The Larch Environment. Worth a look - a visual programming environment for Python. Interesting detail: objects are not just displayed textually, but also graphically represented via a dedicated mechanism - sounds a bit like output-recording from CLIM. Additionally, the whole thing is structured more like an interactive document - comparable to various mathematical systems (e.g., Mathematica or Maxima). Unfortunately, it's not based on the standard Python environment, but on Jython - so JVM as the runtime underneath.
Archive 24. June 2011
I should check this out - it allows you to run AppEngine programs on your own servers that are based on Django (the AppEngine APIs are emulated using Django means). Certainly better than using the AppEngine Dev-Server directly.
DocumentClouds VisualSearch.js. Interesting JavaScript library that implements a quite powerful search field - you can search for normal texts or for facets of the data (i.e. specific fields such as title or author) with automatic completion for these fields. This is particularly interesting for document search in semi-structured data sets and the presentation in the browser is nicely done. Good compromise for search fields into which you do not just want to put simple text searches like Google, but possibly also restrictions on metadata, without the user having to know all the options for metadata by heart in their exact syntax.
Journey North: Monarch Butterfly - what actually happens in the pupa from which an insect emerges? Was a question that always fascinated me as a child - the caterpillar digests itself and forms the nutrient solution for the formation of the butterfly from individual cells.