The Sudoku Solver on the site lets you contribute boards to a shared public library, and lets you choose... ... Read more
My first book club site was built using MySQL/PHP and the idea of hosting 1,000 clubs. This did not happen. My own club, even after 20 years, has only covered about 250 books ... not really a Big Data problem. I created an alternate "skinny" club site using just flat files for data, and maintain it, when we add a book/meeting, with Python and a shell script.
I noticed that the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) jobs page had only a simple, free text search capability. This is all the functionality it actually needs, but before I had figured that out, I created this add-on site that uses Python and SQLite to provide filters by Town and Position.
The Sudoku Solver on the site lets you contribute boards to a shared public library, and lets you choose... ... Read more
A favorite elementary school word puzzle is the 'how many other words can you make from the letters of this... ... Read more
In the "Jumble" puzzles (copyrighted by David L. Hoyt) the challenge is to unscramble a set of words. The individual... ... Read more
"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
- Vincent van Gogh
A Wall of Quotes:
The way to learn any scripting language, database tech, etc., is to find a simple project and implement it. This page is a set of simple projects that I used for just that purpose.