Mainly technological stuff today (but a lot ;-)). Focus on Python libs and tools, Semantic Web, OpenSouce GIS stuff as well as physical computing (something new for me):
Python Libs and Tools:
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(1.2 MB) – Feb. 2, 2007 ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files. ExifTool supports many different types of metadata including EXIF, G
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Elixir is a declarative layer on top of SQLAlchemy. It is a fairly thin wrapper, which provides the ability to define model objects following the Active Record design pattern, and using a DSL syntax similar to that of the Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord system
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Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful: 1. Beautiful Soup won’t choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense
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Palabre, as already said is an open source (and free as in free beer) XML Socket Python Server.
It is meant to be used in replacement (for example) of the Macromedia Flash Communication Server. (which is let’s admit it really expensive)
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Scrape ‘N’ Feed is a simple Python wrapper around the PyRSS2Gen module. It implements almost all of the code you need to create RSS feeds out of web pages. All you have to write is the code that actually does the screen-scraping (and Beautiful Soup makes
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Soaplib is an easy to use python library written at Optio Software, Inc. for writing and calling soap web services. Webservices written with soaplib are simple, lightweight, work well with other SOAP implementations, and can be deployed as WSGI applicatio
Very nice semantic web ide (unfortunately > 1000 $):
OpenSource GIS stuff:
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TileCache is an implementation of a WMS-C (about) compliant server made available under the BSD license by MetaCarta. TileCache provides a Python-based WMS/TMS server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends. In the simplest use case, Til
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The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation’s goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects. This website serves as
Physical computing (going back to the ol days ;-):
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Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, itself built on Processing. Arduino can be used