I’ve sometimes used feature branches and have never had the issues Martin Fowler talks about in this article. I can see how they would arise, but I suppose I’ve either employed continuous integration techniques or just been very lucky. Fowler writes of two methods in which feature branches can be tamed — promiscuous integration and … Read more

I generally avoid the practice these decorators are trying to ease, namely type-checking on methods, but it’s useful to have around.

“Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike.” Some great-looking charts, but slow and reliant on Flash.

Aviary is an online suite of free tools for image and sound editing. Tools are split into Phoenix (an image editor), Falcon (a desktop/window grabber), Peacock (an effects editor), Myna (an audio remixer), Raven (a vector editor) and Toucan (a colour swatch editor).

This page details how MongoKit can be integrated into Pylons’ configuration.