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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On Mar 25, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Ross Singer wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Aaron Rubinstein
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> 
>> 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.