June 2009
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The Python Twitter API, Timezones and PYTZ
In coding the open source Django Twitter Tribes app, I ran into what’s a pretty common problem for a lot of developers. Alex Z, the designer of Bazaarvoice’s twitter page had created a wonderful skin for my tribes application. However, one of the things he wanted to do was to list the Twitter status updates’ times using the nice, human readable format: ‘n hrs, m mins, d...
January 2009
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Date Checking Python
So Python’s datetime library makes it pretty easy to check dates and it’s got an awesome timedelta class to make date math super simple. We’ve got a client that we’re building out a social networking site for (in Django of course) and today I was working on a requirement for them that certain parts of the profile could only be publicly displayed if the user was over 18.
I...
December 2008
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Something quick and useful with Django and the...
Last night a friend contacted me about wanting to put together a quick stats application for Twitter. I had never messed with the Twitter API before and didn’t know what was possible so I poked around and wrote up a simple application in a couple of hours.
The application I chose to write performs a simple task that’s actually surprisingly hard to do with Twitter’s interface:...
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