Cappuccino/Objective-J and URLTextField
I wanted to display a link in a Cappuccino web application but there doesn't seem to be a very "nice" way of doing that so I wrote up the URLTextField class. It's basically a regular CPTextField but the CPTextFields DOMElement is wrapped in another DOMElement that provides the anchor tag. Use it like a normal CPTextField and call setStringValue: with the text you'd like displayed for the link, and use setLink: with a valid URL to set the link. A convenience initWithFrame:link:title: is also available that sets it all up from the get-go.
A Python repeatable threading.Timer class
I had a function that I wanted to be called repeatedly every x seconds but couldn't find a nice way of doing this. The python threading module has a Timer class which will wait for the given number of seconds and then execute the passed in callable object. Unfortunately, once it has executed that code it is no longer useable. So based upon that class I whipped up the following RepeatableTimer. It's not "hard real-time" or anything since it doesn't account for the time taken to execute the given function, but it's good enough for what I needed.
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