After several requests, I made the code available in plain text for the technical report Implementing a Rating-Based Item-to-Item Recommender System in PHP/SQL.

As an added bonus, Matt Gersting ported the code succesfully in Cold Fusion. I don’t know whether he will make it available or allow me to make it available, but he confirms the code works.

So, if you are a PHP programmer, you have no reason not to jump into collaborative filtering/recommender systems!!!

(But don’t just take the code, read the technical report as well!)

Project Gutenberg is a fantastic project where a large collection of books has been scanned and made available for free. The problem has been that they are available as text which makes automated processing sometimes a problem. Extracting the title of a book can be a problem (though an easy one). However, the nice people at the HTML Writer Guild have maked up a large collection of Gutenberg book using a XML with a publicly available DTD.

Possible application: have a given book be automatically integrated in a content management system (learning management system).

You might also want to consider GutenMark as a tool to process Gutenberg books (output to LaTeX and HTML).

Have you ever been interested in monitoring newly published paper from IEEE? Go get your RSS Feed from IEEE Computer Society!

A little known fact to English speaking LaTeX user is that LaTeX is really bad at supporting languages other than English, even with the babel package which claims to support all languages.

However, by accident, I found this really good page on how to use LaTeX for French documents.