BaGoMa backs-up and restores the contents of a GMail account. It can restore all the labels (folder structure), as well as the flags (seen/read, flagged) of a message. It differs from other similar solutions in a few important ways:

It is Open Source Software. You can read the code to make sure your password and email contents remain private.

Some backup solutions force you to use only ASCII characters in your labels. BaGoMa has no such restrictions on label names. Specifically, foreign characters and '/' (the label hierarchy delimiter) are allowed.

BaGoMa is tuned to work specifically with GMail. Each message is only downloaded and saved once. Backup solutions that are designed to work with regular IMAP accounts will download each message multiple times (once per label) when used to back up a GMail account. That can significantly increase the bandwidth requirements and the amount of storage required for backup. Additionally, a faithful restoration of your GMail account might not be possible from such a backup.

BaGoMa requires your GMail account to be IMAP accessible. Check the Mail Settings and make sure "Enable IMAP" is selected under the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab. In the "Folder Size Limits" section on the same tab, make sure the following option is selected: "Do not limit the number of messages in an IMAP folder".

BaGoMa never deletes any email from your account. A restore simply compares the contents of your local backup with the contents of your GMail account, and uploads any messages missing from your GMail account. It never deletes messages from GMail to make it match the local backup.

Google sometimes imposes limits on how much data can be transfered from your account. If you run into such a limitation, just wait a few days and try the backup again. BaGoMa will pick up from where it left off. If the temporary loss of IMAP access is critical to you, think twice before using this script. As far as I'm aware, web access to your email should continue unimpeded even if IMAP access is blocked.

Parting Words: BE CONSISTENT.

If you're editing code, take a few minutes to look at the code around you and determine its style. If they use spaces around all their arithmetic operators, you should too. If their comments have little boxes of hash marks around them, make your comments have little boxes of hash marks around them too.

The point of having style guidelines is to have a common vocabulary of coding so people can concentrate on what you're saying rather than on how you're saying it. We present global style rules here so people know the vocabulary, but local style is also important. If code you add to a file looks drastically different from the existing code around it, it throws readers out of their rhythm when they go to read it. Avoid this.

Some of you may have come out of the womb hacking shell scripts to disable that Internet-enabled baby video surveilliance monitor that your parents used to watch what you're doing on their iPad in the kitchen (visualize eTrade baby hacking away on a terminal app on his Android phone). But, I suspect most of us started more modestly than that and moved up the learning curve (some faster than others). The following is a somewhat fictional, somewhat true recollection.

Free open source full-stack framework for rapid development of fast, scalable, secure and portable database-driven web-based applications. Written and programmable in Python.

Following up to my overview of article text extractors, I’ll try to compile a list of research papers, articles, web APIs, libraries and other software that I encountered during my research.

ScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor. In the free version, the code and data are shared with the world. Because it's a wiki, other programmers can contribute to and improve the code.

This is the site for the book "Learn Python The Hard Way". The book is a very beginner book for people who want to learn to code. If you can already code then the book will probably drive you insane. It's intended for people who have no coding chops to build up their skills before starting a more detailed book.

Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language.

It bundles tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider, HTML DOM parser), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface, syntactical + semantical n-gram search algorithm, tf-idf + cosine similarity + LSA metrics) and data visualization (graph networks).

The module is bundled with 30+ example scripts.

PDFMiner is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. Unlike other PDF-related tools, it focuses entirely on getting and analyzing text data. PDFMiner allows to obtain the exact location of texts in a page, as well as other information such as fonts or lines. It includes a PDF converter that can transform PDF files into other text formats (such as HTML). It has an extensible PDF parser that can be used for other purposes instead of text analysis.

Meet Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Developed four years ago by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly.

Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY principle.

FlexGet is a multipurpose automation tool for content like torrents, nzbs, podcasts, comics, etc. FlexGet is able to handle different kinds of sources like RSS-feeds, html pages and even csv files. There are even some plugins for sites that do not provide any kind of useful feeds.

There are numerous plugins that allow utilizing FlexGet in interesting ways and more are being added continuously.

FlexGet is extremely useful in conjunction with applications which have watch directory support.

Welcome to Google's Python Class -- this is a free class for people with a little bit of programming experience who want to learn Python. The class includes written materials, lecture videos, and lots of code exercises to practice Python coding. These materials are used within Google to introduce Python to people who have just a little programming experience. The first exercises work on basic Python concepts like strings and lists, building up to the later exercises which are full programs dealing with text files, processes, and http connections. The class is geared for people who have a little bit of programming experience in some language, enough to know what a "variable" or "if statement" is. Beyond that, you do not need to be an expert programmer to use this material.

Here is how to integrate Google Voice with a PBX. This guide was designed for PBX in a flash, which is built upon Asterisk.

The first steps are to install PBX in a flash. Here is a good guide for doing so:

http://knol.google.com/k/ward-mundy/pbx-in-a-flash/

Running the setup above copies over a setup script to integrate into your Asterisk configuration setup. Simply run

$ asterisk-gvoice-setup

answer a couple questions, then restart your PBX instance.

Nerdvittles published a article on how to make free outbound calls via google voice and Asterisk. Has anyone tried this yet? If so was it successful?

I have followed the instructions but can seem to get it to work. It looks like outbound calls is fine I even see the call setting up in a confrence bridge but the far end never rings..

Also I am a little confused on why do I need two DIDs set up with my google voice account. This could be why it isnt working. but I have one DID poined to a meetme confrence bridge. What do I do with the 2nd DID?

Thanks
Dan

This project aims to bring the power of the Google Voice API to the Python language in a simple, easy-to-use manner. Currently it allows you to place calls, send sms, download voicemails/recorded messages, and search the various folders of your Google Voice Accounts. You can use the Python API or command line script to schedule calls, check for new received calls/sms, or even sync your recorded voicemails/calls. Works for Python 2 and Python 3.

Specto is a desktop application that will watch configurable events (such as website updates, emails, file and folder changes, system processes, etc) and then trigger notifications.

For example, Specto can watch a website for updates (or a syndication feed, or an image, etc), and notify you when there is activity (otherwise, Specto will just stay out of the way). This changes the way you work, because you can be informed of events instead of having to look out for them. Better than clicking the refresh button on Caturdays, huh?

Specto is free and open source software distributed under the GNU GPL license.

Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful:

1. Beautiful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and run away.
2. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need. You don't have to create a custom parser for each application.
3. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about encodings, unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup can't autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original encoding.

IrishPulse is a "microplanet" for Irish Twitter users, similar to Portland's Pulse of PDX -- an aggregator of the "stream of consciousness" that comes out of our local Twitter community.

Planet Venus is an awesome ‘river of news’ feed reader. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.

I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the CRO database in the past few weeks, so I wrote this python script called croscraper.py to do a quick lookup on companies.

Dive Into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers. You can buy a printed copy, read it online, or download it in a variety of formats. It is also available in multiple languages.

Webstemmer is a web crawler and HTML layout analyzer that automatically extracts main text of a news site without having banners, ads and/or navigation links mixed up.