Comments on: Automatically Create a Webpage of Articles for Astro-ph Discussion with PHP and Python. http://www.astrobetter.com/automatically-create-a-webpage-of-articles-for-astro-ph-discussion-with-php-and-python/ Tips and Tricks for Professional Astronomers Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ryan Hamilton http://www.astrobetter.com/automatically-create-a-webpage-of-articles-for-astro-ph-discussion-with-php-and-python/#comment-2534 Ryan Hamilton Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:50:39 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=1733#comment-2534 In case anyone else is using the code and is interested, I've rewritten/changed a sizable chunk of Ian's original code with some nice enhancements --- automatic archiving of previous submitted papers, improved scraping for arXiv, Nature, and ADS links, and a minimal commenting system. It should be ready to just unpack and go after changing a few little details, but if not please let me know. You can find the code at <a href="http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/rthamilt/astrocoffee/" rel="nofollow">http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/rthamilt/astrocoffee/</a> This was a fun way to force myself to learn python! In case anyone else is using the code and is interested, I’ve rewritten/changed a sizable chunk of Ian’s original code with some nice enhancements — automatic archiving of previous submitted papers, improved scraping for arXiv, Nature, and ADS links, and a minimal commenting system. It should be ready to just unpack and go after changing a few little details, but if not please let me know. You can find the code at

http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/rthamilt/astrocoffee/

This was a fun way to force myself to learn python!

]]> By: Ian J. Crossfield http://www.astrobetter.com/automatically-create-a-webpage-of-articles-for-astro-ph-discussion-with-php-and-python/#comment-1877 Ian J. Crossfield Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:51:01 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=1733#comment-1877 Adam -- We browse from the site to the papers at coffee, so all pertinent text and figures can be displayed. If you decide to use this package for your new CU site, I'd be glad to help you get it up and running. Either way, good luck! Iva -- We definitely had resistance in our department re. an internal-only coffee page, and had to negotiate with our IT staff to get a public site set up. We're promoting our site not so much as "yet another site" to check, but rather as a site for people to post what they want to discuss during coffee. Adam — We browse from the site to the papers at coffee, so all pertinent text and figures can be displayed. If you decide to use this package for your new CU site, I’d be glad to help you get it up and running. Either way, good luck!

Iva — We definitely had resistance in our department re. an internal-only coffee page, and had to negotiate with our IT staff to get a public site set up. We’re promoting our site not so much as “yet another site” to check, but rather as a site for people to post what they want to discuss during coffee.

]]> By: Ivan Zolotukhin http://www.astrobetter.com/automatically-create-a-webpage-of-articles-for-astro-ph-discussion-with-php-and-python/#comment-1874 Ivan Zolotukhin Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:03:55 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=1733#comment-1874 We in Sternberg Astronomical Institute in Moscow do that using private Google Group. Those who wish to make a small report or discuss some recent article simply add it along with few notes (think a key points) to the dedicated group web-page. We "make a coffee" once a week in a room with a projector though. We in Sternberg Astronomical Institute in Moscow do that using private Google Group. Those who wish to make a small report or discuss some recent article simply add it along with few notes (think a key points) to the dedicated group web-page. We “make a coffee” once a week in a room with a projector though.

]]> By: Tim Arnold http://www.astrobetter.com/automatically-create-a-webpage-of-articles-for-astro-ph-discussion-with-php-and-python/#comment-1870 Tim Arnold Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:17:05 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=1733#comment-1870 At Arizona, some young idealistic graduate students are trying to revitalize our lackluster coffee. In hopes to facilitate this, I created: http://alrischa.as.arizona.edu/~tjarnold/Coffee.php All articles (except updated or cross-listed) are displayed, and users can "vote" in a crude Digg-style. The hope is that interesting articles will percolate to the top, and suppressed ones will fall to the bottom. Its utility and popularity have yet to be determined. At Arizona, some young idealistic graduate students are trying to revitalize our lackluster coffee. In hopes to facilitate this, I created:

http://alrischa.as.arizona.edu/~tjarnold/Coffee.php

All articles (except updated or cross-listed) are displayed, and users can “vote” in a crude Digg-style. The hope is that interesting articles will percolate to the top, and suppressed ones will fall to the bottom.

Its utility and popularity have yet to be determined.

]]> By: Iva Momcheva http://www.astrobetter.com/automatically-create-a-webpage-of-articles-for-astro-ph-discussion-with-php-and-python/#comment-1867 Iva Momcheva Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:14:22 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=1733#comment-1867 I had made a PHP page for the Arizona Astro-coffee a few years back but it never got used: the postings were few because people would usually check astro-ph half an hour before coffee and pick papers on the spot, participants thought it was cumbersome to check yet another site and also the form was only accessible from within the department (PHP security issues). I'd be interested to hear ideas on how to make the web-page format popular with the astro-coffee participants. I had made a PHP page for the Arizona Astro-coffee a few years back but it never got used: the postings were few because people would usually check astro-ph half an hour before coffee and pick papers on the spot, participants thought it was cumbersome to check yet another site and also the form was only accessible from within the department (PHP security issues). I’d be interested to hear ideas on how to make the web-page format popular with the astro-coffee participants.

]]> By: Adam Ginsburg http://www.astrobetter.com/automatically-create-a-webpage-of-articles-for-astro-ph-discussion-with-php-and-python/#comment-1863 Adam Ginsburg Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:34:05 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=1733#comment-1863 This is a great tip! This is exactly the sort of site we'd been planning on building here at CU (refurbishing our reading room at the moment). One feature I'd like, and I think can implement but haven't yet, is including a figure or figure link alongside the astro-ph article. If the coffee is held in a room with a projector or TV, it's nice to be able to display the key point from the article for discussion. This is a great tip! This is exactly the sort of site we’d been planning on building here at CU (refurbishing our reading room at the moment).

One feature I’d like, and I think can implement but haven’t yet, is including a figure or figure link alongside the astro-ph article. If the coffee is held in a room with a projector or TV, it’s nice to be able to display the key point from the article for discussion.

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