Links from 2010

This is wonderful.

Shapeways now does full colour 3d printing. Nice.

A RoR Trac clone.

A web-based application for managing software and software-based consulting projects. Currently it uses Trac to handle individual projects but adds the ability to create new trac instances, svn configurations, etc.

Unofficial webfaction install scripts: CakePHP, AWStats, MediaWiki and more...

A pure AS3 micro-architecture (framework) with a light footprint and limited scope. Simply put, Robotlegs is there to help you wire your objects together. It provides the glue that your application needs to easily function in a decoupled way.

A collection of libraries I have written to use within the Arduino programming environment in conjunction with the Ethernet shield.

All Ninite does is automatically download and install the apps you select. Not even Ninite is installed.

Webfaction-specific. Useful for build tools (create a new non-HTTP site in webfaction with an automagic redirect to https equivalent url).

Anyone operating a server on any scale should want a digital certificate to encrypt data between clients and services, whether for personal, office, or public use. Ars tells you how to obtain and install one, for free.

What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.

Reports on common programming errors and bad code smells, including checking for nullable CharField field types, the use of brittle or deprecated Django features (such as auto_now_add) as well as the absence of recommended options in settings.py. It aims to encourage the development of high-quality re-usable Django applications.

This script allows you to easily create virtual hosts for a development environment on Mac OS X with the built-in Apache server so that you can reflect a production environment locally.

Most people who have designed web sites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aims to solve those problems once and for all.

Fergus Henderson reveals the secrets behind the delicious eccles cakes ['particularly fine when consumed with Lancashire cheese'] served at the St John restaurants in London.

"Optimizes images [...] by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations." Be interesting to see how this stacks up against smush.it.