Jacob Kaplan-Moss: software

Bookmarks

Ephemera: The Mac tool for Instapaper & ebook reader enthusiasts

Two-way Instapaper/Kindle sync. Must try.

(ebooks, instapaper, kindle, mac, software)

Graffiti Markup Language (GML)

Not a joke.

(graffiti, software, xml)

“Open Core” Is the New Shareware - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn )

This.

(copyleft, freedom, opensource, software)

mxcl's homebrew at masterbrew - GitHub

Looks like a perfect middle ground between the Scylla of MacPorts/Fink and the Charybdis of building everything by hand. Next OSX box I set up is going to use homebrew.

(mac, osx, software, sysadmin)

HEYU - Introduction

Open source X10 (RF/powerline) command line tool.

(automation, homeautomation, lighting, oscon, power, software, utility, x10)

Time Warp

Interesting idea: take your Time Machine backups and sync 'em to Amazon S3. I've been essentially doing the same thing by hand, but this looks much slicker. Worth a try, I think.

(amazon, backup, mac, macosx, s3, software, storage, timemachine)

Bug tracking software oriented around the “story/iteration” model. Looks pretty neat, though I kinda wish the bullshit jargon around “Agile Software” would curl up and die; it's just distracting and Inside Baseball-y. I especially like the built-in velocity tracking; that's something traditional bug tracks aren't so good at.

(agile, collaboration, development, management, planning, programming, projectmanagement, scrum, software, time, tools, tracker, webapp)

How SQLite Is Tested

SQLite's testing infrastructure is nothing short of inspired: “SQLite […] consists of approximately 62.2 KSLOC of C code. […] By comparison, the project has 716 times as much test code and test scripts - 44568.6 KSLOC. […] The TCL test suite obtains 99.37% statement coverage [… and] 95.16% branch coverage.”

(programming, software, sqlite, testing)

Interlude - Write Python Doctests interactive — BlueDynamics Alliance

Drop into an interpreter in the middle of your doctest. Brilliant!

(doctest, interactive, python, software, testing)

Official Google Mac Blog: Search Without Effort: The Quick Search Box

This is what the creator of QuickSilver has been working on at Google. Pretty rudimentary right now, but I'm excited to see where it goes.

(google, mac, search, software)

PhotoCalc — The Photographer’s Calculator Application for iPhone and iPod touch: Depth of Field/DoF, reciprocation, flash

Calculate DoF, flash exposure, etc.

(application, calculator, camera, iphone, photo, photocalc, software)

tunnelblick - Google Code

Super-simple OpenVPN client for Mac OS X. Just throw OpenVPN configs in ~/Library/openvpn and then connect with the menubar item. Awesome.

(mac, openvpn, osx, software, via:mccurdy, vpn)

Monty says: Oops, we did it again (MySQL 5.1 released as GA with crashing bugs)

This is just nuts: something stamped final should not be this full of fail. Monty's got a great roundup of what went wrong, and as you might expect it's the classic case of letting suits and marketing schedules run software release. I thought Open Source was supposed to put the power back in the hands of the technocrats…

(bugs, database, fail, mysql, quality, releases, software, sun, wtf)

WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string

“And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, […] and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.”

(chrome, firefox, fun, history, mozilla, opera, safari, software, string, user-agent)

CleverCSS

Like those hackish CSS preprocessors that everyone writes when they get pissed about CSS's lack of variables, except actually well-thought-out and basically awesome. I think I'll be using this for my CSS from now on.

(clevercss, css, desgin, python, software, via:twid)

Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 9.0 Release Notes

BBEdit 9 is out, and looks fantastic. BBEdit was the first text editor that I really fell in love with. It certainly languished for a loooong time, but BB9 finally looks like a modern text edit. Now that TextMate 2 looking increasingly like vaporware I may well go give BB a try for a couple of weeks and see if it's as good as I remember.

(bbedit, development, mac, software, texteditor)

Instant Cocoa - pTerm

An iPhone port of PuTTY. Now that's what I'm talking about!

(apple, apps, iphone, software, ssh)

Zookeepr | Main / HomePage browse

A conference management package developed by LCA.

(conference, linux, python, software, web)

Video game lists - giantbomb.com

Perhaps my favorite feature of Vines (the software behind GiantBomb) are the user lists. I love seeing the different uses that people make of 'em: right now I'm seeing a bunch of “favorites” and “wishlists”, but also “best music”, “best movie tie-ins”, et

(giantbomb, lists, software, whiskeymedia)

Adeona: A Free, Open Source System for Helping Track and Recover Lost and Stolen Laptops

The first (that I know of) open source, non-centralized laptop tracker. Gotta give this a shot.

(laptop, opensource, security, software, tracking)

Mash-up making 101? | Ask Metafilter

Some great links.

(howto, mashup, metafilter, music, software)

Yep

The PDF organization software I'm using with my ScanSnap. Only about 10% of the features of DEVONThink, but the 10% I use. Very well done, and purty to boot.

(organization, pdf, scansnap, software)

Wx

Serious weather nerdery.

(mac, software, via:mcroydon, weather)

The Adoption-Led Market [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]

Fantastically good thinking about how Open Source leads to a different — I'd say better — kind of software market.

(markets, opensource, software, via:timbray)

prefuse | interactive information visualization toolkit

Nifty looking dataviz toolkit. Some overlap with Processing, it seems, but there's also a bunch of graph/node stuff in Prefuse that looks neat. It's Java, unfortunatly, but maybe that'll be a good excuse to try out the recent advances in Jython.

(analysis, dataviz, graph, graphics, java, library, programming, software)

Vara Software : ScreenFlow

Really hot-looking screen capture/screencast software. $100, but probably worth it for anyone who does a bunch of screencasts.

(mac, osx, screencast, software, tools, video)

Changes Beta

An interesting visual diff tool along the lines of FileMerge or kdiff3. I've been more than happy with FileMerge, but Changes is probably worth a look.

(development, diff, mac, programming, scm, software)

Coding Horror: Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero?

“So let's be completely clear: when you buy a new Mac, you're buying a giant hardware dongle that allows you to run OS X software.” Cute.

(apple, freedom, freedom-zero, mac, software)

pdftk - the pdf toolkit

(pdf, software)

FAST - Enterprise Search

A commercial search-engine provider about which I've heard good things. Judging by the fact that the web site doesn't provide pricing information, I'd guess that it's expensive — if you have to ask, you don't want to know. Still worth a look, I think.

(search, software)

XMLStarlet Command Line XML Toolkit: Overview

Tools for dealing with XML from the command line. Works especially well as part of a pipeline — curl + xmlstarlet makes a wonderful REST web service consumer.

(rest, software, unix, xml)

easy_install tip - setting up your own repository - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog

(easy_install, python, setuptools, software)

Linux.com :: CellWriter: Open source handwriting recognition for Linux

Gotta give this a try. Windows' character recognition is the only thing keeping me from installing Linux on my tablet; I'd love to make the jump.

(handwriting, linux, software, tablet)

EVE Online on the Mac next Tuesday

Ohshit. There goes any chance of me getting any work done in the foreseable future.

(eve-online, game, mac, mmo, software)

Taskpaper

A text-based GTD-ish todo app. I'm pretty torn between this an OmniFocus, which is strange given how different in philosophy they are. I'll probably end up using TaskPaper if only for the really simple text format.

(gtd, mac, osx, software, todo)

CFDG: Context-Free Design Grammar

Pastebin/gallery for CFDG images/files.

(contextfree, graphics, programming, software)

Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project: Guidelines for Developers - Software Freedom Law Center

Important guidlines from the SFLC on how to properly relicense permissively-licensed (i.e. BSD/MIT) code. Good to see that something positive came out of the whole Atheros driver kerfuffle.

(bsd, copyright, development, gpl, law, legal, licenses, mit, opensource, software)

Call Me Fishmeal.: iPhone & iPod: contain or disengage?

Wil articulates what every long-time Mac-head is feeling these days. I'm very afraid for the future of Apple - more than I've been at any other point.

(apple, business, drm, iphone, ipod, markets, software)

Mint | Refreshing Money Management

Mint launches publically. My 10-word review: “Hm, seems to want my bank username and password. *Plonk*.”

(accounting, services, software)

Penelope Releases - MozillaWiki

The first beta of the bastard child of Eudora and Thunderbird is available. I'm gonna give it a shot, but someone how doubt that two shitty mail clients will have anything but a twice-shitty child.

(email, eudora, software, thunderbird)

Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph

Tackling social network portability. If anyone can solve this nasty problem it'll be Brad.

(api, community, graph, network, networking, openid, portability, social, software)

ack — a grep replacement that ignores .svn/CVS/blib directories, understands file types, uses Perl regexes, and much more

Whoa, this is *so* much better than grep it's not even funny.

(grep, perl, search, shell, software, sysadmin, text, tools, unix)

Advogato: Financing Volunteer Free Software Projects

Lots to think about.

(business, community, opensource, software)

Leaflets: iPhone apps that grow on you.

BlueFlavor's cool new set of iPhone web apps. I've been using the semi-private beta since I got my phone (thanks, Jeff!) and it rocks. GO check it out.

(iphone, phone, software, web)

barbarian software | magnetosphere

“This is the future of visuals. God help you if you smoke the reefer cause you can kiss your productivity goodbye.”

(audio, graphics, itunes, music, software, visualization)

Sun OpenID Non-Assertion Covenant

More companies need to start doing this. Software patents *can* work, but the patent office allows them to be too powerful. Smart companies like Sun are routing around the damage and allowing communities to make use of important technology.

(openid, patents, software, softwarepatents, standards, sun)

HAProxy - The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

Another load balancer; heard good things about this one.

(apache, loadbalancing, performance, proxy, software, sysadmin, webdev)

Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.

A *great* roundup of ten presentations on scaling: Twitter, Flickr, LiveJournal, Vox, Bloglines, last.fm, and SlideShare.

(deployment, for:jdunck, performance, scaling, server, slides, software, sysadmin, tutorials, webdev)

pktstat

Like top, but for network usage. Highly recommended.

(linux, monitoring, networking, opensource, performance, software, statistics, tools)

Buildix from ThoughtWorks :: project start-up in a box

A development toolbox in a single disk image.

(development, linux, opensource, programming, software, svn, tools, virtualization)

There Are Only Four Software Licenses

Amen! Open source needs an Anti-License Proliferation Treaty.

(licenses, opensource, software)

Dozing Cat Software

“SaverLab: Runs Mac OS X screensaver modules in regular windows.”

(mac, opensource, osx, screensaver, software)

Projects at OmniTI Labs

Some open source bits from Theo Schlossnagel & co. Worth keeping an eye on, for sure.

(opensource, scaling, software, via:jdunck)

LilyPond - About - Essay

Awesome essay on automating music typography.

(design, language, music, notation, software, typography)

Wackamole: use your resources

IP load balancer with a great name.

(ip, linux, loadbalancing, performance, software)

Varnish - Trac

“Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator.”

(cache, httpd, linux, performance, server, software, tools, web)

The Filter - Instant Playlist Generator Plugin for iTunes

Like Pandora, but for your own iTunes library.

(itunes, mac, music, software)

Application Traffic Management, Application Security

Commercial (and expensive) load balancer (++)

(deployment, load, pycon2007, software, tools)

antoniolore.net - under_construction

Export AddressBook to CSV (for gmail import).

(addressbook, gmail, mac, software)

Correo - a new mail client for OS X

“Correo blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, Camino and Thunderbird, to create a polished native Macintosh application.” This could be huge.

(email, mac, mozilla, opensource, software)