Building a DeviantArt Recommendation Engine

April 29th, 2008

DeviantArt, with its huge number of artworks and a large userbase, is just the kind of site that could use a good recommendation engine. A recommendation engine is basically a program that analyzes your tastes and recommends some images that you might like. There do not seem to be any official plans to create a recommendation system. So I went ahead and started building my own recommendation engine for DA. […] Continue Reading…


Still Bored – Shade 2

April 23rd, 2008

My latest programming project (which I’ll discuss in a later post; it’s about DeviantArt) is still in the research phase, so today it is again time for another post of diversion and miscellany. And random music stuff.

What Was
A few years ago I temporarily bought into the common illusion that […] Continue Reading…


Plugin Updater 2.1

April 21st, 2008

Here’s another upgrade for the One Click Plugin Updater. Now with even more potentially deadly features! 😛

What’s New
Global update notices (≥ WP 2.5)
Displays an update notification bar on all admin pages when there are new plugin updates available. The update notice will list all available upgrades and include a […] Continue Reading…


Random Photos of Shadowy Reverie

April 17th, 2008

And now, for something completely different! All of my programming projects are currently in various stages of R&D, and I’ve got no scripts or algorithms to show you today. Fortunately I have other interests, too, like visual art and magic 😉 So here are some amateurish photos I’ve taken. […] Continue Reading…


Simple Text Summarizer In PHP

April 12th, 2008

I’ve written a simple text summarizer that can find the most important sentences in any given (English) text and produce a summary of the specified length. It would be pretty easy to adapt the PHP script to other languages, too. […] Continue Reading…