When You Have a Hammer…

July 14, 2005 – 6:38 am

…it makes sense to go looking for nails. When you have a new way to organize information that works well in one context, it makes sense to see how well it will solve problems in others. This is a working sketch (in Perl) of how we might use del.icio.us-style tags to organize a filesystem. Clever.

  1. 2 Responses to “When You Have a Hammer…”

  2. Neat, a while back I saw a post[1] about something similar done in Python with a package called FUSE[2]

    [1] bryanmills.net:8086/archives/2005/05/meta-filesystem
    [2] fuse.sourceforge.net
    (Apparently, I can’t submit a comment containing the string ‘htt’ + ‘p:’)

    By Jon on Jul 14, 2005

  3. When life gives you hammers…
    …….make hammer-aid.

    By Michelle Levesque on Jul 15, 2005

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