Possibility and Probability » django http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog Droplets of Yes and No Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:53:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Matching resumes to jobs http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2009/10/03/matching-resumes-to-jobs/ http://ironboundsoftware.com/blog/2009/10/03/matching-resumes-to-jobs/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:50:48 +0000 Nick http://www.ironboundsoftware.com/blog/?p=309 Have you ever looked at a job posting and tried to figure out if you are a good match for that job?

I’ve written a Google App Engine application to try and help people figure that out. Paste in a copy of your resume and a copy of the job description, and it will try and figure out how well of a match you would be for that job.

Check it out: http://app.ironboundsoftware.com

I’m really impressed with the Google App Engine environment (go Python!) and had fun writing this. Hopefully this will help people out in their job hunt. Times are tough, and hopefully this little application will help someone get into the perfect job for them.

Try it out and let me know what you think!

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  • Get the itch to finish a stale project
  • Carve out some time to work on stale project
  • Upgrade your software stack to make sure you are current*
  • Spend hours figuring out something simple isn’t working
  • Curse, debug, repeat
  • Curse more when you realize that step 3 was where the train went off the rails

    • Yes, I made the mistake to upgrading the Google App Engine Launcher only to discover that for some reason it doesn’t play nice with the Django Helper project (or apparently the latest version of Django).

    *sigh*

    I know, I can go and continue development without those tools, but I was really looking forward to playing with the AppEngine (using a Django project).

    Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.

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    With web addresses (or URLs if you prefer) starting to have unicode values in them, this is a problem that will probably be more common. I noticed this problem when trying to get to web pages that had special characters in them (for example, URLs that feature characters with accent symbols such as in the Spanish language) would cause urllib2.open() to fail. Several website suggested url encoding these special characters, but I didn’t have much luck with it.

    Also today I was using Django’s model layer to store some data (web pages) into a database so I could try some things out. Even though Django is unicode friendly, if there’s the slightest problem in mapping text it will pull out the dreaded UnicodeDecodeError at some point.

    To get around this I wound up just using unicode(text, errors=’ignore’) to make sure that the text that was being passed in was indeed unicode, and to ignore any errors that cropped up. Not ideal, the better solution would be to map correctly, but better than being stuck with data you can’t load/process.

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