Jacob Kaplan-Moss: tools

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Pivotal Tracker

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)

Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk - Waxy.org

Use MT to get audio transcribed at 1/10th of the usual cost. I'm going to give this a shot with the video of my PyCon tutorial, with an eye towards getting all of the PyCon 2009 video transcribed. Wish me luck!

(amazon, aws, crowdsourcing, mechanicalturk, mturk, outsourcing, podcasting, tools, transcription, web)

Tools for News

A database of toolkits for presenting online news.

(multimedia, newmedia, snd, toolkit, tools)

Sad Trombone

Tagged “for:mccain”.

(awesome, funny, sadtrombone, soundeffect, tools, trombone)

Google Visualization API - Google Code

Google's visualization API — previously only available as widgets in a Google Spreadsheet — gets released for general use today. See also the Python library.

(apis, dataviz, google, programming, tools)

Earth Class Mail

Basically an online P.O. box; they'll scan & shred mail sent to a snail mail address. Kinda expensive, but sounds awesome.

(lifehacks, mail, office, paperless, pdf, postal, productivity, scanning, services, tools)

Splicd · Get Straight To The Point

Permalink directly to a point in time in a YouTube video. Awesome.

(tools, video, youtube)

Fusil - Trac

A library for writing fuzz testing programs.

(fuzz, python, testing, tools)

pgmigrate - Google Code

Another database migration tool. This one's not Django-specific (though it will work with Django), but it is PostgreSQL specific. I'm really quite happy with the competition in this space right now; it'll force any eventually Django built-in migration to

(database, migration, postgresql, python, schema, tools)

RubyForge: git-trac

Nice integration between git, git-svn, and Trac. Stupidly relies on scraping HTML instead of Trac's XML-RPC interface, but otherwise pretty damn nice.

(git, gitsvn, scm, svn, tools, trac, workflow)

clonus3 - Google Code

Alex's excellent sync-to-s3 script that I didn't realized he'd open-sourced.

(backup, friends, s3, tools)

etckeeper

“etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, or bzr repository.” Neat.

(bzr, etc, git, hg, linux, sysadmin, tools, vcs)

Bluelounge - SpaceStation

Want.

(organization, tools, wires)

xmldiff

“a python tool that figures out the differences between two similar XML files, in the same way the diff utility does” Seems a bit buggy, but might be useful

(diff, python, tools, xml)

RNV

“RNV is an implementation of Relax NG Compact Syntax validator in ANSI C. The command-line utility uses Expat. It is distributed under BSD license.” Sweet!

(relaxng, rnc, schema, tools, validation, xml)

subversion: Subversion Tools and Contrib

A bunch of tools in svn contrib that I always seem to forget about. Some real gems here.

(subversion, tools)

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)

Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information

New in Google Spreadsheets: publish a web form which submits data into your spreadsheet. This is completely brilliant. I can see this being incredibly useful. Yet another reason never to use Excel again.

(data, database, forms, google, spreadsheet, tools)

Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Prevent Pegboard Pull-Out With Pegmate

Gotta get me some of these.

(pegboard, tools, wishlist)

Piston ~ Easy Vendor Branch Management

“Piston is a utility that eases vendor branch management. This is similar to svn:externals, except you have a local copy of the files, which you can modify at will. As long as the changes are mergeable, you should have no problems.” Nifty.

(development, ruby, scm, svn, tools)

Revision 59590: /doctools/trunk

The new toolchain for the Python docs. Lots of smart stuff going on in here.

(documentation, docutils, markup, python, restructuredtext, tools)

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)

Another PostgreSQL Diff Tool - Welcome to Another PostgreSQL Diff Tool

Diff two PG schemas. Very cool.

(database, db, postgresql, programming, schema, tools, via:jdunck)

Lala.com: Home

The newly launched lala.com is fucking amazing. Scan/upload music from your computer, and then play it anywhere (along with a *bunch* of other music). Already a killer app, I think.

(audio, music, tools)

Welcome to SeatGuru! Your Guide to Airplane Seats and In-flight Amenities

Finally bookmarking this because I always forget the URL. It's a fantastic tool to help you figure out where to sit on those long flights.

(airline, airlines, airplane, flights, reference, seating, tools, travel)

pktstat

Like top, but for network usage. Highly recommended.

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

Ganglia Monitoring System

“Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids.”

(performance, rrd, scaling, statistics, stats, sysadmin, tools, visualization, web)

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)

R/SPlus - Python Interface

Python/R connectors.

(graphics, math, python, R, statistics, stats, tools)

Varnish - Trac

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

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

Bitten - Trac

Continuous integration tool that integrates with Trac. We really should get this set up for Django…

(python, tools, trac)

svn-foreign

A tool to review an svn repository with new files/conflicts and quickly decide what to do with them. Pretty nifty.

(pycon2007, python, svn, tools)

pydoctor

YA python to API doc tool. But this one's by mwh, so it's likely a cut above.

(development, documentation, generator, programming, pycon2007, pydoc, python, tools)

PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy - Cheesecake - Trac

An amazing breakdown of the various Python testing tools — there are even more of them then web frameworks!

(code, lists, pycon2007, python, testing, tools, webdev)

Application Traffic Management, Application Security

Commercial (and expensive) load balancer (++)

(deployment, load, pycon2007, software, tools)

Docvert [current 3.0]

Word -> ODF converter. Coooooool.

(converter, microsoft, odf, tools, word)

Index of /sandbox/dkuhlman/OpenDocument

reST —> ODT converter. Works very well, unlike some of the other converters in the docutils sandbox.

(book, docutils, for:holovaty, odf, odt, openoffice, tools)

geo-* - Linux tools for geocaching

(geocaching, gps, linux, software, tools)

FlightAware - Free Flight Tracker - IFR Flight Status, Tracking, History, Maps

*The* source for flight geekery

(airlines, flight, geek, maps, tools, tracking, travel)

Svnmerge.py - SubversionWiki

Part of SVN 1.4, this looks like a *much* more sane way of handling branches. Must investigate further…

(merge, scm, svn, tools)

SkypeGarage/DbProjects/SkyTools - Skype Developer Zone

Replication, WAL shipping, queuing tools for PostgreSQL, developed by Skype.

(postgresql, replication, tools, to-poke-at)

Hamachi : Stay Connected

A super-simple VPN. Awesome

(networking, software, tools, via:exasparilla, vpn)

Google Groups: rec.woodworking: How to buy a miter saw

(hardware, shopping, tools, woodworking)

Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen

Nifty font utility for browsers

(css, fonts, tools, typography, web, webdev)

MDB Tools - Unlocking Your Data

(database, microsoft, msaccess, tools)

Big Blue Saw - Home

Seriously cool: “Big Blue Saw can turn your CAD file into real parts using our state of the art robotic tools. We offer instant quotes and online ordering.”

(fabrication, parts, tools)