Cookbook

See Category:Cookbook

Audio

• Simple algorithmic sequencing - Python
• Manipulating audio from the command-line with sox - Shell
• Using a microphone as a sensor - Python
• Net-Art Radio - Shell

Database

• Escaping MySQLdb queries

Django

• NewDjangoProject
• Recreating your database

Email

• Simple Mailbomber - Shell
• Network Theory Spam Machine - Shell
• Random Email Spam Machine - Shell

Files

• Doing "something" with all files in a directory - Command-line, Python
• Reading from a binary file - Python
• Zero-padding names

Food

• Peasoup with mint - Soup

Hardware setup

• iSight with Ubuntu

Image

• A introduction to the command-line using ImageMagick
• Manipulating images from the command-line with ImageMagick
• More ImageMagick-tricks from DIT-Fanzine workshop - Python + Bash
• Generating an ePub filled with images - Python
• Drawing graphs with Python + PyGraphViz

Lists

• Working with lists in Python - Python

Networking

• Netcat Chat - shell, netcat
• Get some HTTP content without a browser - Shell, netcat
• Tunnel your HTTP traffic with ssh - Shell, SSH, SOCKS
• Sniff HTTP traffic on your machine - Shell, dsniff
• Wrap network traffic of almost any application with a SOCKS proxy - Shell, Dante, SOCKS

Operating Systems

• Starting a daemon or agent on OSX boot/login - Property List, Shell
• Running a Django dev environment from VirtualBox - !VirtualBox, Python, GNU/Linux
• Some notes on the install day.
• Create a new user account on your GNU/Linux machine - Shell

Print

• Command-line page layout

Video

• Using a camera as a sensor - Python
• Compressing FLV videos with ffmpeg
• FFMpeg

Text

• Working with special characters: Unicode - Python
• Generating the chapters of an ePub using a couple of HTML files - Python
• Using regular expressions in Python
• Simplifying HTML by removing "invisible" parts - Python, lxml
• Stripping all the tags from HTML to get pure text - Python, nltk
• Looking up synonym-sets for a word - Python, wordnet
• Splitting text into sentences - Python, nltk
• Removing common words / stopwords - Python, nltk

Web

• Simple CGI Script in Python

• Escaping special HTML characters - Python
• Creating and working with URLs - Python
• Downloading all images from a page with a custom Web Spider - Python
• Downloading all images from a thread in 4chan - Python
• Loading data from a URL - Python
• Reading data from Twitter - Python
• Scraping a web page (using html5lib & "the dom") - Python
• JQueryBasics
• From the beginning of time... / Performing an RSS feed with time
• Downloading images from a Flickr RSS search feed
• Creating a new Django application from scratch
• Follow and download user's favorites photos on Flickr Python, flickrapi, spider
• JSON parsing from an API and do something with it - JSON, Python, API

Agenda

• Convert Networked Media schedule wiki page into calendar file for the 'remind' command line utility - Perl

Electronics & Hardware

• Soldering electronic circuits
• Basic electronic components
• Arduino
• Teensy
• Arduino Midi interface
• Teensy USB MIDI device code
• Piezo-disc preamplifier circuit

Other

• Performing Addition with People

To be categorized

• BeautifulSoup
• BASH - Has several subpages, actually this content needs to be made specific to NMM -- right now it's too much yet-another-guide to BASH.
• CompilingOpenSourceSoftware Needs to be rewritten, expanded to a larger Cookbook section on Getting new (open source) software...
• Algorithmic Media needs to get split into various examples of "generating images, audio, and video"
• Audio Cutup PD Patch (images missing)
• ClassyTurtles (Example of using Classes to Implement Turtle Graphics with the PIL)