For those using jedi-vim are indirectly using rope refactoring library. If you are also using a home-level virtualenv ie. in ~/env/ then your vim instance might take crazy long time. First things first, rope creates a .ropeproject directory where it thinks the project root is. And it will scan every file in every sub directory. A quick and dirty solution is to create empty .ropeproject folders lower in the $HOME filesystem. Read More

Playlistnow.fm is a social network based on music made in Python/Django. The catalog is powered by last.fm and the videos come from youtube. Before its final death, we decided to release the source code under Apache 2.0 license.

I’m posting this because it took me quite a few hours to get to this point: Ghost.py seem to have a nicer API and to be faster than selenium so far.

django-smarter looks way cool, check it out !

PhoneGap sounds like an amazing open source framework !

This (quite ugly) script will play some music at a certain time. It will also wake up the computer if it is hibernating. I intend to make a proper app from this, but for now feel free to try out the “proof of concept”.

Nick Morgan released easy 6502, an interactive guide to assembly !

I find this news quite funny !

This plugin allows to drag’n’drop HTML table columns. It is rather light and consistent with usual jQuery plugin and javascript patterns. This script doesn’t assume that it is smarter than you are. All it does is enabling clean column drag’n’drop, and triggers an event on drop. You should implement the persistence you want by binding that event to your own function. Nuff said, here it is.

Finally, django-rules-light supports running rules from templates. Check it out !