Koha Reviews

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1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · over 6 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

Koha mentions (10)

• Collection tracking?

  Koha library system? https://koha-community.org/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Need help for setting up a library.

  Koha Library Software is a free & open source library system. Source: over 3 years ago

• FOSS lending system for $stuff

  We are lending stuff like books, laptops, beer benches (hallo freunde) and other stuff. Currently we are using librebooking, but obviously this is not the intended use case. Stuff like maximum lended objects is relevant to us. I saw koha which looks promising, but as it is intended for a library it has any features we dont need, such as acquistion. Any ideas? Source: over 3 years ago

• What would be the easiest way to catalog every prop my school drama department has?

  On the harder side of the world, there are entire open source products like Koha (https://koha-community.org) and Evergreen (https://evergreen-ils.org) that are capable of running large libraries, but require installation and systems maintenance. On the easier, something like Librarycat (https://www.librarycat.org) might work fine for your needs (and if you end up using it, lmk...the developer is a friend) or... Source: over 3 years ago

• help needed - library Software

  KOHA is open source software: https://koha-community.org/. Source: almost 4 years ago

DEV.to mentions (667)

• "My pending() Function Learned to Draft Against Nested Comments. My audit() Function Never Learned to Look for Them."

  Def _walk_comments(comment): """Yield this comment and every comment in its subtree, at any depth.""" yield comment for child in comment["children"]: yield from _walk_comments(child) Def audit(): ... for a in my_articles(): if not a["comments_count"]: continue for root_comment in api(f"/comments?a_id={a['id']}"): for c in... - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago

• 🍣 Sushi RS: SVG Sushi Components for Rust Frontends.

  So I came across the Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition on dev.to, and I thought: "Hey, what if I build a Rust crate that lets you render SVG sushi directly in your WASM frontend? How hard can it be?". - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago

• Woof Are You, Really? A Dog Personality Quiz Built in a Weekend

  This is a tiny, silly personality quiz built for the DEV.to Weekend Doggos challenge. Answer questions about your Saturday mornings, your feelings on doorbells, and your ideal compliment — and find out which dog breed you truly are today. (Not forever. Today. Check back tomorrow, you might be a different dog.). - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago

• Stop Arguing About Which Model Is Best. Build a Two-Tier Habit Instead.

  Verifiable only with effort. Anything touching the filesystem, package installs, CI config, database changes. Wrongness here is quiet and expensive. These get the strongest model I have and a sandboxed dry run before anything executes. I wrote a separate piece on dry-running assistant-written shell commands because this category keeps hurting people. - Source: dev.to / 6 days ago

• My Comment-Reply Pipeline Picks One Winner Per Thread. Two Commenters Broke That.

  Def _pending_leaves(comment): if not comment["children"]: if comment["user"]["username"] != ME: yield comment return for child in comment["children"]: yield from _pending_leaves(child) Def _pending_entries(comment, drafted_codes): for leaf in _pending_leaves(comment): if leaf["id_code"] in drafted_codes: continue yield { ... - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago