Another cron job added

My hourly twitter search updates are threaded, and sometimes hang. For now I check this manually, until I have some time and inclination to look into this and solve the riddle of this. I don’t check every day – so I’ve added a daily cron job now that sends me a status email of the . . . → Read More: Another cron job added

Twitalytics Update, December 2010 (1)

Some more updates and changes for twitalytics :

In general:

I did some more styling changes in the css, hopefully you’ll find them pleasing or at least ok.

Keyword Page:

The “Today” button on the keyword page did not work correctly – this is now fixed. Instead of the “All” button, which lost it . . . → Read More: Twitalytics Update, December 2010 (1)

Twitter Status Id’s to change to string representation

I almost missed this post on the new status id generator for twitter:

Timeline ———– by 22nd October 2010 (Friday): String versions of ID numbers will start appearing in the API responses 4th November 2010 (Thursday) : Snowflake will be turned on but at ~41bit length 26th November 2010 (Friday) : Status IDs will break . . . → Read More: Twitter Status Id’s to change to string representation

Changing from feedparser.py to urllib & simplejson

With all the outages of Twitter recently, my back end system that retrieves the information from twitter was going haywire. Things kept going wrong, tweets were not retrieved, the works.

I initially coded this backend using feedparser, thinking that this code could be user later on to get rss feeds from other sites. It was . . . → Read More: Changing from feedparser.py to urllib & simplejson

Sparklines are cool !

Recently I was looking to add some graphics to my python CherryPy application, and I discovered sparklines.

Sparklines are small graphical displays of numerical data that help you to get a timeline view. Their size makes it easy to add them in phrases or to compare different graphs quickly. Below are some examples:

This . . . → Read More: Sparklines are cool !

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