WatchWednesday for 20101013

Another Wednesday, another set of projects you might want to watch.

mauricemach / coffeekup

Released as a celebration of whyday, CoffeeKup brings the Markaby concept to CoffeeScript (featured in Episode 0.2.9).

body ->
  header ->
    h1 (@title or 'No Title')
    nav ->
      ul ->
        (li -> a href: '/', -> 'Home') unless @path is '/'
        li -> a href: '/chunky', -> 'Chunky'
        li -> a href: '/bacon', -> 'Bacon!'
  section ->
    h2 "Let's count to 10:"
    p i for i in [1..10]
  footer ->
    p 'Bye!'

hbons / SparkleShare

Currently Linux-only but with plans to support OS X and Windows, SparkleShare is a free (as in speech, beer) version of DropBox.

boto / boto

Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services, supporting

• Simple Storage Service (S3)
• SimpleQueue Service (SQS)
• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Mechanical Turk
• SimpleDB
• CloudFront
• CloudWatch
• AutoScale
• Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
• Relational Data Service (RDS)
• Simple Notification Server (SNS)
• Google Storage
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)

premasagar / cleanslate

CleanSlate is the scorched Earth version of CSS Resets, perfect for widget creators who need to guarantee the containing page won’t step on their styles.

c7 / leaf

Leaf is an ultra-lightweight, data source agnostic paginator library lifted from the classic will_paginate gem.