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from the book - "Building Websites with Plone"

The basics of creating a content type which extends ATContentTypes

very nice tutorial. Surprised to know that even Elvish follows similar rules to Kannada when creating complex alphabets... perhaps I should write a blog post with the comparisons :)

most people don’t realize that there’s a LOT more search engines out there than just the Big Four: Google, Yahoo, AOL, or MSN. In fact, there are literally hundreds of really great niche, or vertical, search engines that focus on all kinds of topics:

zope and plone blog

News, stories, and wisecracks from the world of Zope.

Blog on stuff that is extraordinary, better than similar products, little-known, and reliably useful for an individual or small group. recommendations here, are based on people who have used this item and many similar and have come to see its superiority.

on Artima.com. This should be on every Pythonistas daily reading list

geeky comic strip Has all the freefall cartoon strips till date.

Improve your Humour Quotient. One article at a time..

This might come handy when I start cooking ;)

A very easy to follow tutorial on how to create firefox extensions. With Pictures :)

This reference card lists some of the most common commands for the Emacs text editor

from onlamp.com

here is a list of some of the best Web 2.0 software from web2.wsj2.com

python MVC web development framework using Myghty

gallery of well made websites

gallery of brilliantly designed sites

articles on programming productivity languages, design patterns ... from an ex amazon.

papers on R statistical computing and visualisation.

imagine a gigapixel photo !!

(Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox December 2005)

colorisation software

many "theories?" like The Broken Window explained

Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!

Durus, a persistent object system for applications written in the Python programming language.

Could a modern evolutionary algorithm and a huge input sample discover a better arrangement?

tutorials on using ZODB in standalone mode

two good options for an embedded, transactional database that can be conveniently used in a non-free Python application: the ZODB and sqlite.

A Short Guide to a Long Life.... excerpts from the book "fantastic voyage". strongly recommends pure vegetarian food habits. has useful charts and tables

Ah… blogs - one of the best ways to waste lots of time. Here are the top 10 tips for being more productive when reading blogs.

" Stay Current and Informed " says India centric del.icio.us like social bookmarking site.

slides from presentation given to ChiPy

AHAH is a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript). It involves using XMLHTTPRequest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHTTP) to retrieve (X)HTML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML)

Reddit has been entirely rewritten in Python during some marathon coding sessions over the past couple weeks.

Understand that it’s the compelling goal — the vision — that creates the drive, not the other way around. People don’t normally drive super-fast when they can’t see where they’re going.