Online tools

Word HTML cleanup

There comes a point in the development of any content management system where you want to be able to paste rich-text content in from Microsoft Word. I've seen too many systems where users fall back on pasting the content into Notepad first to remove all of Word's HTML-nasties, but of course stripping out all the formatting too, which must be painstakingly re-entered through an HTML editor.

This online tool solves that problem, and is the result of many years of experience of integration between standards based systems and Microsoft Office.

Colour picker

I think every web developer has one of these squirrelled away somewhere. Here's mine – not fancy, not flash, just a half-hour-hack with the Python Imaging Library, aimed at providing something basic and usable for web developers.

Open source projects

Current projects

pesto web library

Released to the community, this ongoing project provides an intuitive and standards-compliant library for building WSGI applications. More information

Older projects

Croutons

A templating system aimed at allowing rapid re-use of design templates in a static website, based on the BeautifulSoup HTML library. Similar in scope to server side includes (SSI), but far more powerful. Go to the croutons project page.