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A Javascript module and CSS file that allows syntax highlighting of source code snippets in an html page. - Bela Babik

Grit: The skills for success and how they are grown, a new Young Foundation book published on Tuesday 30 June argues that Britain's schools need to prioritise grit and self-discipline. Drawing on evidence from around the world it shows that these contribute as much to success at work and in life as IQ and academic qualifications. Too much emphasis on exams and academic qualifications has pushed these life skills to the margins. With over a million young people not in employment, education or training and tens of thousands of graduates facing unemployment, it warns that a large proportion of young people have not been adequately prepared for a much tougher economic environment. - Bela Babik

Git Extensions is a toolkit to make working with Git on Windows more intuitive. The shell extension will intergrate in Windows Explorer and presents a context menu on files and directories. There is also a Visual Studio plugin to use git from Visual Studio. - Bela Babik

This series of five manuals describes everything you need to know about optimizing code for x86 and x86-64 family microprocessors, including optimization advices for C++ and assembly language, details about the microarchitecture and instruction timings of Intel, AMD and VIA processors, and details about different compilers and calling conventions. - Bela Babik

Or at least it wasn't until Kang Zhang wrote python keyring, a module that abstracts the password storage mechanisms for KDE, GNOME, OSX and windows (and adds a couple of file-based backends just in case). - Bela Babik

I call this system "Semantic Versioning." Under this scheme, version numbers and the way they change convey meaning about the underlying code and what has been modified from one version to the next. - Bela Babik

Create your own puzzle from a photo. - Bela Babik

Nice Mail.app plugin. - Bela Babik

Blender 2.6 is very promising. - Bela Babik

After over a year of intensive development and refactoring, Inkscape 0.47 is out. This version of the SVG-based vector graphics editor brings improved performance and tons of new features, some of which are as follows: timed autosave, Spiro splines, auto-smooth nodes, Eraser tool, new modes in Tweak tool, snapping options toolbar & greater snapping abilities, new live path effects (including Envelope), over 200 preset SVG filters, new Cairo-based PS and EPS export, spell checker, many new extensions, optimized SVG code options, and much more. - Bela Babik

A complete microcontroller development kit for little more than the cost of a bare chip? That’s what STMicroelectronics is promising with their STM8S-Discovery: seven dollars gets you not only a board-mounted 8-bit microcontroller with an decent range of GPIO pins and functions, but the USB programmer/debugger as well. - Bela Babik

Cool visualizations. - Bela Babik

8. The longer the player plays without a break, the more his sense of the reality of the world is built up. Any time he dies or has to restart from a saved game, the spell is broken. 9. Alternative paths, recoverable errors, multiple solutions to the same problem, missed opportunities that can be made up later, are all good. - Bela Babik

* The Closure Compiler compiles JavaScript into compact, high-performance code. * The Closure Library is a broad, well-tested, modular, and cross-browser JavaScript library. You can pull just what you need from a large set of reusable UI widgets and controls, and from lower-level utilities for DOM manipulation, server communication, animation, data structures, unit testing, rich-text editing, and more. * Closure Templates simplify the task of dynamically generating HTML. They have a simple syntax that is natural for programmers. In contrast to traditional templating systems, in which you use one big template per page, you can think of Closure Templates as small components that you compose to form your user interface. - Bela Babik

JSGB [ v.0.2 ] a JavaScript GameBoy Emulator by Pedro Ladaria - Bela Babik

Clarity is a Splunk like web interface for your server log files. It supports searching (using grep) as well as trailing log files. It has been written using the event based architecture based on EventMachine and so allows real-time search of very large log files. If you hit the browser Stop button it will also kill the grep / tail utility. - Bela Babik

Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side. The focus is on simple usage (all settings are optional), attractive looks and interactive features like zooming and mouse tracking. The plugin works with Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2.x+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Konqueror 4.x+ with the HTML canvas tag (Internet Explorer where the excanvas Javascript emulation helper is used). - Bela Babik

DJV Imaging provides professional movie playback software for film production, VFX, and computer animation. Features * Available for Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, and Windows * Playback both image sequences and movie files * Support for industry standard file formats including Cineon, DPX, OpenEXR, and QuickTime * Includes command line utilities for batch image processing - Bela Babik

PuDB is a full-screen, console-based visual debugger for Python. Its goal is to provide all the niceties of modern GUI-based debuggers in a more lightweight and keyboard-friendly package. PuDB allows you to debug code right where you write and test it--in a terminal. If you've worked with the excellent (but nowadays ancient) DOS-based Turbo Pascal or C tools, PuDB's UI might look familiar. - Bela Babik

The more I look at Clojure, the more I think it’s a heroic attempt to Do The Right Thing, in fact All The Right Things, as we move toward the lots-of-not-particularly-fast-cores future. I’m still working my head around Clojure’s concurrency primitives. We come to understand the things we don’t by contrast with the things we do; so I’m finding contrast between the Clojure and Erlang approaches to messaging instructive. - Bela Babik

Barely larger than a lipstick, the Minox NV mini II is one of the smallest night vision devices in the world. - Bela Babik

twill is a simple language that allows users to browse the Web from a command-line interface. With twill, you can navigate through Web sites that use forms, cookies, and most standard Web features. twill supports automated Web testing and has a simple Python interface. Check out the examples! twill is open source and written in Python. - Bela Babik

I can run a long running batch job in one Python interpreter (say loading a few million lines of CSV in to a Redis key/value lookup table) and run another interpreter to play with the data that’s already been collected, even as the first process is streaming data in. I can quit and restart my interpreters without losing any data. And because Redis semantics map closely to Python native data types, I don’t have to think for more than a few seconds about how I’m going to represent my data. - Bela Babik

David Suzuki’s The Nature of Things featured an entire piece on Gardner, from his math buddies to the sleight-of-hand circles he frequented. - Bela Babik

Spyder (previously known as Pydee) is a free open-source Python development environment providing MATLAB-like features in a simple and light-weighted software, available for Windows XP/Vista/7, GNU/Linux and MacOS X. Spyder is part of spyderlib, a Python module based on PyQt4 and QScintilla2. - Bela Babik

RunServerPlus-typical runserver with Werkzeug debugger baked in - Bela Babik

Easily download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages (setuptools replacement) - Bela Babik

Even better, we can make use of a new library in version 1.2.5 of the SDK, called 'deferred'. deferred is a clone of Ruby's delayed::job library, and makes it easy to enqueue function and method calls on the App Engine task queue. deferred isn't officially documented yet - though documentation is forthcoming soon - so consider this post to be an exclusive first look at this new library. - Bela Babik

"*If I recall correctly from their blog, Snow Leopard becomes Tier 1 in 4.6 but they will not make significant effort to fix anything Snow Leopard related in 4.5 if and where Apple broke compatibility.* The problem is that SL has been shipped, users expect developers to support it. *If I recall correctly from their blog, Snow Leopard becomes Tier 1 in 4.6* I hope you will be right eventually: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt... "Doc: Snow Leopard is supported as a Tier 2 platform. Discussed in the program team - adding it as a Tier 1 platform is too ambitious."" - Bela Babik

"Windows 7 is interesting too, it's not on the list, so it's Tier 3, but: http://qt.nokia.com/develop... "Support for Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6" Ok, it's a preview release, things can change, but they are obviously concentrating on the S60 version." - Bela Babik