jamslevy

Taught or Not?: great app

2008-06-12T13:22:01.0012Z

Good morning,

really a very nice idea and wondeful implementation.

congrats

maritn

PullQuotes.org: Seriously cool!

2008-05-31T18:41:07.0000Z

This is actually just a preview release, and the real deal should be more useful for the average person, and less easy to ace.

For now, I've replaced the footer on all my apps, with the Freebase logo and license info.

Thanks for your feedback!

PullQuotes.org: Seriously cool!

2008-05-29T23:53:16.0005Z

James, this is seriously cool! I'm loving it. Kind of addictive too. Lovely work.

I was wondering, would you mind using the attribution template that's in our licensing policy, or something similar to it? The "Powered by Metaweb" logo you're using is outdated, and we prefer to be credited as "Freebase" these days (anything else just seems to cause confusion).

Shot or Not?: Fun app

2008-05-21T07:21:45.0000Z

That's for the coroner to decide, I believe.

But actually, you have a point. Is AIDS a cause of death? Is murder a cause of death? It's a bit of a pandora's box.

Anyways, the two games are up. Very modest in scope, but they were useful for learning the basics of MJT.

I'm working on a new one now that is somewhat more complex, so I'll throw that up when it's ready.

Shot or Not?: Fun app

2008-05-21T00:46:45.0000Z

got it, I suppose the first one on the list is good enough. But, you know, what if the person in question was shot *while* skiiing into a tree? :)

Shot or Not?: Fun app

2008-05-18T01:29:33.0000Z

This is actually done in MJT. From the documentation I thought that doing what you suggest and then using syntax like

'$q.result.cause_of_death[0].cause_of_death'

would work. Because if I just ask for cause of death: [] and then use $q.result.cause_of_death when there are multiple entries,it will return something like "SkiingSkiiningAccident" for Sonny Bono.

Shot or Not?: Fun app

2008-05-17T05:28:16.0000Z

just use [ ] instead of null and that val will be a list that you can iterate through in your python code. nice idea!

mjt.freebase.MqlRead({

type:"/people/deceased_person",

name: null,

id: "/en/vincent_van_gogh",

cause_of_death: [ ],

limit: 1,

})

Shot or Not?: re: Fun App

2008-05-17T00:55:25.0005Z

And yes, Will, I'm going to be updating these apps whenever I have time. I'm preparing to graduate from college right now, so I'm lacking significant spare time right now.

And I'm also working on a third app.I'll be posting updates on my blog: http://jamtoday.beehold.us

Thanks for your interest!

Shot or Not?: Fun app

2008-05-17T00:52:47.0007Z

Yeah, the problem is related to getting more than one cause back from the following query:

mjt.freebase.MqlRead({

type:"/people/deceased_person",

name: null,

id: "/en/vincent_van_gogh",

cause_of_death: null,

limit: 1,

})

I belive I just need to expand the cause_of_death request so that there is a limit of one cause returned.

Shot or Not?: Fun app

2008-05-14T19:54:18.0007Z

There's seems to be problem in that I keep get an error message (seems to be related to mis-guessed selections).

Shot or Not?: Fun app

2008-05-12T18:13:29.0005Z

Hi James, this is a fun app. Are you going to develop it further? It's also the first Freebase / Google App Engine app that I've seen.