NYCPHP Meetup

[Edward Potter]

You may want to tackle the built in dictionary in Unix. You can come up 
with some really cool band and book names quite easily using a perl or 
php script to generate random names. Plus it's a good exercise. You 
could generate a million names a minute i bet!  :-)

-- e



Ted Shieh wrote:

> Hi, I just wrote a PHP program that produces music/movie/book 
> recommendations.  It is supposed to produce recommendations in this form:
> 
> (starting from the fact that the user likes New Order - Bizarre Love 
> Triangle)
> 90 people who like New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle also like New Order - 
> Ceremony
> 80 people who like New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle also like New Order - 
> Everything's Gone Green
> 60 people who like New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle also like Joy Division 
> - Atrocity Exhibition
> etc.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have enough data in the database to produce 
> meaningful recommendations yet.  If each of you could give me a list of your 
> ten (or more) favorite songs, movies, or books in this format:
> artist/filmmaker/author - title
> it would help me tremendously.
> 
> If you'd like to see how it looks so far, take a look at 
> http://www.liquidmarkets.com/?name=youmightlike
> (click on an artist, then click on a title to get a list of 
> recommendations).  The program for entering data is 
> http://www.liquidmarkets.com/?name=ilike (but if you e-mail me your 
> favorites, I'll enter them for you).
> 
> In return, I can offer a free copy of LiquidClassifiedsXML 0.8.1 to each 
> person who sends me a list of ten or more of his/her favorite 
> songs/movies/books.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ted
> 
> LiquidMarkets
> Financial data and free classifieds
> http://www.liquidmarkets.com
> 
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