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Here I introduce my solution to deal with multiple newsletters and services requesting your email address while keeping your email private and safe.
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Some time ago I wrote some lengthy instructions on how to configure Django, NGinx and Green Unicorn on a brand new Ubuntu EC2 instance. Now, I want to show how to automate the same tasks using a command line tool called Bellatrix. We will also provide a Jenkins (formerly Hudson) pipeline, so we have (if we want) a nice …
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Django has become the de-facto web framework for Python. Although, since Django just specializes in dynamic content, you have to combine it (at least in production) with an HTTP server to serve static content such as css, javascript files and images files. In the past, the communication protocol between Python web …
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In this snippet I will show how to use the Tweepy library to get statistics from Tweeter. The script will read a sample feed from the Twitter Streaming API (https://web.archive.org/web/20100723015215/http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api) and perform the following actions: Read the sample feed Note the number of …
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Back in the day, I had to make a simple html editor. This can be accomplished in a few lines of code, by using a simple TCppWebBrowser (wb) component and the IHTMLDocument2 interface. You will also need a TMemo (memo1) control. Here is the source code. I hope it helps someone 🙂 …
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How to organize and avoid concurrency problems when implementing complex projects in Hudson?
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Hi, below there is a little snippet that calculates the closest point on a segment to a determined point. It is written in C++ but can be easily translated to any other language. Disclaimer: given its age, it uses hungarian notation, and some names are in Spanish, but it was thoroughly tested and works as expected. …
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1 Task: Parse a file and capture whatever text appears between a pair of double quotes like the following: “Catch me” Not so difficult, you could use the following regex: 1“.*” This will match any character within double quotes in a group ¿any? Well, if you have to deal with multi-line characters (CR / LF) like in the …
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