Samuel Clay samuelclay

Day job: Engineer at Tasty Labs, on a Python/Tornado stack
Favorite Python project: NewsBlur, my visual RSS feed reader written entirely in Python on the backend. Uses a 100% python distributed feed fetcher that makes use of celery, mongoengine, pymongo, and Django. Entirely on GitHub: http://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
Favorite Conference: Djangocon, where everybody knows they might the right decision to go Python.
Python Experience Level: Somewhere between expert and way out of my element.

	var pageCount = 3;
	var thumbnails = {
	1: "http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/8941/pages/fbi-agent-william-h-lawrence-testifies-before-congress-p1-thumbnail.gif",
	2: "http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/8941/pages/fbi-agent-william-h-lawrence-testifies-before-congress-p2-thumbnail.gif",
	3: "http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/8941/pages/fbi-agent-william-h-lawrence-testifies-before-congress-p3-thumbnail.gif"
	};

	var thumbnailsHTML = JST.thumbnails({
	pageCount : pageCount,
	thumbnails : thumbnails

	from PIL import Image
	import scipy
	import scipy.cluster
	from pprint import pprint

	image = Image.open('logo_newsblur_512.png')
	NUM_CLUSTERS = 15

	# Convert image into array of values for each point.
	ar = scipy.misc.fromimage(image)

	var someSet = Backbone.Collection.extend({
	model : someModel,
	constructor : function() {
	this.bind('change', _.bind(function() {
	onModelChange();
	}, this);
	}
	});

	someModelInstance.set('key', 'value'); // Triggers a `change` that `someSet` will see.

	>>> import feedfinder
	>>> feedfinder.feed('http://theverge.com')
	'http://theverge.com/rss/index.xml'

	>>> import feedparser
	>>> fp = feedparser.parse('http://theverge.com/rss/index.xml')
	>>> fp
	{'feed': {}, 'status': 200, 'bozo': 1, 'headers': {'status': '200 OK', 'content-length': '19383', 'via': '1.1 sbnation.com', 'content-encoding': 'deflate', 'vary': 'Accept-Encoding', 'x-runtime': '578', 'connection': 'Keep-Alive', 'etag': '"fd2f3a5b33a1a706fea1dec62ad25df3"', 'cache-control': 'private, max-age=0, must-revalidate, private, max-age=0, must-revalidate', 'date': 'Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:06:59 GMT', 'p3p': 'CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa PSAa PSDa CONi OUR IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT CNT STA"', 'content-type': 'application/xml; charset=utf-8'}, 'etag': u'"fd2f3a5b33a1a706fea1dec62ad25df3"', 'href': u'http://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml', 'entries': [], 'bozo_exception': error('Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check',)}
	>>> fp.entries
	[]

	(ns radix
	(:require [clojure.string :as string]))
	(use 'clojure.java.io)
	(use 'clojure.pprint)

	(println "Loading names... ")
	(time (def names
	(with-open
	[rdr (reader
	"/usr/share/dict/ProperNames")]

	var RadixTrie = function(words) {
	this.T = {};
	this.initialize(words);
	};

	RadixTrie.prototype = {

	initialize: function(words) {
	var self = this;
	words = words \|\| [];

	class ImageOps:
	"""Module that holds all image operations. Since there's no state,
	everything is a classmethod."""

	@classmethod
	def adjust_image_orientation(cls, image):
	"""Since the iPhone will store an image on its side but with EXIF
	data stating that it should be rotated, we need to find that
	EXIF data and correctly rotate the image before storage."""