Transfer mode set to Awesome http://transfermodeawesome.posterous.com Dorkly bits on Exchange, Windows, software and whatever else I can think of. posterous.com Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:04:28 -0800 The Essential Guide to @font-face http://transfermodeawesome.posterous.com/the-essential-guide-to-font-face http://transfermodeawesome.posterous.com/the-essential-guide-to-font-face http://sixrevisions.com/css/font-face-guide/

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Here's a great article on free fonts and web fonts for use with sites.

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Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:18:37 -0800 Identifont identifies fonts by description, partial name or sample http://transfermodeawesome.posterous.com/identifont-identifies-fonts-by-description-pa http://transfermodeawesome.posterous.com/identifont-identifies-fonts-by-description-pa http://www.identifont.com/

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If you work with the web, you work with fonts, it's that simple.  Along with graphics, fonts carry a tremendous amount of emotiveness.  Choosing the right font can make or break that feel you want for your site.

Unfortunately, fonts aren't easy to deal with.  First of all, there's a zillion of them.  Additionally, once you find one you want, it's usually one you have to buy!  All those fonts don't come cheap.

So, what's there to do?  Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to get the web to tell me "what's a free font that looks like this commercial one?".  However, you can describe the characteristics of the font you want to the Identifont service, and it will give you a list of similar fonts, some of which *may* be free.  It requires a bit of elbow grease and it's not 100% successful, but I *have* been able to find free font substitutes for the ones I've wanted by using it.

If you're just looking for the name of a font that you have in a graphic, you can use Identifont or the also excellent WhatTheFont! service at http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/, part of MyFonts.

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Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:41:27 -0800 isapi-wsgi - An ISAPI WSGI Handler http://transfermodeawesome.posterous.com/isapi-wsgi-an-isapi-wsgi-handler http://transfermodeawesome.posterous.com/isapi-wsgi-an-isapi-wsgi-handler http://code.google.com/p/isapi-wsgi/

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This is a wsgi handler for Python scripts which I was able to use successfully with older versions of Mercurial's web server script.  No details on the implementation at the moment, except for the fact that I was able to model the Mercurial script's installation on the test installation provided by the wsgi handler.

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