seanh

Basic Orientation to CKAN (for developers)

Some of the most important layers in the CKAN code architecture, going from lowest-level up to highest-level:

##Database

CKAN uses SQLAlchemy (http://www.sqlalchemy.org/) to handle communication between CKAN source code and the PostgreSQL database (http://www.postgresql.org/).

Model

sloria

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

• "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
• "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

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Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

pmarkun

TEDx Anhangabau - Política Hacker

SLIDE 1 - Hackday na CCD

• Quem sou? Pedro Markun, hacker e ativista pela transparência e outra forma de fazer politica em tempo integral.
• E estou aqui para contar a história de um Laboratório, um Laboratório Hacker que a gente esta montando dentro do Congresso Nacional. No coração do poder legislativo.
• A minha história com transparência e dados abertos vai começar mais ou menos em Outubro de 2009. Quando 120 pessoas se reuniram na extinta Casa de Cultura Digital - ali na Barra Funda - para realizar o primeiro Transparência Hackday.
• Hoje, você chuta uma árvore e caem 10 hackathons. Estamos planejando inclusive uma segunda edição aqui pra Câmara. Mas naquela época não era bem assim... e eu e a Daniela, minha sócia, tivemos que ouvir do Claudio Abramo - presidente da Transparência Brasil - que isso nunca ia dar certo e que o governo nunca ia abrir os dados.
• Mas enfim, o evento rolou e dele surgiu uma comunidade - a Transparência Hacker - que cresceu e hoje te

wkjagt

#How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

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Last year, when visiting my family back home in Holland, I also stopped by my grand-parents. My grand-father, now 93 years old, had always been a very active man. However, during the presceding couple of months, he'd gone almost completely blind and now spent his days sitting in a chair. Trying to think of something for him to do, I suggested he try out audio books. After finally convincing him -- he said audio books were for sad old people -- that listening to a well performed recording is actually a wonderful experience, I realized the problem of this idea.

####The problem with audio devices and the newly blind. After my first impulse to jump up and go buy him an

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