PUBLIC MARKS with search days

When you create a public group everything will go well for a couple days, at most. Without fail an onslaught of spam will start to come through your group - I've even seen it happen within the first day. It happens to every group and doesn't matter how well you advertise it (or try to hide it). After having watched Google Groups for as long as I have I can only assume that there exists no spam filtering whatsoever. Or, if there is any, it's the most grossly incompetent spam filter I've ever seen.

Le plus gros problème aussi, et que (au moins à une certaine époque), la liste de tous les inscrits avec leur adresses mails était publique... (et une boîte mail de perdue, une). Google, premier récepteur de SPAM, mais aussi premier fournisseur de chair à SPAM.

Project: smart.rockets

Date: Summer, 2006

Language: ActionScript 2

Key Concepts: Evolutionary computing, genetic algorithms, rocket science

Project: BC Budget Visualization Tool

Date: September, 2009

Language: Processing

Key Concepts: Data visualization, data organization, sticking it to the man

Project: tree.growth

Date: September, 2006

Language: Processing

Key Concepts: Lindenmayer Systems, recursion, biomimicry

Project: NYTimes 365/360

Date: February, 2009

Language: Processing

Key Concepts: Data Visualization, NYTimes Article Search API, HashMaps & ArrayLists

Project: GoodMorning!

Date: August, 2009

Language: Processing

Key Concepts: Spherical coordinates, latitude & longitude conversion, Twitter API, MetaCarta API

When it comes to releasing source code, I’ve always been torn. I really believe in the philosophy of open source, but I’m intimidated by putting my code out there for everyone to see. Underneath it all, I’m probably scared of being exposed as some kind of a charlatan (”You call that programming?”). So, to pre-empt that possibility, I’ll start by saying this: I’m not a great programmer. My code is clean and fairly well-structured, but don’t expect to find any particularly advanced code wizardry or complicated mathematics. I do, however, think that the projects that I’ll be sharing over the week contain some good ideas, and a lot of helpful techniques. Hopefully you’ll find one or all of them useful.

Katie West is from Toronto, Canada. She really loves her cats, Star Trek, dancing, monochromatic colour schemes, grocery shopping, sunny days, road trips, watching movies, and the smell of old books.

Three days of hacking later, I managed to get it working. 200 or so lines of Python code replaced approximately 12,000 lines of PHP. My weave server is meant for a single user