Wikalong is a FirefoxExtension that embeds a wiki in the SideBar of your
browser, indexed off the url of your current page. It is probably most
simply described as a wiki-margin for the internet.
It's a simple and very useful approach to web annotation, based on an
extended version of the kwiki wiki clone.
Install the extension, and enjoy being able to add comments (in wiki
markup) ''attached'' to any web page. Annotations are stored globally as
wiki pages, on the Wikalong website, for everyone to share.
Future versions will include the kwiki extension, so you can run your
own private wikalong server.
Check it out at: http://wikalong.phunnel.org/
Getting Things Done -- GTD for short -- seems to be the productivity program taking over the world right now.
Like many others, I too have been reading the book lately, and found it very inspiring.
Merlin Mann wrote about his setup, and how he organized his set of lists -- nerd style. His [43 Folders][] blog is dedicated all things related to GTD, from a personal perspective.
A really great source of inspiring ideas for anyone interested in getting organized.
http://www.43folders.com/
Edgewall Software presents, our latest release - Trac 0.8 ''Qualia''.
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Mentionable Python discovery of the day:
DOMForm is a Python module for web scraping and web testing. It knows how to
evaluate embedded JavaScript code in response to appropriate events.
Basically it's a python DOM implementation with JavaScript support (using
the Mozilla Spidermonkey JavaScript-C engine).
It's great for screen scraping and, apparently planned for inclusion in in
Mechanize.
Mechanize
Worthy of notice is Mechanize, a stateful programmatic web browsing
module. It's very useful for web unit testing.
Check it out at:
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Here's an idea stirring in my mind lately.
I've been playing around with various implementations of
browser auto-completion. This, combined with the
XMLHttpRequest allows for some pretty nifty ''live search''
widgets.
I'm planning to add a search functionality like this to the
python sidebar, probably using Swish-E and a custom
search term ''extraction'' script to scrape the documentation.
When you type in the search field, the results should be weighted and
prioritized like:
- Built-in object names
- Standard Module names
- Standard Class names (in modules)
- Documentation headings
Selecting the result should open the relevant documentation page in the main
browser window.
