts
• modconcat – Google Code The ability to join multiple files together in a single request.
  This is a performance optimization. instead of requesting 5 seperate CSS or javascript files from your server, you can do it one request.

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• Django snippets A site for users of the Django web framework to come together and share useful "snippets" of reusable code.
• Django Heresies
• jespern / django-piston / wiki / Home — bitbucket.org A mini-framework for Django for creating RESTful APIs.
  Piston is a relatively small Django application that lets you
  create application programming interfaces (API) for your sites.
• pysmell – Google Code PySmell is a python IDE completion helper.
  It tries to statically analyze Python source code, without executing it, and generates information about a project's structure that IDE tools can use.
  There is currently support for Vim, Emacs and TextMate. Feel free to contribute your own favourite editor bindings, or to improve the existing ones.
• The Best Free Web Icon Sets – WebIconSets.com

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• Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicating Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing.
• Lifehacker – 30-Second DVR Tweak Speeds Up Commercial Skipping – TiVo 30-second commercial skipping a Comcast DVR:
  1) Press the "Cable" button at the top of the remote to put it into Cable Box control mode.
  2) Press and hold the "Setup" button until the "Cable" button blinks twice.
  3) Type in the code 994. The "Cable" button will blink twice.
  4) Press (do not hold) the "Setup" button.
  5) Type in the code 00173 (for 30 second Skip).
  6) Press whatever button you want to map the skip. (I use the fav button—next to mute.)
• Short URL Auto-Discovery ‎(wiki)‎
• Porting code to Python 3 with 2to3 – Dive into Python 3
• Capo Capo is a musician's best friend. It lets you slow down your favorite songs, so you can hear the notes and learn how they are played.

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• 10 Awesome Free Sans Serif Fonts | My Ink Blog
• Revisiting the Mac mini media center | Entertainment & HDTV | Macworld
• iCal Reply Checker | John Maisey iCal Reply Checker is an add-in to iCal for Mac OSX 10.4 and 10.5 that gives the user options for how replies to meeting invites are dealt with. It allows the user to not send replies, send replies on a case by case basis, send all replies or (as of version 1.2) opens the reply message in Mail for editing.
• Apple – Downloads – Email & Chat – YAI YAI (you are invited) is a plug-in for Apple Mail that translates and transfers Outlook, Google Calendar, Zimbra and Exchange clone meeting invitations to iCal. It corrects many incompatibilities between Microsoft Exchange style meeting invites and what iCal can understand.
• Inconsolata
• pubsubhubbub – Google Code A simple, open, web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol. Includes an open source reference implementation that runs on Google App Engine.

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• Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
• IE6 Update IE6 Update looks like IE’s Information Bar, but instead of offering your visitors an ActiveX plugin, it offers a browser update.
• Mini Display Port to HDMI Adapter | Mini Display Port to DVI / VGA Adapter Mini Display Port to HDMI Adapter
• Firediff – In Case of Stairs Firediff implements a change monitor that records all of the changes made by firebug and the application itself to CSS and the DOM. This
  provides insight into the functionality of the application as well as provide a record of the changes that were required to debug and tweak the page’s display.
• Plex Media Center for OS X Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins.

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• Cyclopedia Square: Put /etc Under Revision Control (with git)
• Useful Keyboard Shortcuts in OS X
• Chris Shiflett: Save the Internet with rev="canonical" Overview and proposal for link-shortening issues.
• django-backup – Google Code
• philnelson's diggbarred at master – GitHub WP plug-ing to block the ridiculous Diggbar.

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• The Python Language Reference — Python v2.6.1 documentation
• Django | Contributing to Django | Django Documentation Django Best Practices
• PEP 8 — Style Guide for Python Code
• django-compress – Google Code
• Letterhead Fonts: Rare & Unique Lettering for The Artist

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• The Scala Programming Language
• IDEO Labs » LiveView: an iPhone app for on-screen prototyping iPhone app and screen overlay to help with iPhone app and site development.
• Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala • The Register
• 2009 Rubyist's guide to a Mac OS X development environment — GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS Here’s how I quickly got my Ruby web development environment into ship-shape form The Thoughtbot Way.
  Many of these instructions are specific to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Some of them are opinionated (Vim over Textmate). Pick-and-choose what you need but this is everything that I use happily day-to-day right now.
• DD_belatedPNG: Medicine for your IE6/PNG headache! This is a Javascript library that sandwiches PNG image support into IE6 without much fuss.
  You can use PNGs as the SRC of an <IMG/> element or as a background-image property in CSS.

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• iPhone Coding For Web Developers
• Understanding Git Conceptually
• PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript.

  If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you.

• Three20 iPhone Project
• A List Apart: Articles: Prettier Accessible Forms

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• Fabric: simple pythonic deployment. Fabric: simple pythonic deployment.

  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. These commands are grouped in tasks (regular python functions) and specified in a 'fabfile.'

  This is called remote automation, and the primary use case is deploying applications to multiple similar hosts.

• Switched to Python Fabric | Es Tea Double Eye
• How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor's blog
• Plurk Open Source – LightCloud – Distributed and persistent key value database
• SCHED: SXSW 2009