John Gruber’s SmartyPants script is a great tool for converting a body of text into a more typographically correct and visually appealing version. Chad Miller’s Python port makes it really easy to implement this functionality as a template tag, but I wanted to take it a step further and use SmartyPants as a Markdown pre-processor, just as I did with Pygments.
So Python 3.0 is finally out. I have already gone over the What’s New document, but I’ll need to do a few more readings before I grasp every change. I am curious to see how this will affect the Django release schedules.
I just found out about this nifty little SIMBL plug-in. I am not crazy about OS X hacks like these, but it’s definitely interesting to be able to add some user scripting capability to Safari and all other WebKit applications. I wish Apple provided a proper plug-in API for extending functionality.
24 Ways has had some good articles in the past few years, and they are back this year with more. I am not crazy about the new design, but I am sure the content will be worth it.
I like working with JavaScript classes, but I really don’t like the way I have to contruct them. I have been researching a way to clean up this process a few months back, and after reading about how base2 and Prototype.js do it, I stumbled upon John Resig’s Simple JavaScript Inheritance method. It’s simply brilliant, and so easy to turn into a proper jQuery plug-in.
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