Posts tagged “Web Notes”
2010 Jun 15
Changed rules for Picasa tag searches
Well, drat. Several images disappeared from the Our Fresh World green-building web site because Google changed their Picasa API recently — and I must not be subscribed to the proper mailing list or blog to have been warned ahead of time. Where are incompatible Google API tweaks announced? The site…
2009 Aug 1
Installing "lxml" for Python under your WebFaction account
Well, drat. Thanks to more than an hour of work today, I have a pretty list of a few dozen commands that make it easy for a WebFaction account holder to install the powerful lxml Python package for parsing HTML and XML under their hosting account. You can read Ian…
2009 Jan 1
New Year's meme: What are the oldest files in your home directory?
Celebrate the new year with a blog post discussing the oldest files that are still sitting somewhere beneath your home directory! The procedure is simple: Run the following script in your home directory. (You might want to use less to read the output.) Ignore files whose date does not reflect…
2008 Nov 5
Rise and Fall of the Two Waldos
I am experiencing my Flickr photostream in an entirely new way thanks to the tools they introduced this year for monitoring the traffic received by individual photographs. The old, static parts of my photostream suddenly look dynamic: I can see the rate at which each old photo is continuing to…
2008 Oct 25
The idea of a term paper
Displaying their usual talent for excerpt, the folks at Arts & Letters Daily directed my attention to a recent article in The Smart Set with this intriguing summary of its contents: Term paper mill. Need $100 by Friday to keep the lights on? No sweat, if you’re a writer. Plenty…
2008 Jun 14
PyEphem 3.7.2.4, now on Launchpad!
I have decided to give my PyEphem astronomy library for Python a public source code repository, an open forum for user questions, and a bug tracker where my users can see the progress of their bug reports out in the open rather than having them scattered across our email inboxes.…
2008 Jun 13
Wordle
What fun! An application has been placed on the Web named Wordle which, given some paragraphs of text as input, produces very striking images by drawing the most important words from your document so that they are largest. The basic idea is a long-standing one on the Web, as exemplified…
2007 Nov 23
A database symbol for GraphViz
Download the source for my GraphViz database symbol featured in this article: DatabaseShape.ps I have started using the GraphViz application, which accepts a list of nodes and arrows, and figures out how to attractively arrange them in a diagram. For example, you can very nearly produce this output: by supplying…
