Adrian Holovaty
Adrian Holovaty
Adrian Holovatyis an American web developer, journalist and entrepreneur from Chicago, Illinois, living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is co-creator of the Django web framework and an advocate of "journalism via computer programming."...
adding code features few map since spent time
Since its launch, I haven't spent much time on it, other than adding a few features such as color-coded map markers and ZIP code browsing.
additional citizen create looking offering project searching side site ways work
I was looking for a side project to work on when I stumbled upon the Citizen ICAM site. That site is very useful, but I thought I could create a site that supplemented it by offering additional ways of sorting and searching the data.
feed grab page program provide screen site sort web
Unfortunately the ICAM site doesn't provide an RSS feed or any other sort of data-export capability, so my program does screen scraping, which is essentially retrieving a Web page and programmatically 'reading' the page to grab the data.