As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I’m preparing bi-annual reviews of what I — and projects I’m involved in — have been up to. So, herewith are some some highlights from the last 6 months.
CKAN and the theDataHub Finalized separation of software and site: CKAN = data hub software, theDataHub.org = community [...]As part of recent work on the DataExplorer I’ve been looking into formats / schemas for tabular data and have just posted this info on the wiki:
http://wiki.ckan.org/Data_Formats#Formats_-_Tabular
The list is quite short and if anyone out there has useful links or comments I’d love to know more (as one example, I hear [...]
Any pointers to existing js utility libraries for working with data (e.g. convert to/from standard services, parse dates etc)?
Ongoing and incomplete review of javascript templating systems and frameworks.
Templating Unobtrusive (HTML + JSON) weld https://github.com/hij1nx/weld tags: unobtrusive beta minimal.js https://github.com/ruidlopes/minimal.js tags: unobtrusive ‘Standard’ Templating Browser jquery.tmpl / jqtpl https://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl / https://github.com/kof/node-jqtpl tags: nodejs jquery browser beta tempo http://twigkit.github.com/tempo/ Listings https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules#templating Many of these work with browser Testing [...]Documenting my experience pushing mercurial repos to git (and github specifically).
Install hg-gitFollow https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git/src/tip/README.md
Install dulwich >= 0.6. On ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-dulwichGet the latest version of hg-git:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-gitAdd it to your extensions
[extensions] git = path/to/hg-git/hggit Push an existing mercurial repoAssuming you’ve got a git repo [...]
A new release (v0.8) of datapkg, the tool for distributing, discovering and installing data is out!
Release: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datapkg Docs: http://packages.python.org/datapkg/There’s a quick getting started section below (also see the docs).
About the releaseThis release brings substantial improvements to the download functionality of datapkg including support for extending the [...]
The following is cross-posted from the Open Knowledge Foundation blog post. It reports the results of the code-sprint reported in this previous blog post.
Today we’re announcing a simple new app (also submitted to World Bank Apps competition) that allows anyone to say what kind of world, what ‘YourTopia’, they would like [...]
A few members of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s nascent open economics working group are having a code-sprint this Friday and Saturday to work on an app for the world bank competition currently called ‘Open HDI’ (Human Development Index):
[Update] http://yourtopia.net we’ve renamed to YourTopia http://openhdi.org/ – stub website (it’s what we’ll [...]Announcing pywordpress, a python interface to WordPress using the WordPress XML-RPC API.
Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywordpress/ Source code: https://bitbucket.org/rgrp/pywordpress/ Usage Command lineCheck out the commands::
wordpress.py -hYou will need to create a config with the details (url, login) of the wordpress instance you want to work with::
cp config.ini.tmpl config.ini # now [...]A major new release (v0.7) of datapkg is out!
Release: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datapkg Docs: http://packages.python.org/datapkg/There’s a quick getting started section below (also see the docs).
About the releaseThis release brings major new functionality to datapkg especially in regard to its integration with CKAN. datapkg now supports uploading as well [...]
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