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Comment on Include posts by matching authors in your search results by Nick Hamze

Nick Hamze — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:35:52 +0000

Reblogged this on Nick Hamze.

Comment on On breakups by talsafranal Safran

talsafranal Safran — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:31:23 +0000

hug

Comment on Brian Lam on what technology means for happiness by Tylon

Tylon — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:30:14 +0000

Technology has saved my life. Earning my certifications during the time I spend here at the prison has been very healthy for me. I see what you mean, but you gotta be pro-active even with technology. People just need to find more time for healthy things. Word up.

Comment on How Zach Seward gets his news by Alex Kessinger

Alex Kessinger — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:22:28 +0000

Thanks for pointing me to this post. I was insipred by a couple of things to write a blog post about RSS, and the future of RSS.

http://www.rumproarious.com/2012/01/31/rss-needs-a-new-pr-team/

Comment on College Publisher to WordPress conversion script is now open source by Daniel O'Connor

Daniel O'Connor — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:05:16 +0000

OpenOffice Calc supports multi-char delimiters, so it can be used to clean up the .csv.

Comment on College Publisher to WordPress conversion script is now open source by Christopher Groskopf (@onyxfish)

Christopher Groskopf (@onyxfish) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:37:31 +0000

Hey, csvkit also won’t handle multi-char delimiters either, but I suspect there are no legitimate “|||” strings in your data, so you can probably just replace it with a single delimiter. In vim this would be something like:

:%s/|||/,/g

But you could just as easily do it with Find/Replace in whatever your text editor is choice is. Once you’ve got it down to a single delimiter you should be able to process it with Excel or whatever.

That being said, who knows what other land mines are in that data. (quoting?) If you can get a clean file, that’s a much better solution.

Cheers,
Chris

Comment on College Publisher to WordPress conversion script is now open source by Daniel Bachhuber

Daniel Bachhuber — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:45:38 +0000

So, the challenge with this is that it's a multi-character delimiter which my conversion script doesn't handle. In fact, the Python CSV library won't handle it. If you want to use the conversion script, you have a couple of options:

Ask College Publisher for a properly formatted CSV
Convert the file you have into a properly formatted CSV

For the latter, csvkit might be of use. I haven't used it before though.

Comment on Presentation: WordPress as a learning management system for #NYEdTech by Sheharyar

Sheharyar — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:18:03 +0000

This is a very interesting application of WordPress. I actually have to implement an online Learning/Student Management for a start-up institute and am confused about choosing the correct platform. Personally, I would love to implement WordPress but not quite sure how.

I would love to get some tips from you. Send me an email or something, please.

Comment on College Publisher to WordPress conversion script is now open source by Daniel O'Connor

Daniel O'Connor — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:16:43 +0000

They suck, don’t they? I spent four days last week trying to clean that mess up!

Comment on College Publisher to WordPress conversion script is now open source by Jared

Jared — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:45:15 +0000

Sure! Here’s some.

http://pastebin.com/91jxTysP