CaBi Hack Night V
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Category: Python
Restoring Deleted S3 Objects in Bulk with boto
S3 bucket versioning can be a lifesaver. If you accidentally delete an object, you can restore it in the S3 Management Console by deleting the Delete Marker: But what if you’ve deleted more than a handful of objects? boto to … Continue reading
PDF Liberation Hackathon
Background Whenever I mention hackathons, the usual response is “Is that where you hack into websites?”. In short, no, not usually. In the 1960s at MIT, a hacker was a tinkerer, first with model railroads and later with computers. Thus … Continue reading
Sample Python Code for the D&B Direct 2.0 API
At the DC Tech Hackathon, I had access to the Dun & Bradstreet Direct 2.0 API. Their documentation isn’t great, so I wrote a quick Python example of authenticating and requesting data (also available as a Gist):
Optimal Tours of KFC Locations
Inspired by a Hacker News comment, I wrote a Python script that queries the KFC website for store locations, finds the optimal tour with the Concorde cutting-plane-based exact TSP solver, and generates a KML file that can be plotted in … Continue reading