Description: Aggregate, categorize and display news on specific topics.
Role: analysis, concepts and development
Tasks:
– I’ve created a custom plugin for WordPress MU which allows the admin to control various settings of all the blogs installed with wpmu.
– Article recognition software – it’s a ruby script which identifies a large section of text inside a html page (that is the main article) and then extracts the relevant paragraphs based on keywords. It was used by the client to create over 60 niche blogs using the same platform, WordPress MU.
Tools: PHP/Mysql, WordPress MU, Ruby
Skills: Working with WordPress plugins, handle specific ruby packages like nokogiri.
Date: 2009

Description: creating a product reviews and comparison site. Gathering as much as possible information on a specific product from various sources, creating useful statistics from technical specifications  which may help users in a buying decision
Tasks: Collect, import and update many products with technical specifications, pics, review links, detect duplicates, normalize the parameter list
Tools: Python, Scrapy, Django, Mysql
Skills: learning the Django framework, python packages like virtualenv, pip, fabric, etc

Url: www.reviewsofnotebooks.com