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Programming Projects

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Simple Steganography hider and revealer for PNG images

1st November 2009

The Wikipedia article on Steganography shows an image of trees with a hidden image of a cat. This script can reveal the cat from the trees, and also hide other PNGs within PNGs.

Python

Image Steganography

steg.py

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PostgreSQL full text search and SQLAlchemy - Create a search for your website

16th August 2009

PostgreSQL's full text search indexes the columns you want to search on, automatically removes words like the & and and finds plurals, singulars etc from the word stem. This script shows how to use PostgreSQL's full text search with SQLAlchemy. An example of this is the search bar in the top right of this website.

Python

PostgreSQL full text search and SQLAlchemy

search.py

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Export music collection info to a database

6th August 2009

Assuming your music is organised by Windows Media Player in 'My Music' - this script adds artists, albums and songs to a database and creates an HTML page listing all your music. It finds album art, and attempts to normalize file names by stripping track numbers off them for example.

Python

music.py

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Captchas

29th July 2009

Captcha.py is a script that generates a captcha image that can be used to stop simple spammers in web forms. captchamain.py shows a way of using the script with a Werkzeug & Mako implementation. The original captcha implementation is copyright to Robert McDermott. The original code can be found here.

Python

Creating captchas in Python and Creating captchas in Python 2

captcha.py and captchamain.py

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Blog Tags

29th July 2009

A very simple script that shows a way of generating tag weightings for a blog, such as the one on the right.

Python

Blog tags in Python

tags.py