I can't believe it's not butter…margarine aims to be a zen (butter) web browsing experience. This tool adds features to an amalgamation of delicious, the social bookmarking application, and readability, the excellent web article renderer.

This project was created as a demo application for training purposes on cloud application design. It is not intended (but no one will be stopped) as a replacement for delicious and readability.

The following features are the large scale goals of margarine:

• Social Bookmarking
• Tagged Bookmarks
• Re-rendering of Bookmarks
• URL Shortening of Bookmarks
• Margin Notations on Bookmarks

Not all of these scope goals will be available in what will be marked a first release.

Margarine has several coordinating applications that get installed and need to be running in order to provide all of the intended functionality:

blend

The API daemon that provides the web service with the application logic and connects the frontend to the backend processors.

tinge

The frontend for margarine that provides the web browseable interface to the application.

spread

The backend daemon process that does non-interactive processing.

The tinge and blend processes can be deployed as a WSGI service if desired (it is written with flask) but also has a built in web service that can be used for small or development deployments.

The spread daemon is designed to work with start-stop-daemon to run in the background on a server. The spread daemon listens to a configurable message queue but can be configured to talk directly with the blend process.

The installer simply installs all the pieces with the current build system but future work shall include splitting these up into separate bundles. Due to the single installer, installation is very easy:

source

python setup.py install

pip

pip install margarine