New open source projects

20Jul10

I’ve been working on some stuff lately, and have found the need to dig deep and write some code of my own. They’re really small now, but all the same, I hope it’ll be useful to someone. Both DustJacket and isbndbpy below are written in Python. DustJacket A Python wrapper library for handling ebooks (only […]

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Tags: "python", ebooks, epub, github, isbn, isbndb, opensource

simplejson for Python on Mac OS X

04Apr10

Ran into an interesting problem with Python on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard). Part and parcel of writing web application is dealing with information transfer between the server and the client, and the most common format for this is JSON. JSON is exceedingly common across the web, so imagine my surprise when I found that […]

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Tags: "easy_install", "json", "mac os x", "python", "simplejson", "snow leopard"