On Mar 25, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
> ...GitHub/Google Code and their ilk... ...What would be useful... ...is an aggregation of the Code4lib's community spread across these sites, sort of what like the Planet does for blog postings...
I love this idea.
-b
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Birkin James Diana
Programmer, Integrated Technology Services
Brown University Library
birkin_diana_at_brown.edu
birkinbrown_at_googlewave.com
On Mar 25, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Aaron Rubinstein
> <arubinst_at_library.umass.edu> wrote:
>
>> This is some of the best advice. Reading and adapting good code has been my
>> favorite way to learn. There was a discussion a couple years back on a
>> code4lib code repository of some kind[1]. I'd love to resurrect this idea.
>> A private pastebin[2] might be a decent option. I also know that a number
>> of us use GitHub[3], which allows for collecting syntax highlighted code
>> snippets and has some nifty social networking features that let you follow
>> other coders and projects. GitHub is certainly not a solution for a
>> code4lib repository but is another way to share code and learn from each
>> other.
>>
>
> I disagreed with this back in the day, and I still disagree with
> running our own code repository. There are too many good code hosting
> solutions out there for this to be justifiable. We used to run an SVN
> repo at code4lib.org, but we never bothered rebuilding it after our
> server got hacked.
>
> Actually I think GitHub/Google Code and their ilk are a much better
> solution -- especially for pastebins/gists/etc. What would be useful,
> though, is an aggregation of the Code4lib's community spread across
> these sites, sort of what like the Planet does for blog postings, etc.
> or what Google Buzz does for the people I follow (i.e. I see their
> gists).
>
> I'd buy in to that (and help support it), but I'm not sure how one
> would go about it.
>
> -Ross.
Received on Fri Mar 26 2010 - 11:35:28 EDT