The most-watched Python repositories on Github

By Vasudev Ram

Saw this via this Python Reddit thread.

Github keeps track of the most-watched repositories by language.

Here are the most-watched Python repositories on Github

And similarly, here are the most-watched Ruby repositories on Github.

Interesting to see the projects on those lists. Some are obviously well-known, like Django and requests for Python, Rails for Ruby, and so on. But there are also some that many people may not have heard of.

I've blogged about some of those Python projects in the past, such as boto, glances, pattern, scrapy, youtube-dl, kivy, watchdog, topaz. You should be able to find most of those posts by doing Google searches of the form jugad2+kivy or jugad2+boto.

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Github Mobile for Android and iOS

GitHub Mobile

Seems to have many useful features.

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A story of Github, by Wired

Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More) | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Found it somewhat interesting since I recently started using Bitbucket, another hosted DVCS site.

Apply an appropriate level of bogofiltering for it being from Wired and for the gushing by fans,  though ;)

Also see Linus's comments in the article. Linus created Git, on which Github is based.

As a side note, check Github Gists, which are something like pastebins, and useful.

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A glimpse into the future of open web science

This article is about how science may be in the future, with wide collaboration and the use of web/Internet technologies:

A Vision of Web Science | Climate Code Foundation

Found it interesting.

Some of the points are speculative, others are either possible or already real.

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Appsembler, a SaaS enablement service for open source web apps

By Vasudev Ram

Appsembler is a SaaS enablement platform for open source web apps.

From the Appsembler site: "We help developers monetize their software, and make it painless for end users to try their software."

This is the Appsembler main page for developers.

Saw Appsembler via a chain of links. Only checked it out a little so far, but live chatted with one of the founders, Nate Aune. He said it runs on Stackato, the PaaS from ActiveState.

Multiple programming languages and web frameworks are supported, according to Nate, but for Python, only Django is, currently. Also, it works better if you have a Github account for your SaaS app.

Here is a blog post by Nate about Django deployment using PaaS.

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GitHub gists, pastebins with a Git twist

By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | @vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com

Saw this recently - seems like a nice idea:

GitHub gists (quoting from the site), are:

"a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All gists are git repositories, so they are automatically versioned, forkable and usable as a git repository."

"Snippets", in the above, means, of course, code snippets, since GitHub is a code repository site.

The GitHub gist entry page (where you can create a gist) tries to detect the programming language used in the gist by the file name extension - you can paste the code into a text box, as in a pastebin, but you have to give the gist a file name, like foo.py or bar.c .

Links:

https://gist.github.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin

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