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Usage Statistics parsing and querying with redis and python 26 Mar 2010 | 09:36 pm
This is an update of my previous dabblings with chomping through log files. To summarise where I am now: I have a distributable workflow, loosely coordinated using Redis and Supervisord - redis is us...
Curating content from one repository to put into another 26 Mar 2010 | 02:42 am
First you need a little code that I've written: sudo easy_install recordsilo oaipmhscraper (This should install all the dependencies for the following) To harvest some OAI-PMH records from say... h...
My swiss army toolkit for distributed/multiprocessing systems 12 Feb 2010 | 12:45 am
My first confession - I avoid 'threading' and shared memory. Avoid it like the plague, not because I cannot do it but because it can be a complete pain to build and maintain relative to the alternativ...
Usage stats and Redis 19 Jan 2010 | 06:19 am
Redis has been such a massively useful tool to me. Recently, it has let me cut through access logs munging like a hot knife through butter, all with multiprocessing goodness. Key things: Using sets...
Python in a Pairtree 15 Oct 2009 | 09:30 pm
(Thanks to @anarchivist for the title - I'll let him take all the 'credit') "Pairtree? huh, what's that?" - in a nutshell it's 'just enough veneer on top of a conventional filesystem' for it to be ab...
What is a book if you can print one in 5 minutes? 20 Jun 2009 | 04:28 am
There exists technology now, available in bookshops and certain forward-thinking libraries, to print a book in 5 minutes from pressing Go, to getting the book into your hands. This excites me a lot. ...
RDF + UI + Fedora for object metadata (RDF) editing 15 May 2009 | 09:22 pm
Just a walkthrough of something I am trying to implement at the moment: Requirements: For the Web UI: Using jQuery and 3 plugins: jEditable, autocomplete and rdfquery. jeditable: http://www.appels...
Early evaluation and serialisation of preservation policy decisions. 30 Mar 2009 | 09:43 pm
(Apologies, as this has been a draft when I thought it published. I have updated it to reflect changes that have been made since we started doing this.) It may be policy to make sure that the archive...
We need people! 20 Mar 2009 | 01:46 am
(UPDATE - Grrr.... seems that the concept of persistent URLs is lost on the admin - link below has been removed - see google cached copy here) http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/ps/oao/ar/ar3979j.shtml - job ...
Developer Happiness days - why happyness is important 26 Feb 2009 | 03:09 am
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...
