Friday
Wednesday
Celestia: Home →
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
Tuesday
NASA NEBULA | Services | Services - Overview →
http://nebula.nasa.gov/services
Nebula, NASA’s cloud computing platform, uses Django. Following the list of open source projects being used here leads to some great and interesting results.
Friday
Alice, the app - VERY MUCH IN CONSTRUCTION →
http://alicetheapp.com/
Alice provides a RESTful interface to the RabbitMQ queue server including administration functions. It’s written using Mochiweb, an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
Wednesday
EveryBlock source code released / The EveryBlock Blog →
http://blog.everyblock.com/2009/jun/30/source/
Source code for Everyblock has been released. This is the Knight Foundation grant given to Adrian Holovaty, et al. and built on Django and Python. I’ll be spending time reading the source.
Saturday
MPOAuthConnection →
http://code.google.com/p/mpoauthconnection/
MPOAuthConnection is a drop in cocoa component for Mac and iPhone apps to talk to OAuth web services
Wednesday
The Git Parable →
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html
A fictional tale of a programmer’s quest to make a version control system, except what it describes in step by step detail is how Git works. Nicely done and informative.
Tuesday
The Little Manual of API Design →
http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf
Insights into API design from Trolltech, makers of the QT libraries. Adding this to my to-read list. (PDF)
Wednesday
django-tinymce - Google Code →
http://code.google.com/p/django-tinymce/
A django forms widget with support for languages, spell checking, and file browsing. Nice!
Friday
Yolk →
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/yolk
Yolk is a command-line tool querying PyPI and Python packages installed on your system.
