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I think a snippet repository would be a fantastic idea that would fit well within the code4lib website.  Dokuwiki would also be a good fit for this and would allow people to share the "oai harvester in under 50 lines", etc.

snippet.code4lib.org++

Andrew

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> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Jonathan Rochkind
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:36 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] place for code examples?
>
> I don't know if it's the best solution, but you could use the code4lib
> wiki if you like. wiki.code4lib.org.  Won't have code formatting or
> anything like that.
>
> Incidentally, I'm interested in getting a DokuWiki installation going
> for code4lib, which I think will serve our needs somewhat better than
> the current MediaWiki.  But that goes back to the thread I introduced
> which died about how to grant shell access to code4libbers on the OSU
> hosted code4lib.org.  Everyone seemed to agree that one or two or three
> code4libbers were neccesary to accept responsibility as "app admin
> coordinator" on the machine, but nobody actually volunteered to do
> that,
> so we're a bit stuck.  If we had a process/structure in place, and
> there
> was an app you wanted installed on code4lib.org to do this, there might
> be a way to do that---depending on what process/structure we come up
> with. But without one...
>
> Jonathan
>
> Keith Jenkins wrote:
> > Does there already exist some place to put some code examples to
> share
> > with the code4lib community?  (I'm thinking of snippets somewhere on
> > the order of 10-100 lines, like the definition of a php function.)
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
>
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> Johns Hopkins University
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