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Probably ripped off from somewhere on drupal.org...

deliciouscopy is a utility to repost Delicious bookmarks taken from a user's inbox. It works by only allowing bookmarks from other people in that user's network.

djabberdjaw is an experimental Jabber bot, written in Python, using Django for its administrative interface.

Note: This patch is now deprecated as a new version of the plugin has been released.

Because of changes in the database schema for WordPress 2.3, the Auto Delete Posts plugin does not work. I've patched it to work, but note that this patch makes the plugin only work with WordPress 2.3.

A coworker at MFPOW wanted me to generate a list of records matching certain diverse criteria from our Horizon database. I wrote the following SQL query to get the data out.

SELECT DISTINCT item.bib#
FROM item, bib WHERE bib.bib# = item.item#
AND item.collection NOT IN ('oh', 'icos', 'mi')
AND item.location = 'icos'
AND (bib.text LIKE '%audio%' OR bib.text LIKE '%video%'
OR bib.text LIKE '%cassette%' OR bib.text LIKE '%tape%'
OR bib.text LIKE '%recording%' OR bib.text LIKE '%film%')

Snippet is a programming term for a small region of re-usable source code or text. Ordinarily, these are formally-defined operative units to incorporate into larger programming modules. Snippets are often used to clarify the meaning of an otherwise "cluttered" function, or to minimize the use of repeated code that is common to other functions.

pymarc is a Python module for working with bibliographic, authority, etc. data in MARC format. The module's current lead developers are Ed Summers and Gabriel Farrell. Much of my work has involved working with the MARC-8 to Unicode transformation.

zgw is an experimental, lightweight Python-based HTTP gateway for interacting with Z39.50 servers.

worldcat is a Python module for interacting with OCLC's WorldCat APIs, including the WorldCat Search API and the xID APIs (xISBN, xISSN, and xOCLCNUM).

Helios (formerly Fac-Back-OPAC) is faceted, backup OPAC, using Django for the interface and Solr for the indexing. It is originially based on Casey Durfee's "Open Source Endeca in 250 Lines or Less," as presented at Code4lib 2007. Gabriel Farrell of Drexel University is currently the lead developer.

mail2rss.pl is a rewritten version of another script written by Nick Gerakines. His script was a good starting block, but Feedvalidator.org noted that the RSS it produced was invalid. I believed that the areas in which it failed are rather important and needed to be fixed so we could adhere to standards.