Buzz - Python

• CURATEcamp iPres 2012

  Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto.

• Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal

  Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform.

• Why UK Further and Higher Education Needs Local Software Developers

  Mahendra Mahey and Paul Walk discuss the work of the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) Project which focuses on building capacity for software developers in UK Further and Higher Education to support innovation in the sector.

• How to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Project

  Sarah Callaghan, Sam Pepler, Fiona Hewer, Paul Hardaker and Alan Gadian describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences.

• dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Days

  Julian Cheal reports on the 5-day JISC's Developer Happiness Days event held at Birckbeck College, London over 16 - 21 February 2009.

• Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups

  Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services.

• A DRY CRIG Event for the IE Demonstrator

  Paul Walk reports on an 'unconference' for developers working in and around the JISC Information Environment and institutional systems, hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath in June 2008.

• Book Review: Programming Collective Intelligence

  Pete Cliff tries to remember A-level mathematics as he dives into the fascinating world of machine learning and statistics and how to apply these techniques to Web-accessible datasets.

• OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web

  Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning.

• Book Review: Google Hacks

  Phil Bradley looks at a work offering programming 'know-how' to create resources that will do things with the search engine that might otherwise prove difficult or impossible.

• Book Review: Ambient Findability

  Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges.

• Making the Case for a Wiki

  Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome.

• The European Library: Integrated Access to the National Libraries of Europe

  Britta Woldering describes the findings of the recently completed EU Project The European Library, focusing on technical solutions and metadata development.

• Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

  Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.

• Building on BUILDER

  Ian Upton explores the achievements of this Windows NT server based project.

• Web Focus: Institutional Web Management Workshop - The Joined Up Web

  Brian Kelly reports on the "Institutional Web Management Workshop: The Joined-Up Web" event, held in Bath.

• ZOPE: Swiss Army Knife for the Web?

  Paul Browning looks at this multiple authoring environment.

• Unix: What Is mod_perl?

  Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server.

• Down Your Way: Cyberworld Croydon

  Lyndon Pugh took a trip to the cyberworld of Croydon, to see 'what was going down'.