Welcome to scritch.org
Scritch.org is where I host my experiments, brainfarts and toy projects. Currently, the following projects are available:
- Fetch, a HTTP header analyzer/debugging tool. A more convenient way of doing "telnet port 80" which I used to do a lot before writing Fetch. While you're at it, have a look at what cookies and headers my blog is setting!. Fetch is built with Django.
- Guess, a CMS/Web framework detector. As a web developer, I'm often curious what's powering a site. It already manages to detect a very wide range of CMS-es, frameworks, languages, web/application servers, and so on. But more about that in a later post. Meanwhile, use guess to find out what this blog is running.. Guess is also built with Django.
- "Litter Social". Whenever I get new followers I wonder why people connect. Using this tool you can find out which friends/followers you share on twitter. Also, I just wanted to experiment with the Twitter API (which is really nice actually!). Litter is built with Pylons.
- rot8 (rotate, duh!) is a toy to annoy people by simply rotating any (well, most) webpage. It uses css3 rotation transform support for this, combined with some javascript and some python magic. If you still don't get it, just make this blog rotate and get dizzy. rot8 is built with Pylons (and shares some code with Guess/Fetch)
- RCTK, a python UI library for the web. Unlike most web toolkits, it doesn't require the standard stateless MVC client-server/RPC approach. You can write long-running processes that have a direct interaction with the user interface, much like (exactly like, actually) traditional "desktop" toolkits such as Qt, wxPython, gtk+, and so on. Check out the Demo. RCTK is written in plain python with lots of jQuery on the "client side". But since RCTK is a fully Open Source UI toolkit, just have a look yourself!