Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Drupal distribution specifically for web scraping:
"Tattler (app) is a Drupal Distribution, an open source topic monitoring tool for today's Web. Tattler finds and aggregates content from the Web on topics you ask it to monitor. Using semantic Web technologies, Tattler mines news, websites, blogs, multimedia sites, and other social media like Twitter, to find mentions of the issues most relevant to your organization."

Official introduction to Python

"online version of The Django Book, a free book about the Django Web framework for the Python programming language"
By Adrian Holovaty

Great article, finally got me started: "This article will walk you through the process of starting a new Django project and getting it running on Google App Engine by reproducing the initial steps of creating the Polls application from the official Django tutorial. At each step the changes required for the App Engine environment are highlighted."

"helper that eases the process of creating a Django project to run on the Google App Engine.

The helper currently provides:

* The ability to use most manage.py commands
* A BaseModel class that appears the same as the standard Django Model class.
* The ability to serialize and deserialize model instances to JSON, YAML and XML.
* Access to Django's test framework with a test datastore and support for fixtures.
* The ability to send email via the App Engine mail API using the standard Django mail functions.
* An App Engine compatible implementation of the Django authentication framework. Only users are supported at this time. Group and Permission support is not implemented.
* Support for the Django memcache cache backend module.
* Support for the db and cache session backed modules. "

The result of the Thesis versus Automattic debate:
"The PHP is GPLv2; CSS, JS, and images are proprietary."

"WordPress themes are code, and they run together in the same process as WordPress, so they get infected with the GPL. Some theme developers disagree; this article lays out the reasoning to show that they are wrong. "
(Argumentation by a lead WordPress developer in the Thesis versus Automattic licensing debate)

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# Websnapr
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# Thumbalizr
# SnapCasa
# ShrinkTheWeb
# WebThumb
# Thumbshots.com
# Alexa Site Thumbnail Service

5$ plastic iPhone stand… seems like a nice birthday or other gift. Fits in your wallet.
The maker became famous earlier by a Youtube video where he did the same with a simple paperclip.

Email version of the "Acceptgiro".
The receiver of the payment sends out this email, his data and the data of the payment are already prefilled. Clicking through brings you in an iDEAL environment where the consumer only has to confirm the payment.
"Digitale nota" is an alternative, but is limited to ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank – see more at http://www.viamijnbank.nl/

This seems to be the best iphone/ipad app at the moment to read pdf files on either ipad or iPhone. Especially the Dropbox integration seems nice!
(review at http://www.geardiary.com/2010/04/12/how-to-view-pdf-files-on-an-ipad/ )

"Pydev is a Python IDE for Eclipse, which may be used in Python, Jython and IronPython developmen"

Really useful:
"As data expressed as JSON is often written without line breaks to save space, it became extremely difficult to actually read it. This tool hopes to solve the problem by formatting the JSON into data that is easily readable by human beings. "

one-stop shop for all of your geodata + api needs.
"
While we see Apple’s Core Location service and Google Latitude API as a great way of acquiring a user’s location, the SimpleGeo API is what you do with that location"