Building a Heroku add-on for fun and profit

The code for this project is located on github: https://github.com/bilalaslam/django-heroku-addon Herok has a fantastic add-on marketplace that gives developers like me a set of services we can use to build apps: If you’re a startup or a small developer, getting featured on the Heroku marketplace can mean extra cash in your bank account every month. Who [...]

What happened to Airbrake (on Django)?

I love startups that serve other startups. Hoptoad is a great example – the founders recognized that most startups want to know their app crashes, but don’t want to set up their own monitoring infrastructure like Monit. I used Hoptoad extensively in my first startup emptyspaceads, which is now defunct. I loved the drop-in-and-go simplicity. [...]

Installing NLTK on Heroku

I love the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) for Python but one of its problems (shared by many mature libraries) is that it has not been updated to work with the latest packaging standards. For example: pip install nltk will not actually work. You will get an error like this: File “nltk/yamltags.py”, line 1, in import [...]