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A method for flexibly using external services
aka “How I picture a simple REST mechanism for queuing tasks with external services, such as transformation of PDFs to images, Documents to text, or scanning, file format identification.”Example:...
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Trackbacks, and spammers, and DDoS, oh my!
The Idea Before I give you all the dark news about this, let me set out my position: I really, really think that repositories communicating the papers that are cited and referenced to each other is a...
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DSpace and Fedora *need* opinionated installers.
Just to say that both Fedora-Commons and DSpace really, really need opinionated installers that make choices for the user. Getting either installed is a real struggle – which we demonstrated during the...
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Developer Happiness days – why happyness is important
Creativity and innovation One of the defining qualities of a good innovative developer is creativity and a pragmatic attitude; someone with the ‘rough consensus, running code‘ mentality that pervades...
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The Open Scholarship Mnemonic
Open Scholarship’s ABCD‘s: Open Access: Everyone should be able to access funded research and scholarship without requiring institutional affiliation or subscription. Open Bibliography: Everyone should...
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Student Property Heatmap
Github link: https://github.com/benosteen/gheatmap (adapted from the pylons application of http://code.google.com/p/gheat/) Installation hints: Use a virtualenv ($ virtualenv ../env_app ; source...
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BBC BigScreens
It all started, as it often does these days, with a tweet: From Louise Angell (@louise_angell) #bbcbigscreens are keen to hear from developers/artists interested in creating interactive games &...
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RaspberryPi birdfeeder webcam
This isn’t so much a Howto (as other people have already written that up very nicely) but a post on what I am using one of my Pi’s for. The first gotcha is that for some unknown reason, the default,...
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Gloomy education? (Creative writing and card games)
This isn’t a rant about the state of modern education. Rather, I want to talk about a somewhat melancholy card game called ‘Gloom’ (info) (amazon). Gloom is a game of “inauspicious incidents and grave...
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Conway’s Game of Life, interpreted in sound.
Some videos you find on Youtube fill you with questions. Questions like ‘why did I just spend 2 minutes of my life watching that?’ or ‘what is this?’ Sometimes though, you find videos that fill you...
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