Archive 8. October 2010

briss - a very interesting tool that can crop PDFs to remove unnecessary page margins, for example, to make the text larger on eBook readers. Especially with book readers, these white margins are absolutely irrelevant and the text enlargement does not always match the margin width, which often leads to annoying page turning.

Camelot - See it - quite obvious: take Python and an ORM (here SQLAlchemy) and make a 4G language for database programming with QT as a graphical interface. The whole thing here as a GPL project for which you can also get commercial licenses if you want to create commercial programs with it.

Downloads for diva's d2 - GitHub - pre-made OpenSim packages with HyperGrid extension. I should use this to set up my own small grid for testing and see if people can jump in, because if all this works, it would be an important step towards solving Second Life.

uncertainties Python package v1.7.0 documentation - a very interesting Python module that allows you to use floats with uncertainties in functions. Particularly interesting for situations where you need to track error propagation in calculations (e.g. planning figures or measurement data).