Last year I released a tool that lets you track a Yahoo Fantasy Football league in Python. Recently I finished a complete refactor of it into more of an API, so it can be used directly by other projects or scripts. It also includes an example script that just dumps the information to stdout. Check [...]

Spent this past weekend at PyCon in Atlanta and had a great time. Most of the talks were pretty good, though there were some duds. You can find videos of the talks online but I thought I would post my notes from a few talks that I went to. These notes are mostly things that [...]

This post is out of date, the program has been updated to work for 2010 see here: http://matburt.net/?p=103 Every year around this time I find myself faced with a problem. I really enjoy football and playing fantasy football but I’m pretty much locked into Yahoo’s terrible web interface. Each year I tell myself I’m going [...]

During the day I like to listen to various audio streams so I find myself switching back and forth between music and news.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could play streams for a given amount of time?  I couldn’t find anything that did it automatically so I wrote this quick Python program to do [...]

I like to tell stories about poorly written code.  As a programmer you come across it all the time, and good programmers work really hard to make sure everything they write is both clean and as free from bugs as you can make it.  There is a reason, though, that we spend so much time [...]