eurobrussels.com python screenscraper
Much like unjobs.org, eurobrussels.com is an excellent resource for vacancies in Europe with multilateral organizations and all form of interesting private enterprises.
Unfortunately, the site is still RSS-disabled and the process of looking on the site for new jobs is temrinally inconvenient. So what's a python programmer to do?
Out comes BeautifulSoup and PyRSS2Gen. A quick examination of the source code reveals that the geeks there are good enough netizens to use (relatively) reasonable CSS classes. A little bit of time, and you've got a nice screenscraper for your RSS generator. read more »
Free Linux Driver Development Project: Promotional Materials
Way back in March it must have been, I had pinged Greg KH about the notion of building some simple and straightforward promotional materials for the Free Linux Driver Development Project. Many months later, the project is now getting rolling for serious and I've had a bit of time to draft a two-pager which can be fired off at OEMs as a way of generating initial interest and awareness. read more »
The Failure of Open Source Business Advocacy
The advancing stature of open source in the enterprise is unquestionable. Open source technology has a demonstrable foothold in numerous industries and roles, and it has indisputably acquired a portion of mindshare which is appreciating. Looking back to the beginnings of open source where even the terminology was radically different (free software), it can often be difficult to recognize enterprise open source as a direct consequence of the birth of the free software movement. Badgeware as an example was not on the map in the early free software ecosystem, and vital components of healthy open source technology are not on the agenda in many enterprise open source deployment scenarios today. read more »
UNJobs.org Screenscraper and RSS Generator
The UN Jobs site is useful as a compendium of what postings are being opened where, but as an information system it is nigh on useless. There is no way to track what you have seen and what you haven't seen, and no way to tell precisely what is new between now and the last time you visited (the new postings page notwithstanding).
I've written a small screenscraper which pulls down all the postings and converts them to an rss file. I don't know about other feed readers, but liferea can read from a local file. There's a ton of dependencies like BeautifulSoup and PyRSS2Gen, but anyone with a little motivation should be able to get this working. read more »
pycurl CurlMulti mini-HOWTO
In the course of writing a little python command line RSS engine, I naturally came to a point where I needed to download the RSS feeds to store them and work with them.
My options looked like this: read more »
Four Straightforward Keys to Start Marketing Your Open Source Startup
Open Source Startup Marketing: Initial Steps
As innovative open source startups gradually grow ambitious enough to start thinking about an enterprise-class client portfolio, marketing becomes more of a pressing priority. My observation is that marketing is overwhelmingly regarded by open source geeks (an accolade I aspire to myself despite my sub-standard code-fu) as either superfluous nonsense-ridden hand waving, as arcane dark arts taught only in the bowels of the netherworld, or somewhere in between. read more »
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