Google App Engine Patch Accepted

It’s a trivial fix, and it took them over a month to get around to it (hey, I’m sure they’re busy), but Google’s App Engine team finally accepted my patch. With that, the development datastore can be specified with a relative path, making app-engine related scripts easier to share with others who might not have [...]

How to Extract a Webpage’s Main Article Content

The Idea
I had an idea to make a personalized news feed reader. Basically, I’d register a bunch of feeds with the application, and rate a few stories as either “good” or “bad”. The application would then use my ratings and the article text to generate a statistical model, apply that model to future articles, and [...]

A Simple Pylons Wordnet Name Generator

To familiarize myself with the Pylons framework, I wrote a simple app that uses Wordnet to randomly generate very obscure names in the format “adjective noun”. Try it out below by clicking “Generate!”.