Older Projects
Mid-ish 2010s Projects
(for varying values of ‘recent’)
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flat finder: this cool wee thing used python to check S1homes/GSPC/Gumtree listings and produced a filtered list of flats to rent in an area that was within a particular walking time of a place using Google Maps/navigation API. I’m quite please with this one!
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an app for leaving feedback on teaching/learning opportunities; bidirectional, so both tutor and tutee get feedback. Developed with Cordova.
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a couple of small plugins for the GIMP image editing program centered around my workflow
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an IRC bot (using
ii)- I quite liked this as it has markov and quoting capabilities! I’d quite like to port it to Matrix and/or Twitter…
Older Projects
These have all since been superceded, but I’ll leave them here for curiosity’s sake.
Mail Checker
<h3>description</h3>
<p><strong>Overview:</strong> <em>Creates a summary page of email subjects for multiple
accounts</em></p>
<p><strong>Note if you want the source code for this, please <a
href="http://blog.roberthallam.org/contact/">contact me</a> for it.</strong></p>
<p>The number of email addresses I maintain / check is thakfully decreasing, but I still find it
laborious to check all of them, especially the ones that tend to receive less important email.</p>
<p>I originally wrote a perl script around (IIRC) POP3lib, or similar. I retrieved mails and
searched for the subject using regular expressions. I still use regexes, and still pull the
entire email as it works (basically) for now, but my intention is
to rewrite to only retrieve headers. I don't
know if this functionality is present in the CPAN POP libraries, although it most likely is. I
now use a python
implementation, partly to help me familiarise myself with python which I now use more than perl
(<em>as of 2008 or so, still valid Q4 2009!</em>), and partly because I wanted to switch to IMAP over POP.</p>
<p>My file <strong>imap.py</strong> processes arguments to check things like: server name, SSL /
no SSL, username and password, number of messages to print subjects for, and debug options. I forget if there are others. It uses the
<strong>imaplib</strong> IMAP4 python library.</p>
<p>It also prints dashes to underline headings. I mention this only because I think it's
important to pay attention to the little touches that enhance readbility, for anyone that is reading for ideas.</p>
etc etc