Urban Fairies fairy doors Locations which, oddly enough, are located in the town in which I live. I’ll have to check that out when I’m downtown next.
Python Web Developer Appliance
Jim McDonald of our local Python Users Group (MichiPUG) created the Python Web Developer Appliance, which is a VMWare Player appliance for trying out almost everything you could want related to Python web development. It’s all configured and ready to run. It’s a slick piece of work if you’re looking to tinker.
TurboZSI SOAP web services for TurboGears
Charlie Moad announced TurboZSI today, which is a package that wraps up the ZSI library to provide SOAP-based web services for TurboGears. It looks good, but it also reminds me about why I like standard HTTP with JSON return values for web APIs.
The JavaScript Library World Cup
The JavaScript Library World Cup: Dan Webb writes an excellent article providing a high-level view of 4 different JavaScript libraries (Dojo, Prototype/Scriptaculous, MochiKit and Yahoo! UI).
Sounddogs Sound Effects, Production Music, Royalty Free Music, MP3 AIF WAV Sound Effects
SoundDogs.com, because you never know when you’ll need Sound Effects, Production Music, Royalty Free Music, MP3 AIF WAV Sound Effects
PlotKit with EasyPlot in TurboGears
PlotKit with EasyPlot in TurboGears nice and easy client-side graphing.
TG Site: MeCommerce 50% revenue split for bloggers
TechCrunch has the story today: GoodStorm to offer e-commerce widget with 50% revenue split for bloggers, talking about a new service called MeCommerce. There’s a whole bunch going on in this one that makes me take notice. 1) MeCommerce was put together by FrozenBear and runs TurboGears under the hood. 2) 50% of retail markup (not revenue, as TechCrunch states) is a sweet deal. 3) People can buy things without leaving your site… not necessary, but cool. 4) GoodStorm looks like a better deal than CafePress when it comes to shirts.
WebFaction gives 50% of profits to TurboGears
WebFaction, in addition to having the easiest TurboGears hosting, is now good for the project in another way: they are paying 50% of their profits from TurboGears hosting back to the project. That is money that I use to get services that benefit TurboGears itself.
Not sure who WebFaction is? WebFaction was formerly Python-Hosting.com. These guys know how to host TurboGears apps. After all, two of the principal folks from CherryPy are there!
A big thanks to Remi and co. at WebFaction!
iBox javascript
iBox is like Lightbox but can handle separate pages, inline divs and images. It’s also small (11K).