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pivotal_tools (github.com)

Use pivotal tracker? Check out these command line tools for improving your pivotal workflow or for more info read the related blog post.  

paperwork (github.com)

Paperwork is a tool to OCR documents and make them searchable. Nice tool with a GTK/Glade UI.
 

simpleflake  (github.com)

Simply do distributed ID generation with simpleflake when you need globally unique ID’s.

MediaCrush (github.com)

This is neat. MediaCrush is a website that will compress uploaded media to be served super fast. Check out the readme for all the details or check out the site.

paasmaker (bitbucket.org)

Another open source PAAS enters the arena. Check out the source or website for more details.

pytest-osxnotify (github.com)

For all you OSX users out there who use py.test this is pretty great. Pytest-osxnotify will notify you with a native OSX notification with your test results when your test runs complete. Check it out.

cheat (github.com)

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What Every Coder Community Can Learn From Python (fastcolabs.com)

PyCon Canada was last week and in this article organizer Diana Clarke answers a series of questions about the Python community, diversity and PyCon Canada. Great article.

Frontend deployments with Yeoman and Fabric (stickyworld.com)

Pretty good tutorial to get your Yeoman deployments up and running with Fabric. Great easy to follow examples with code here.

PyPy.js Update: A Proof-of-Concept JIT (rfk.id.au)

PyPy.js is an attempt to port PyPy’s JIT to Javascript. Neat idea, click through for an update about this projects progress and some additional benchmarks of it in its current, limited, state.

Exploring grain settling with Python (hinderedsettling.com)

The game of life in Python (github.io)