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 [...]

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 [...]