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10 Key Tasks For Your Next Web Site | Smiley Cat Web Design

by mozkart
Last year I wrote about 12 essential web site building blocks — things that you should check when you take on responsibility for a new web site, or even just launch one. Well, this year I've come up with a few more, mostly as a reminder to me for the next site that I'll be running.

October 2009

Time/Weather Desktop on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

by karlcow

Well, most of the work is done by Earthdesk and GeekTool 3.

Earthdesk is set to Natural Color, Equirectangular projection, Natural Color, Real Moonlight, centered on Vienna, Background: Starfield. Zoom 80%, Clouds 80%, Brightness 80%.

In GeekTool, the times and the weathers are all separate Shell "geeklets".

Times are generated by running shell commands like

env TZ=Asia/Tokyo date " %l:%M %p"

every 20 seconds

The weather is the tricky part. The way I am doing it now, if I am not careful, gets me throttled for too many concurrent requests to the wunderground.com API server. It also fails badly if I am disconnected, so I will need to do it differently.

FWIW: I have a PHP script which I run as separate Shell Geeklets. I invoke it with the name of the city I want. It then hits wunderground and gets back an XML stream of the local weather, which I parse, format and echo. (the way I'd change this is run the script from cron, with a 30 second wait between requests, and cache the results locally, which I would then call from the Shell Geeklets)

From there it's just a question of setting fonts, sizes, colors and moving the little Geeklet boxes around as you want them.

lericson/programming/ - Pooling with pylibmc

by karlcow

This means that whenever Python code is running, you'll be sure to have exclusive access to all of Python's memory (unless something is misbehaving.) In turn, this means that the usecase for using libmemcachedutil in a Python library is rather slim.

jessenoller.com - Django, mod_wsgi, Apache and OS X – do it.

by karlcow

whut_2.jpgSo, I’m one of those people where I don’t like running things “too far” from what a production setup might look like (I code on OS/X, deploy to Linux). This is why I jump(ed) through various hoops on my OS X system to get Apache/Django/mod_wsgi/etc all up and running and happy (not for serving the site; just developing).

Visualize Your SSH & FTP Behaviour on Datavisualization.ch

by karlcow

Every time that you login into your local Unix-like machine or a remote hosting server through a FTP client to upload a file or use SSH to get your stuff done, you’re leaving behind a trail of evidence showing your online behaviour: where and when you log in, how often and how long your online sessions are, in short: your modus operandi. This visualization tool unveils this hidden data, which is gathered by running a few builtin UNIX commands and is analyzed onsite.

FlashFXP :: FTP Client Software

by rmaltete
FlashFXP is a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client for Windows, it offers you easy and fast ways to transfer any file between other local computers (LAN - Local Area Network) running a FTP server or via the Internet (WAN - Wide Area Network) and even directly between two servers using Site to Site transfers (FXP - File eXchange Protocol).

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September 2009

Zend_Amf with full Zend Framework | Space of Flex/AIR technologies

by srcmax
There are many examples on the web how to use Zend_Amf as a standalone component but couldn’t find one that actually shows how you can run it with the rest of the Zend Framework. Main benefit of running it in a way I will demonstrate in this post is that requests to AMF service classes are automatically bootstrapped with configuration, database initialization and other Zend components.

Hitchcock - Mobile storyboarding for your iphone

by sbrothier & 1 other
Hitchcock is the worlds first mobile story boarding application. With Hitchcock you can have your first story board up and running in a matter of minutes. Hitchcock streamlines the process of storyboarding by allowing you to compose storyboards using photos rather than the tedious hand drawing process. This allows professionals and students to portray their vision to others in a easily controllable and transportable format. Click below to learn more about what features Hitchcock has to offer and how it will assist you in bringing your ideas to life. For an indepth look, full featured video tutorials can be found below....

kaourantin.net: What does GPU acceleration mean?

by RETFU
left shows it running using the new gpu mode, right using the normal mode. This a video which is 320x240 pixels large showing red text and as you notice the gpu mode arguably looks better as the hardware does UV bl

browsertests - Project Hosting on Google Code

by karlcow

This project is about running test cases automatically on several versions of the main Web browsers available today. See the StartPage for more information. Tests and results are visible on http://www.browsertests.org.

Fabric — Fabric v0.9 beta 1 documentation

by karlcow & 1 other (via)

Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool designed to streamline deploying applications or performing system administration tasks via the SSH protocol. It provides tools for running arbitrary shell commands (either as a normal login user, or via sudo), uploading and downloading files, and so forth.

Installation/FromImgFiles - Community Ubuntu Documentation

by tadeufilippini (via)
# Download the desired .img file # Install the usb-imagewriter package * If your release does not include this, download it from Oliver's PPA * If imagewriter fails to launch, you may need to install python glade2 support. Install the python-glade2 package or Run sudo apt-get install python-glade2 * If your release does not include it and you are running 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope then run this command from the console: o sudo apt-get install usb-imagewriter # Open Applications -> Accessories -> Image Writer * KDE users will find this in Applications -> Utilities -> Image Writer * on some usb-imagewriter versions (console command: imagewriter) the application fails to write if the image path contains blank spaces, exiting with "IndexError: list index out of range". Also, in case you prefer to launch it from the command line, don't forget to sudo it, otherwise it will give a permission error. # Insert your flash media # Select the downloaded file and flash device, and click "Write to Device" # Remove your device when the operation is complete

August 2009

Character encoding detection for external scripts

by karlcow

This is (EF BB BF) C3 B6 3D 22 21 22 loaded into browsers under various labels. That happens to be properly formed ECMAScript code for all the encodings used. The bogus results for Opera9 can easily be reproduced in context of the testing script, but probably not individually from a clean cache; what's going on there is unknown. I also noted in running these tests that Opera claims "Opera supports the entire ECMA-262 2nd and 3rd standards with no exceptions" while in fact their implementation does not, the parser rejects code that follows the IdentifierStart :: UnicodeEscapeSequence production of ECMA-262 section 7.6. Instead it implements Opera-only extensions, like comma-free arrays ala [ 1 2 3 ]. Other fun facts include: IE does not implement onload for iframes and cannot modify the innerHTML or tr elements; Firefox ignores "tags" when setting the innerHTML of dynamically created tr elements with no ownerElement... Oh and Opera again needs /th "tags" so it won't nest adjacent th elements when setting innerHTML.

convert MARC to SKOS

by karlcow

This set of programs lets you convert MARC subject authority data to SKOS and then serve it up as linked data for use on the semantic web. If you just want to get the triples, and don't want to be bothered with converting legacy MARC data, and running an instance of lcsh.info then you should probably just download the complete set of triples at:

Mozilla Developer News » Blog Archive » Firefox 3 about to get a major update

by srcmax (via)

Starting a little later tonight, users with the latest version of Firefox 3 will be getting an offer to update to Firefox 3.5. If you’re running Firefox 3.0.13 you will see the offer in the next couple of days, though if you’re eager you can always “Check for Updates” in the “Help” menu.

July 2009

4store - Scalable RDF storage

by karlcow & 1 other

4store was designed by Steve Harris and developed at Garlik to underpin their Semantic Web applications. It has been providing the base platform for around 3 years. At times holding and running queries over databases of 15GT, supporting a Web application used by thousands of people.

Opening up conversation on browser interrogation tools with Browser Memory Tool Prototype on Dion Almaer's Blog

by oseres
Do you sometimes feel like the browser is a black box? We are building richer and richer applications on the Web platform and this means that developers are running up against new issues to debug and test. We feel like it is a great time to develop new tools that afford you the ability to look into the runtime to hopefully help you find a bug, or allow you to keep your application as responsive as possible. Today we want to start a conversation about some of our thinking, with the hope that you will join in. We have been taking a hard look at the tools landscape, and here is a presentation that gives you an idea of our thinking:

little heart

by blackgoldfish
I am running so behind today! ... just needed my little heart to help me push through.

Running a Reverse Proxy with Apache:

by eaque & 1 other (via)
Step by step guide to set up a working reverse proxy

Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment

by karlcow

Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Lua and BeanShell are currently supported, and we're planning to add Ruby and JavaScript support, as well.

June 2009

PUMA Men’s Alacron L Running Shoe

by jk4net
Made for night-running, PUMA’s Alacron will ensure you're seen thanks to its reflective fabrication. The iCell midsole and midfoot TPU shank provides the support you need-day or night. From the Manufacturer PUMA is the global athletic brand that successfully fuses influences from sport, lifestyle and fashion. PUMA's unique industry perspective delivers the unexpected in sport-lifestyle footwear, apparel and accessories, through technical innovation and revolutionary design. PUMA Running offers options for a marathon trainer or a casual jogger. The Running Collection intertwines innovative technology and superior comfort with smart style. (more…)

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