2009
Gearman C Server and Library in Launchpad
by greut
This is a rewrite (in C) of the Perl version found at http://danga.com/gearman/. It includes the both a client/worker library, as well as the server. The server acts as a bridge between workers (clients who can do work) and callers (clients who want work done). You should run several servers (at least two) for both load balancing and high availability.
Another nice background tasks tool.
2008
Jonas Galvez : /log
by greut
Django's templating system is often a pain to work with, and XML libraries for Python are also not stellar, so I decided to take advantage of Python's with statement and wrote a XML generation library somewhat similar to Ruby's Builder.
great example of the "with" usage
Georges Bataille Electronic Library
by rike_
Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a wide-ranging body of work that includes philosophy, economics, poetry, and pornography. In all of these writings, Bataille was concerned to articulate a "science of the heterogeneous," a philosophy of everything repudiated by civil society: shit, blood, sacrifice, deviance, violence. The wellsprings of this philosophy apparently lay in personal experience — in particular his childhood with a suicidal mother and a blind, syphilitic father — and yet his ideas resonated deeply with other mid-century philosophy (for example, shit in Bataille's system was analogous to the "other" in Phenomenology and Existentialism) and helped to pave the way to contemporary "theory."
2007
2006
Outgoing: MXG and OpenSearch
by jambe
What this amounts to is a prescribed way to dumb-down SRU, almost all the way to Open Search, but doing it in a way that is compatible with SRU.
