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Gareth Rushgrove recently gave a presentation on Django Testing. It goes over what testing is, when to test, how to test, and features his django-test-extensions. Thanks Gareth! (As an aside,…

Plenty of awesome projects this week! Oh, you want to be featured too? It’s easy! Featured Project ioke is a new JVM-based language that allows the programmer to simplify code…

ClickToFlash is a plugin for WebKit that prevents Adobe Flash content from automatically loading. Instead, it replaces the content with a placeholder that you can click to load the original…

Ever wanted to run a single command in your website’s images directory and have every image losslessly optimized (compressed) in place? Now you can, with the smusher gem. I just…

Want an easier way to manage all your conversation on GitHub? Check out CommitChat. They’re currently in a closed beta but you can sign up to join.  Great job…

Bioclipse (a Java-based, open source, visual platform for chemo- and bioinformatics) has scripting support and the community has developed a great method for sharing those scripts: Gist! They create Gists…

If you’re in the UK and want to become a Git master overnight, I will be conducting a Git workshop with Charlie Smurthwaite, one of our friends at Codebase, in…

Please read GitHub Help – Setting up a custom domain with Pages for the most up-to-date information on setting up a CNAME on your account.

script.aculo.us’ Thomas Fuchs is releasing various goodies in his prototype_helpers repository. They seem to mostly be extractions from his time tracking app freckle. A great one is @defaultValueActsAsHint@, which adds…

BlogBridge looks pretty interesting: an open source, cross platform RSS reader. Their visual tour shows off many of the innovative features. And guess what? They’re hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/pitosalas/blogbridge …

The RestfulX Framework is a framework for quickly developing Adobe Flex and AIR applications. The project makes great use of GitHub Pages and the Wiki.  From the site: If…

I’ll be speaking at MeshU in Toronto on April 6th, 2009. So far the only announced speakers are myself and Ryan Singer (rjs) of 37signals. My workshop will be titled…

A bit late, but always delivered. All of the projects and people featured this week crank the volume to 11! (Stats Breakdown lost its passport on vacation, and hopefully will…

We hit two birds with one deploy today. First, some of you may have seen a very well reasoned constructive criticism of our header user block content on the 37Signals…

Compojure is a Clojure web framework similar to web.py or Sinatra. Your browser does not support IFrames The project also has a Wikibook and mailing list. Looks cool.