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Jacob Perkins is an open source programmer, NLP hacker, and startup entrepreneur. He is currently the CTO & co-founder of Weotta, a semantic search engine for local events, activities, restaurants and more. His major open source contributions are to NLTK, a Python toolkit for natural language processing, and Seahorse, the Gnome encryption key application. He contributed a chapter to the Bad Data Handbook and runs a site for NLTK demos and APIs. ...more

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Monitoring Celery Tasks with Sentry

Sentry is a great tool for monitoring celery tasks, and alerting when they fail or don’t run on time. But it requires a bit of work to setup properly. Below is some sample code for setting up sentry monitoring of periodic tasks, followed by an explanation.

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	Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook 3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook: LITE Edition really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natural Language Processing: Python and NLTK by Nitin Hardeniya, Jacob Perkins (Goodreads Author), Deepti Chopra 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natural Language Processing: Python and Nltk by Nitin Hardeniya, Jacob Perkins (Goodreads Author), Deepti Chopra 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Specification of Jacob Perkins and John Martineau the younger : furnaces 1855 [Leather Bound] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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