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Tag Archives: python
The Funky Data Model (Again, Again!)
Just as I was thinking MongoDB was the bees knees. This pops up… pickled-object-database – Google Code … which despite being a clever fudge in which objects are picked (aren’t we all) into a SQLite database does have the advantage … Continue reading
The Holy Grail of the Funky Data Model
I’ve blogged about the “Funky Data Model” before… When I was working with some very clever Oracle database dudes I came up with what I thought was a great idea. The idea was that rather than having database tables for … Continue reading
Extending the Django Admin Interface
This blog post is just a collection of notes I took along the way that might help you if you’ve had a play with the Django Admin and now are wondering how to get a little more out of it. … Continue reading
Growling Tweets
It’s nice to see that John has taken my ropey old AppleScript code to display tweets with Growl and improved upon it here, Growling Tweets – John’s World Wide Wall Display, so that it doesn’t need to use Vienna (why … Continue reading
DjangoCon 2008: Reusable Apps
I watched a few of the DjangoCon videos. I still marvel at how wonderful it is to be able to dip into a conference without stumping up the air fare. Of course Cal was the funniest, but this one, despite … Continue reading
My Life Passing Before My Eyes…
This was a weird moment. With a few minutes to explore some python tools, but not enough time or energy to do real work (it IS Saturday!) I wondered how quickly I could write a script (fired off by cron) … Continue reading
Semantic Hacker in Python (Code)
Following on from my rant on data…. here’s a quick example I made of using the Semantic Hacker API in Python. You can pass in a chunk of text or a URL and get back a list of categories that … Continue reading