Category Archives: Project

Mocker 1.0 for Python released!

Posted on 2010-06-20 by Gustavo Niemeyer

After a few years in development, version 1.0 of Mocker is now available! Check out the changes since 0.10.1, the supported features, or go straight to the download page.

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Integrating IRC with LDAP and two-way SMSing

Posted on 2010-06-19 by Gustavo Niemeyer

A bit of history I don’t know exactly why, but I’ve always enjoyed IRC bots. Perhaps it’s the fact that it emulates a person in an easy-to-program way, or maybe it’s about having a flexible and shared “command line” tool, … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Erlang, Mobile, Project, Python | 1 Comment

Released editmoin 1.15

Posted on 2010-06-19 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Version 1.15 of editmoin is now available. The following changes were made: Moin used to work with numerical IDs for identification, and editmoin was still based on this model. This release adds support for direct authentication as available in current … Continue reading →

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Xpresser – Python library for GUI automation with image matching

Posted on 2010-05-18 by Gustavo Niemeyer

In a hurry? Go check it out! The context A while ago I found out about Sikuli, a very interesting project which allows people to script actions in GUIs based on screenshot excerpts. The idea is that you basically take … Continue reading →

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The last 4 years (and the next N?)

Posted on 2009-11-25 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Some interesting changes have been happening in my professional life, so I wanted to share it here to update friends and also for me to keep track of things over time (at some point I will be older and will … Continue reading →

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Geocaching on the Easter Island

Posted on 2009-10-13 by Gustavo Niemeyer

This post is not about what you think it is, unfortunately. I actually do hope to go to the Easter Island at some point, but this post is about a short story which involves geohash.org, Groundspeak (from geocaching.com), and very … Continue reading →

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Wiki + Spreadsheet

Posted on 2008-08-12 by Gustavo Niemeyer

The underlying concept is very simple: spreadsheets are a way to organize text, numbers and formulas into what might be seen as a natively numeric environment: a matrix. So what would happen if we loosed some of the bolts of … Continue reading →

Posted in Math, Project, Python | 5 Comments

Google using Geohash

Posted on 2008-05-20 by Gustavo Niemeyer

According to Dave Troy, Google seems to be using the Geohash algorithm: Google is employing the GeoHash algorithm I’ve been pushing to do spatial searching using BigTable. Since database schemes like BigTable don’t support traditional GIS extensions/spatial indexes, GeoHash allows … Continue reading →

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dateutil 1.4 is out

Posted on 2008-03-03 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Friday I’ve released version 1.4 of dateutil. There are some interesting fixes there, so please upgrade if you have the chance.

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Enhancements on geohash.org

Posted on 2008-03-01 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Some improvements to geohash.org were made. Some of them were motivated by a conversation with Rodrigo Stulzer. Support for geocoding addresses (city names, whatever). E.g. http://geohash.org/?q=21 Millbank, London Support for moving the Geohash marker in the embedded map, so that modifying the … Continue reading →

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