"Reading all the SXSW press always makes me nostalgic for my time in Austin and the 3 years I spent working at Audiogalaxy.com, a music startup. Here is a history of the company from the perspective of the first full-time programmer. This is the first of three parts."
'Snake Wrangling for Kids is a printable electronic book, for children 8 years and older, who would like to learn computer programming. It covers the very basics of programming, and uses the Python programming language to teach the concepts.'
"Cytoscape is an open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks and integrating these interactions with gene expression profiles and other state data."
"DrProject is a lightweight software project management portal designed for classroom use that is equally effective for other small teams and fast-moving projects. It supports multiple projects per portal, each with its own ticket database, Subversion repository, wiki, and mailing list, and is 100% open source."
"The DojoX implementation implements the full infrastructure of the Django Template Language. This language, as implemented in the Django Project is limited to text, since it only deals with page serving. While Dojo's implementation also works with text, it has an additional layer that allows us to dynamically render blocks of HTML.
Existing templates should work without fuss using Dojo's implementation."
"PyCon-Tech is a conference management framework based on Django framework. While PyCon-Tech is intended for the various Python Conferences, anyone can use the framework or Apps therein which are released under the Python License."
"Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the following web repositories for missing resources: Internet Archive, Google, Live Search, and Yahoo. All of the resources are gathered together and provided to you as a single collection of files. Please read our disclaimer."
"The project aims to improve the efficiency and quality of repository deposit and to diversity and expedite the options for timely population of repositories with content whilst promoting a common deposit interface and supporting the Information Environment principles of interoperability."
Carroll, Bizer, et al. Abstract: "The Semantic Web consists of many RDF graphs nameable by URIs. This paper extends the syntax and semantics of RDF to cover such Named Graphs. This enables RDF statements that describe graphs, which is beneficial in many Semantic Web application areas. As a case study, we explore the application area of Semantic Web publishing: Named Graphs allow publishers to communicate assertional intent, and to sign their graphs; information consumers can evaluate specific graphs using task-specific trust policies, and act on information from those Named Graphs that they accept. Graphs are trusted depending on: their content; information about the graph; and the task the user is performing. The extension of RDF to Named Graphs provides a formally defined framework to be a foundation for the Semantic Web trust layer."
"rlwrap is a 'readline wrapper' that uses the GNU readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any other command. Input history is remembered across invocations, separately for each command; history completion and search work as in bash and completion word lists can be specified on the command line." niiiice.
Note with pride that unalog (although at the bottom) made the "top 50" list of bookmarking sites, with more than 10% of the traffic of the industry leader.
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"The key goals of this pilot project are to firstly give you a taste of the hidden treasures in the huge Library of Congress collection, and secondly to how your input of a tag or two can make the collection even richer."
"The aim of the MultiMatch project is to enable users to explore and interact with online accessible cultural heritage content, across media types and languages boundaries."
quicktime video demonstrating the working prototype. it only briefly shows of the multi-lingual aspect at the beginning - every other page you see works equally well in all seven languages, too.
"This paper presents the design and implementation of Dynamo, a highly available key-value storage system that some of Amazons core services use to provide an always-on experience. To achieve this level of availability, Dynamo sacrifices consistency under certain failure scenarios. It makes extensive use of object versioning and application-assisted conflict resolution in a manner that provides a novel interface for developers to use."