Tag Archives: Python

RSSmeme - Look out ReadBurner!

Look out ReadBurner; RSSmeme is coming for you!  I registered rssmeme.com yesterday and launched the site today.  It was a test for me to see how good/fast of a Django developer I am.  It isn’t 100% done yet; but most of the functionality is there.
Why another one of these sites?  Because it was fun to [...]

Beautiful Paginator with Django Custom Filters

Here is an example; scroll down to see the paginator.
Django’s generic views already have awesome support for pagination.  But they don’t give you a great way of providing a good paginator; that is up to you to create.
They give you an array (page_range) in your templates that you can loop over to display a nice [...]

Announcing Dear LazyWeb, a Twitter app!

I’m proud to announce my latest project: Dear LazyWeb.  When somebody asks a question to nobody in particular on the internet they are calling for help from the LazyWeb.  There used to be a website where you could post your questions but it has been shut down.
Building applications on top of Twitter is all the [...]

BeautifulSoup: Last.fm Artist Image

A coworker had been working with Last.fm and libnotify to send him a notification when a friend listens to a song so that he can decide if he’d be interested in listening to it. To grab the artist’s image he used a complex regular expression that was prone to error. I thought it [...]

Pop Secrets Updated

I wrote the original script for Pop Secrets over a year ago. Back then I was just getting into Python and was woefully ignorant. Using Universal Feed Parser I simply gobbled up all the content from a number of celebrity gossip blogs and spitted them out sorted by date onto a page. [...]