Python Apps 4 Free

Posted in Post-It Notes, Programming, Python at 11:38 am by Chris

I’ve had it posted on my Rate Card for quite a while now that I’m doing PRO BONO (Free) work in regards to Python-based applications. Well, I still am! :) At the present moment, I am very new to Python (very new), and as such, I’m doing free work for anyone out there who feels like asking.

Why does this make sense? Well, it gives me the opportunity to challenge myself, to see what I can do with this programming language, and it gives somebody an application for free! So, if you’re interested in taking advantage of this, I suggest you drop me a line. My contact information is readily available here, or you can e-mail me at email@chrisbraybrook.com

8 Comments »

  1. Bradley Peters said,

    February 20, 2006 at 6:55 pm

    I think you might want to be more specific with something like this. Just about anything can be written in Python, including very large and very significant applications. I’m suggesting that you might want to just focus on a certain area or select list of areas.

    In particular, Python is useful in what I would call traditional web scripting, but it’s also used to build entire web applications. My impression as a hobby programming is that the way you approach the former might be different from the latter.

    I would also suggest that you consider restating this offer to include the caveat that all such work be released under an open license of some kind. Either a really liberal like the new BSD license, a free for non-commercial license (like maybe something from Creative Commons), or go the Free Software route and use the GNU GPL.

    Anyway, just some things to consider.

  2. Bradley Peters said,

    February 20, 2006 at 6:59 pm

    Oops, I missed an word in my last sentence there. On the chance it did not make sense here is the corrected edition.

    “Either a really liberal license like the new BSD license, a free for non-commercial license (like maybe something from Creative Commons), or go the Free Software route and use the GNU GPL.”

  3. Chris said,

    February 20, 2006 at 11:23 pm

    Why must you always make sense? ;) I’ll update this in the morning. For now, I’ve added a red-texted addendum to the PRO BONO line of my Rate Card.

  4. Chris said,

    February 21, 2006 at 10:55 am

    I’ve now updated the Rate Card page with the appropriate caveat. (Which actually says ‘Caveat’ in front of it in Browsers that support CSS’s ‘content’ property.)

  5. Bradley Peters said,

    February 26, 2006 at 3:39 pm

    I haven’t quite figured this all out, but here’s the outline of an idea for a Python module. It would be nice to have a module that would search the MB Film Classification database.

    http://manitoba.ca/filmclassification

    It should produce a dictionary (or custom dictionary) of the results so that it could be included in a larger program. However, you might also consider writing a command line interface which would allow it to useful on its own.

    I don’t have any kind of schedule; so you’d be free to work on it according to your own schedule. But, if you’re interested, I’d be more than willing to follow any in progress work and give you design tips.

    This might help:
    http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

    Another thing I would recommend is this chapter in Dive Into Python:

    http://diveintopython.org/unit_testing/index.html

    And, here’s an extra incentive becuase I think you’re quite capable of doing it. If you impress me with the end product I’d be willing to pay you a bounty for the code. (I haven’t decided on the amount, but I thought I should let you know I was thinking about it.)

  6. Chris said,

    February 28, 2006 at 12:17 pm

    Sounds like fun. :) I accept.

  7. Bradley Peters said,

    February 28, 2006 at 8:12 pm

    Cool. I’m looking forward to it.

  8. Chris said,

    September 14, 2006 at 10:03 pm

    I am, in fact, still looking at doing this. I have recently been reading my text on Learning Python, and belive that I have started to get my head around the basic concepts it has going. In my spare time between the Theatre site and the RMBR site, and moving, and working on the WOW Guild Bank Manager, I will continue to plug away at this. :)

    Although I just got really scared by their search engine’s query string. They seem to excel at trying to make their lives difficult with that thing.

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