Firstly, I have finally brought my (X)HTML link testing script TestLinks up to a high enough standard to make it worth releasing. You can read all about it and download it from here. It’s just a simple script designed to be run from cron and let you know if any links on your sites go stale. Simple, but useful. It’s written in Python, of course.

Secondly, I realised that although I wrote the GetAuWeather page and linked to it from my software page way back in July, I never actually put a link to the code in there. This has been fixed. GetAuWeather is a simple Python module for downloading Australian weather observations from the Bureau of Meteorology’s website and parsing it up into sensible Pythonic data structures. At the moment it’s just a function for doing that. One day I will use this to make something useful, probably by writing a daemon to constantly throw new weather data into an SQLite database (taking advantage of the SQLite support new to Python 2.5) and then making a fancy web interface to this database.