July 2009
19 links saved this month.
youtube.com
Alex Martelli's Google Developers Day talk on design patterns in Python, arguing that patterns can only be studied in the context of the language they get implemented in.
w3.org
W3C Working Draft of 30 June 2009 for CSS multi-column layout, defining the twelve properties that flow an element's content into a set of columns.
peak.telecommunity.com
Reference manual for setuptools, the distutils extension adding dependency declarations, egg building and easy_install to Python packaging.
pixelbeat.org
Cheat sheet of GNU screen keyboard shortcuts and command-line options — windows, splitting, detaching, copy mode and scrollback.
dev.chromium.org
Chromium documentation on Chrome's release channels — Canary, Dev, Beta and Stable — what each one is for and how to switch between them.
dbazine.com
Vadim Tropashko compares nested sets and materialized path for storing trees in SQL, then derives a hybrid encoding that mixes the two.
sabricole.developpez.com
Tutoriel sur le processus unifié (UP), méthode de développement itérative centrée sur l'architecture, pilotée par les cas d'utilisation et orientée réduction des risques.
impressive.sourceforge.net
FAQ for Impressive, the Python program that plays PDF and image slideshows with transitions and highlighting — multi-monitor setups, video playback and driver issues.
code.google.com
Archive des fichiers du projet étudiant pfa16 (ENSEIRB, 2007-2008) : sources LaTeX et documents du cahier des charges, des besoins fonctionnels et de l'analyse de risque.
fr.wikipedia.org
Article Wikipédia sur Merise, la méthode française d'analyse, de conception et de gestion de projet des systèmes d'information, née des travaux des années 1970.
steve.yegge.googlepages.com
ma-like trance whenever I tried to skim through
lucumr.pocoo.org
Armin Ronacher's project list — Flask, Jinja, Werkzeug, Pygments, Sphinx, Click and others, alongside his commercial and game industry work.
python.org
The PEP that introduced generators and the yield statement to Python, with their specification, rationale and the resumable-function semantics they imply.
lucumr.pocoo.org
as as many attributes as you like. You can put whatever you want on i
astuteo.com
A stylesheet that renders a visual site map straight from an HTML unordered list, handling up to four levels of navigation with no other software involved.

















