Links from 2010 (682 links)

A Python script that uses [the Webfaction] API to create all of the DNS overrides you need to use Google Apps for your email.

Heroes are damaging to a team because they become a crutch. As soon as you have someone who’s always willing to work at all hours, the motivation from the rest of the team to produce reliable, trouble-free software drops. The hero is a human patch.

A member of the xUnit family of testing frameworks and provides both a framework that makes the writing of tests easy as well as the functionality to easily run the tests and analyse their results.

The prototype Datastore for London. This is where we’ll be releasing all of the Greater London Authority’s data for all Londoners to see and use free of charge.

Via demwunz.

Apple touch home icon info, including instructions on removing the shiny-shiny.

A tool to copy messages from one IMAP server to another quickly and safely. It’s smart enough not to copy messages that already exist on the destination and robust enough to deal with interruptions caused by flaky connections or misbehaving servers.

Is there a way to block a given change based on the user role? For example, I don't want any developer to be able to change a ticket status from 'development' to 'closed'. I want it to go through 'test', and allow 'test' to 'closed' only to users with the test role.

Capistrano’s power is in its remoting features. You tell it what to do on that other server, and it does it. Beauty. So, if your PHP deployment process requires an svn export combined with a few other repetitive steps you have to do every time, Capistrano is here to help you too.

Via iamcal.

New label from Milk & Beef and friends.

Via tomtaylor.

This is wonderful.

Shapeways now does full colour 3d printing. Nice.

Via chrisdodo.

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.

Via paul.irish.

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.

Via tomtaylor.

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.

Via thegingerbloke.

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.

Via thegingerbloke.

Via paul.irish.

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.

Via infovore.