Archive for the 'Python' Category

Automatically Posting Del.icio.us Links to Your WordPress Blog

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

I made a quick Python script to do this for me. Here’s an example of what it makes.
Sure there are plenty of scripts and plugins out there that do just this:
http://nozell.com/blog/2005/01/30/updated-yet-another-daily-delicious-hack/
http://heisel.org/projects
http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=499
http://autoblogger.sourceforge.net/
But I had to make my own because I wanted these exact features:

Only make a blog post after N new Del.icio.us links have accumulated.
Generate […]

Automatically Adding Birthdays to Google Calendar

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Have you ever missed 3 important birthdays in a period of 3 weeks? Well I just did and this experience inspired me to create a program to read birthdays out of my Gmail contact’s notes and add them into Google calendar 10 years going forward. I’ll never forget a birthday again!
Here’s how it […]

Google, You Dissapoint Me

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Here I am trying to make a nice Python project to make it easy for people to write programs for their Google Calendar and they tell me in no uncertain terms that I can’t use GoogleCalendar, GoogleCalendarAPI, Google as tags! So I guess they’re saying, sure you can write a program to use our […]

Grocist: a Barcode Driven Grocery List Web Application

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

I’m proud to introduce a little web application I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. I call it:

Grocist

It works like this:
You plug a barcode scanner into your computer (preferably one in the kitchen):

and simply scan the barcodes of any packages before you discard them.

(typing in items such as bananas also works for […]

Introducing TableGen - The HTML Table Generator

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

First the solution:
TableGen

Now the problem it solves:
I created a website with WordPress for a small business. My goal was for the non-technical managers of the business to be able to run the content side of the website themselves. Everything was working great until they decided that they wanted to put up some tables […]