Category Archives: python

#tweetcoding AS3 code in 140 chars or less 2

@gskinner started off a little contest where the object is to create an interesting SWF in 140 characters or less of AS3 code.  
I went ahead and wrote a server side script that scans the tweets submitted to this contest and compiles the entries then makes them available here: http://tweetcoding.machine501.com/
There are already some interesting pieces submitted [...]

Facebook | Answers – A Django App 0

Over the holiday break I took 2 days to try my hand at writing a moderately complex, non-annoying, Facebook app. Facebook Answers is the result of this work. It’s a place where you can ask a question and let the community answer. People can vote other people’s up or down, [...]

Plasmid Map Drawing Code – Part 1 1

A while back I started working on a project with a friend at UCLA’s MBI which we called the Schneider Suite. The first bit of code I wrote for this was a circular plasmid drawing library for use with python Tkinter. I stopped working on the suite altogether while I started my business [...]

Code chat for Pythonistas 0

I’ve put a little chat widget for chatting about python on my blog sidebar.
I use IRC to chat with other programmers and I’m used to showing my code using a pastebin.  But when Tom and I started writing this flash chat widget I decided to come up with something that would let me paste code [...]

Python Libs for S3 – Thanks Hanzo Archives! 0

I’d been working with the java libs and s3curl for modifying my s3 buckets and found them a pain. I wanted a python s3 library that I could plug into all of the other python scripts that we’re using for backend glue. Hanzo-s3-tools to the rescue.