Archive of month: November 2010

Packt’s new “Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook”

I’m rather excited to have received a review copy of Packt’s new NLP book “Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook“, it is based around Python’s Natural Language Processing toolkit. I’ve been using the O’Reilly book for over a year, I’m curious to see what’s different between the two. I’ll post a full review once […]

£5 App #23 – “Things we built this summer”

Last Tuesday we had our 23rd £5 App event, given that it is only our second event this year we chose to let people “show and tell” about the things they built this summer. We had 9 speakers, I bought the beer, John baked the cakes. Shardcore and the Englightenment Machine Shardcore‘s Enlightenment Machine was […]

Building a Social Microprinter

Over the last couple of months I’ve been building up a social microprinter (inspired by Tom Taylor‘s implementation and Matt Webb‘s original idea). Here’s the current version – Arduino+WiShield+CBM231+off-site server (powered partly by BenOSteen’s Python driver): There’s a second quick video and talk for the £5 App event I ran earlier in the week. The […]