Python bindings for your taskwarrior database

This is a python API for the taskwarrior command line tool.

It contains two implementations: taskw.TaskWarriorShellout and taskw.TaskWarriorDirect. The first implementation is the supported one recommended by the upstream taskwarrior core project. It uses the task export and task import commands to manipulate the task database. The second implementation opens the task db file itself and directly manipulates it. It exists for backwards compatibility, but should only be used when necessary.

The Radicale Project is a complete CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server solution.

Calendars and address books are available for both local and remote access, possibly limited through authentication policies. They can be viewed and edited by calendar and contact clients on mobile phones or computers.

Radicale aims to be a light solution, easy to use, easy to install, easy to configure. As a consequence, it requires few software dependencies and is pre-configured to work out-of-the-box.

Radicale runs on most of the UNIX-like platforms (Linux, *BSD, MacOS X) and Windows. It is free and open-source software, written in Python, released under GPL version 3.

Vortrag an der Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel, am 22.06.2015:
Warum schweigen die Lämmer? Demokratie, Psychologie und Empörungsmanagement.
Prof. Dr. Rainer Mausfeld

Hinter diesem Titel verbirgt sich der bemerkenswerte Vortrag des Kieler Psychologieprofessors Dr. Rainer Mausfeld. Es lohnt sich, diesen Vortrag anzuhören/anzuschauen, und es empfiehlt sich, Freunde, Nachbarn und Familie zur Diskussion einzuladen. Mausfeld nimmt uns, soweit noch vorhanden, die letzten Illusionen zum Zustand der Demokratie, zum Missbrauch unserer Sympathie für Demokratie und zur Gewalttätigkeit unserer westlichen „Werte“gemeinschaft. Desillusionierung schadet nicht. Außerdem: Der Vortrag ist aktuell – wegen Griechenland, wegen der spürbaren Bereitschaft zu militärischen Auseinandersetzungen, wegen der alltäglichen Gewalt. Wir bieten Ihnen nicht nur die Links zum Vortrag, auf die anschließende Diskussion und auf ein Interview mit Professor Mausfeld bei Phoenix – zum leichteren und nachhaltigen Umgang mit dem Vortrag bieten wir hier [PDF – 352 KB] auch noch eine Zusammenfassung und Handreichung, die die NachDenkSeiten-Leserin S.H. dankenswerter Weise zusammengestellt hat

Apache ZooKeeper is the coolest technology I recently came across. I found it when I was doing a research about Solr Cloud features. I got very impressed by Solr’s distributed computing. You literately have to fire a new instance and it will automatically find its place in “the cloud”. It will assign itself to a particular shards and it will make a decision to become a leader or a replica. Later you can query any of the available servers and it will find you all required data even if it’s not on that server. If some of the servers fail the service will continue to work. Very dynamic, very clever, very cool.

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This site lets you create a muttrc configuration file for the Mutt email program. You specify your preferences in the boxes on the next few pages, and you get a muttrc you can use.

None of the data you enter is stored permanently, but as the Internet is not secure, you should not enter any sensitive information such as passwords. Enter a placeholder instead (such as "password goes here" and replace it in the file you download.

The idea is based on netliberte's sadly-defunct muttrc builder.

Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log.
Fast
A single Kafka broker can handle hundreds of megabytes of reads and writes per second from thousands of clients.
Scalable
Kafka is designed to allow a single cluster to serve as the central data backbone for a large organization. It can be elastically and transparently expanded without downtime. Data streams are partitioned and spread over a cluster of machines to allow data streams larger than the capability of any single machine and to allow clusters of co-ordinated consumers
Durable
Messages are persisted on disk and replicated within the cluster to prevent data loss. Each broker can handle terabytes of messages without performance impact.
Distributed by Design
Kafka has a modern cluster-centric design that offers strong durability and fault-tolerance guarantees.
Apache Feather