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 > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Rochkind > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:36 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > 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 > > > > > > -- > Jonathan Rochkind > Digital Services Software Engineer > The Sheridan Libraries > Johns Hopkins University > 410.516.8886 > rochkind (at) jhu.edu