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Build your own Penn State community site using Dapper

It has been an observation of mine that some of the best online communities are the ones that most effectively mimic offline communities. Take Facebook for example. In my opinion, Facebook owes much of its success to its members’ use of real names. My news feed doesn’t say “OgReSLAYER91 is friends with Xx1337haXzorxX.” Instead, it [...]

Posted 27 August 2008 † admin § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Penn State’s Schedule of Courses — un-”dapped” potential

Daehee Park recently wrote about scaping Penn State’s Schedule of Courses to create a free API of course data. His method of choice was to use Beautiful Soup for Python. As I have yet to learn Python, I will be taking a different approach towards the same end: Dapper. Dapper bills itself as a tool [...]

Posted 18 July 2008 † admin § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,