(And if that’s not a title to reel them in from Google, I don’t know what is.) Step 1) Install and download the last.fm proxy (requires Python) Step 2) Follow the two-step configuration in the README Step 3) Start the

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Whilst wedding and Norway posts are forthcoming, a small rant about installing extra libraries into Python on Windows. How hard can they make it? I mean, really? What I want to do: write a python app using the Twisted library. An hour later, and I’m yet to get to the coding part. Installation of

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From scratch: Python 2.3 (although I normally use ActiveState’s ActivePython I think) WxWidgets 2.6 Sam Ruby’s wx3pa

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James Bunton has completely rewritten the MSN transport for Jabber in Python using the Twisted framework which has built-in support for Jabber. This looks to not only clear up long-standing bugs and memory leaks with

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There’s now more than one way to convert your MSN Messenger contact list into FOAF. Phil McCarthy’s msn2foaf has been around for quite a while and is a Perl botlet which logs onto your MSN Messenger account and outputs your contact list as friend-of-a-friend RDF data, which was

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G says that there are never any posts on a Sunday, so here’s one just for him (late in the day as it may be). A few days ago I finally got around to knocking up what I’ve decided to give the short title of The LiveJournal Friends Feed Creator. My first foray into the murky world of Python it takes a LiveJournal nickname (say, Xurble), r...

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Almost a year old now, but the PyCon Introduction to the Semantic Web and RDF is still very good, and most usefully provides sample Python code. In the same vein, Building Metadata Applications with RDF very ably demonstrates how to handle RDF documents in Python and is an ex...

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Draw a graph in OpenOffice, run a python program and get ntriples out. Excellent stuff! And all because OO saves its files in XML!

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