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Debugging email sending in your Web application is always tricky as you need a working SMTP and you also need to watch out that you don’t accidently spam real users (if you’re working on a local copy of real database). There is a neat one liner that acts as a “sink smtpd” server, meaning that […]
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I’m working on some visualizations and I want to achieve the look of Last.fm visualization lastgraph3: The great thing about this is that Andew Godwin, author of the site open sourced the underlying library – Graphication. Since I’m an OS X user, I decided to make the whole thing work on my system – Leopard […]
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Saturdays are the days for hacking (after having a great run earlier of course). This time I’ve been preparing a network data set for a friend. The idea was to take a look at who follows who on Koornk. Tools used: their API, Python scripts and Pajek to draw the results. This is what I’ve got […]
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While building something nice on Koornk (Slovenian Twitter like service), I stopped for a few months to learn how to do Authenticated POST requests using Python. I found urllib2 way too complicated, but soon I stumbled across great Yahoo Developer page – Make Yahoo! Web Service REST calls with Python that also lists alternative approach […]
Most of my readers are by now probably already aware of Wordle, Java applet, that allows neat visualization tags. Given that Zemanta released early alpha API preview recently, I was looking for a fun project to showcase some of it. So for this experiment I’m going to try to visualize some of the popular classic […]
Source: FlickrWhen using python-boto package to list keys in your S3 bucket, you might hit a limit of 1000 keys when using function call bucket.get_all_keys(). In order to get full list of keys just do something along the lines of keylist = [k for k in self.bucket] since as it turns out, bucket has an […]