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A python-based task management system that replaces Unix cron - Josh Babetski

"Congrats and have fun. I've moved twice in my life just because I wanted a change of scenery and love to travel to just see what's out there. My Australia/New Zealand/Fiji trip last year was the experience of a lifetime. Not sure if I can top it, but I'm already figuring out how to try. Keep everyone updated on your travels and good luck!" - Josh Babetski

Code to drop into site to translate into other languages. - Josh Babetski

Detection for Chrome Frame which swaps out IE6's rendering engine with webkit. - Josh Babetski

Detection for Chrome Frame which swaps out IE6's rendering engine with webkit. - Josh Babetski

Tornado is a relatively simple, non-blocking Web server framework written in Python, designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections, making it ideal for real-time Web services. Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed's real-time functionality, which we plan to actively maintain. While Tornado is similar to existing Web-frameworks in Python (Django, Google's webapp, web.py), it focuses on speed and handling large amounts of simultaneous traffic. - http://developers.facebook.com/news... - Josh Babetski

FriendFeed's web server is a relatively simple, non-blocking web server written in Python. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the non-blocking web server and tools. - Josh Babetski

system-wide service for converting text to title case - Josh Babetski

teleport lets you use a single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs. Simply reach an edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your nearby Mac, which also becomes controlled by your keyboard. The pasteboard can be synchronized, and you can even drag & drop files between your Macs. - Josh Babetski

In Snow Leopard, Services have been completely thoroughly reinvented. Now more powerful, they are also streamlined to provide exceptional capability where you need it, when you need it. - Josh Babetski

Scribbles is a drawing tool for everyone. Whether you want to sketch a cartoon, draw a birthday card or jot down some design ideas, Scribbles can help bring your imagination to life. infinite canvas Draw outside the lines! With Scribbles, you don't have to pre-define the size of your canvas. Pan around forever, zoom in to the smallest detail, resize your window - Scribbles will re-render your entire drawing from raw vector data. power and beauty A stroke-rendering engine designed from the ground up for quality and scalability. With Scribbles you can zoom, pan, and re-size your art without ever seeing a jagged pixel. You can also export your art at up to 16x resolution. - Josh Babetski

JollysFastVNC is a secure ARD and VNC client. - Josh Babetski

Git repositories DO start to slow down after a while. They won't be as efficient in disk space utilization. The following little bash script will crawl your whole hard drive, look for any git repositories, and then garbage collect, prune, and pack them, regaining your disk space and making your repositories operate faster: #!/bin/sh find . -type d -name .git | while read dir; do pushd "$dir"; git gc --prune; popd; done - Josh Babetski

Lucky for us, since we are working with computers here, we don't have to clean our rooms by hand. The following little bash script will crawl your whole hard drive, look for any git repositories, and then garbage collect, prune, and pack them, regaining your disk space and making your repositories operate faster: #!/bin/sh find . -type d -name .git | while read dir; do pushd "$dir"; git gc --prune; popd; done - Josh Babetski

Lessn is an extremely simple, personal url shortener written in PHP with MySQL and mod_rewrite. - Josh Babetski

Python script to backup Twitter posts. - Josh Babetski

Use a Python script to back-up Flickr Photos - Josh Babetski

Advanced Caching with Django and Beaker - Josh Babetski

I was just thinking we'd like to see more of you here in the office. - John Flinchbaugh

"Real Genius" humor FTW! - Josh Babetski

F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better. - Josh Babetski

Using CSS and jQuery to evenly space floated containers - Josh Babetski

This is South, intelligent schema migrations for Django apps. The latest release is 0.5; see the Roadmap for more information about future releases. - Josh Babetski

Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them. - Josh Babetski

Ultra simple API for geocoding a single string against various web services - Josh Babetski

We use some JavaScript and CSS magic to apply a two-color gradient to any text. Shadows and highlights can also be applied. - Josh Babetski

DiffMerge is an application to visually compare and merge files for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix. (Like Beyond Compare) - Josh Babetski

Great rainbow transition effect. - Josh Babetski

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps". If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question. - Josh Babetski

Juno is a lightweight Python web framework designed to make development as fast as possible. - Josh Babetski

The ability to join multiple files together in a single request. This is a performance optimization. instead of requesting 5 seperate CSS or javascript files from your server, you can do it one request. - Josh Babetski

A mini-framework for Django for creating RESTful APIs. Piston is a relatively small Django application that lets you create application programming interfaces (API) for your sites. - Josh Babetski