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Archive for October, 2009

Fault-tolerant Python Twisted classes for getting all Twitter friends or followers

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Posted under python, twisted, twitter. | Comments Off on Fault-tolerant Python Twisted classes for getting all Twitter friends or followers

It's been forever since I blogged here. I just wrote a little Python to grab all of a user's friends or followers (or just their user ids). It uses Twisted, ... Read more..

Crowdsourcing Arabic-to-English translation in the Geneva airport

Saturday, October 10th, 2009 Posted under books, me. | Comments Off on Crowdsourcing Arabic-to-English translation in the Geneva airport

Today I met an extraordinary Iranian man in the Geneva airport. He's written a 1000 page book in Arabic about (at least in part) his experiences in Cyprus. He approached ... Read more..