Matt Warren

Author: Matt

  • Programmer vs Entreprenur

    I went to school to learn how to program.  In fact I went to one of the best Computer Science schools in Canada – University of Waterloo.  While there I took all of the hardest courses I could fit into my schedule including 2 of the “big three” – Graphics and Real-time Operating Systems –…

  • Schrödinger’s Programmer

    Schrödinger’s Programmer is a thought experiment. A real-life paradox which comes as a result of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The thought experiment presents a programmer that may or may not have written software. You have a closed office. In this office is a computer (with internet access) and a software programmer. She is…

  • Entrepreneurship Skills and Phases

    Within the last week I have nailed down the final set of features and bug fixes for Automatic Blog Machine. It’s now in a stage where the development is finished and I can start focusing on the sales and marketing push and finally release it out to people like you who may be interested in…

  • Ben Franklin’s Daily Schedule

    Came across this today. The thing that struck me is Ben and I go to sleep at the same time, but he got up 2 hours earlier in the morning than I do. Two hour lunch breaks — good idea. Time to plan and time to reflect each day. I’m going to try to work…

  • Mark V Shaney

    Mark V Shaney was a fake Usenet user whose posting were automatically generated using markov chains.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney I read about this a few weeks ago and thought that it would be interesting to try and create a Mark V Shaney twitter account that would be trained using the twitter fire hose.  The result was the twitter…

  • Python Imap Gmail

    Connecting to a Google Gmail account is easy with Python using the built in imaplib library. It’s possible to download, read, mark and delete messages in your gmail account by scripting it. Here’s a very simple script that prints out the latest email received: #!/usr/bin/env python import imaplib M=imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(‘imap.gmail.com’, 993) M.login(‘myemailaddress@gmail.com’,’password’) status, count = M.select(‘Inbox’)…

  • Bash Keyboard Shortcuts

    Bash is an incredibly powerful shell, and being proficient with it can make a massive difference in your productivity. Small tips and tricks can sometimes make a big difference in how you work. The shortcuts I’ve listed below deal mostly with what is actually readline functionality and so they may work in many other command…

  • Python Web Crawler Script

    Here’s a simple web crawling script that will go from one url and find all the pages it links to up to a pre-defined depth. Web crawling is of course the lowest level tool used by Google to create its multi-billion dollar business. You may not be able to compete with Google’s search technology but…

  • Amazon Product Advertising API From Python

    Amazon has a very comprehensive associate program that allows you to promote just about anything imaginable for any niche and earn commission for anything you refer. The size of the catalog is what makes Amazon such a great program. People make some good money promoting Amazon products. There is a great Python library out there…

  • Get Your ClickBank Transactions Into Sqlite With Python

    Clickbank is an amazing service that allows anyone to easily to either as a publisher create and sell information products or as an advertiser sell other peoples products for a commission. Clickbank handles the credit card transactions, and refunds while affiliates can earn as much as 90% of the price of the products as commission.…