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Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Ebot Tabi — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:21:33 -0000

this one, love it

Re: Ubuntu 10.04, EC2 micro instances, and ephemeral storage - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:50:12 -0000

I get email notifications in realtime :P. I haven't tried to use Tornado on
EC2 yet but at the most basic level it's as easy as opening up port 80 and
starting your process on that port.

In production what you really want is to put Tornado behind something like
nginx. Micro instances only have 1 core but other EC2 instances have
multiple cores that you can then capitalize on.

Re: Ubuntu 10.04, EC2 micro instances, and ephemeral storage - Benjamin Golub

Tim — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:44:13 -0000

Do you monitor your blog commenters in realtime? ;) Question for you, I'm interested in spinning up Tornado for a project. Do you have recommendations on setup for EC2?

Re: App Engine Query Cursors - Benjamin Golub

m1ck — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:48:17 -0000

Yep used it on one of my projects

http://movieapi.appspot.com/movie/tag/thrillers

It lets you page over a very large query very fast

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:09:22 -0000

You can use the Graph API anywhere you can make HTTPS requests; so yes you can use this on App Engine. Here is an example: http://github.com/facebook/...

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Fabrizio Giordano — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:54:07 -0000

Thanks Benjamin for this example.

Is this code working also on google app engine?

Thank you,
Fabrizio

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:00:42 -0000

Anyway; the real point of me sharing the code was to show that the Graph API is easy to use :)

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:56:30 -0000

Now that you've edited it sure it would work (for all but one album). But the original version would have returned nothing.

Anyway I think the real solution is allowing an input that takes a regular expression and applies that as a filter. But I don't particularly like regular expressions so I took the easy route :)

If I were to take your route I'd actually use filter() and a lambda function to move the dirty logic out of the way.

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Samuel Clay — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:08:50 -0000

This is for readability. The one-liner provided above, when using a .split()[0] would get all of the above except for the top entry. 3 lines of code would give the ability to group the keywords together, as well as be able to take keywords as input.

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:54:57 -0000

I could do something more complicated like split(), lower() each piece, and check if each piece is in the set ('poland', 'vienna'). But that's likely going to be more complicated and more loc.

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:51:57 -0000

That definitely wouldn't work:

In [1]: "Poland 5/15/2010".lower() in ['poland', 'vienna']
Out[1]: False

Unfortunately this is a shortcoming of Python.

Re: Recent travel photo albums (post created with help from the Graph API) - Benjamin Golub

Samuel Clay — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:38:36 -0000

You can make the album picker line (Poland or Vienna) easier to read by writing:

albums = [a for a in albums if a['name'].lower().split()[0] in ['poland', 'vienna']]

That way you get all the names without repeating yourself.

Re: How To: Dynamic Slide Down Disqus Comments

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Re: How To: Dynamic Slide Down Disqus Comments

dizel — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:29:54 -0000

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Re: How To: Dynamic Slide Down Disqus Comments

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Re: How To: Dynamic Slide Down Disqus Comments

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Re: Apple should allow Push Notifications to iPhone home screen bookmarks - Benjamin Golub

markslater — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:56:50 -0000

thats exactly why they SHOULD add it. If you are in the business of innovation - then you must innovate at all cost otherwise someone else will

Re: How To: Dynamic Slide Down Disqus Comments

Vps Hosting — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:27:24 -0000

Thanks for sharing the code.. I never knew about this before :)

Re: In which US Airways ruins a night of an otherwise awesome vacation - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin Golub — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:40:02 -0000

I wasn't Premier until Jan 1st this year. All last year I flew as a normal
customer. I wouldn't say they are a cut above the rest (JetBlue is my
favorite) but they fly where I need to go and haven't messed up yet.

Re: In which US Airways ruins a night of an otherwise awesome vacation - Benjamin Golub

Raoul Pop — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:33:11 -0000

They probably wouldn't treat a Premier member badly, but they definitely step all over their occasional customers, like me.