March 2009

paperblog.fr

Billet satirique qui applique à sa compagne la grille d'entretien annuel d'évaluation en entreprise, critère de performance par critère de performance.

nongnu.org

Deprecated index page for Fabric, now carrying nothing but a notice pointing at the project's current site, fabfile.org.

iconpot.com

Icon library offering SVG and PNG icons free for personal and commercial use, browsable by category.

jrmiii.com

One-page mind map of Vim commands grouped by cursor movement, insert mode, editing, visual mode, search and replace, macros, cut and paste, and multi-file work.

designm.ag

Tutorial building a toggle that switches a listing between detailed list view and thumbnail grid view, with a live demo and downloadable source.

colorschemedesigner.com

Color wheel tool that derives monochromatic, complementary and triadic palettes from a base hue and previews them on sample layouts; now published as Paletton.

docs.python.org

Chapter of the Python language reference covering objects, types and the standard type hierarchy, and every special method a class can define to customise its behaviour.

paulstamatiou.com

Walkthrough of Amazon EC2 from the command-line tools, covering launching an instance, opening firewall ports, connecting over SSH and assigning a static IP.

code.activestate.com

Recipe declaring a Python property from a single decorated function whose nested getter and setter are captured by a trace hook, instead of returning locals() by hand.

gnosis.cx

David Mertz's book on Python string handling, regular expressions and parsers, with the full text, code samples and errata available free online.