I’ve spoken in depth about getting Django ready to use in this article, so I’m not going to go through the general setup commands in too much detail. Suffice to say, once you’ve got your […]
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Pulling data from MySQL into Google Charts using Django
Pulling data from MySQL into Django is pretty straightforward. This article will show you some code samples of exactly that. In the below, you’ll see I have a load of DB queries. Each query is […]
An in depth look at Django
In Django, we have a few concepts. We have projects, apps, views, models, templates and a few more bits and bobs. In this article, I want to go through Django Project App Views.py Models.py Templates […]
Making a random password generator website with django
While learning Django, it’s important to have some real world problems to tackle. Strong passwords are of course really important and so generators have become popular. So, the first thing we do is edit our […]
A guide to using templates in django
In Django, we have a few concepts: URLs, Views and Templates (models too, but we’ll talk about them in a future article). You can think of the flow like this: User requests a particular web […]
Getting django setup and ready to use
I am not the biggest fan of sys admin kind of tasks – I really just want an environment that works so that I can get to work. So when it came to installing a […]
Making a simple command line to do list in Python
I’ve been asked recently what some super simple tasks would be to support learning Python so I’ve decided to post a few of them. Yesterday, you may have seen my article, looking at how we […]
Building a quiz with a time limit in python and golang
In this article, I am going to go through how we might create a terminal based quiz application where we ingest a CSV with quiz questions and answers, accept an answer from a user (and […]
The basics of threading in Python
If you’re a frequent reader of my website, you’ll know that I’ve been doing a lot with Golang recently.. like, a lot and it got me thinking about how easy concurrency is in Golang and […]
Querying the Google Analytics API using OAUTH
Today I want to talk about querying the Google Analytics API. In the previous posts, we looked at querying Twitter and YouTube APIs. With each of these, we didn’t need to jump through the OAuth […]
Extracting data from the YouTube API
In this article, we’re going to look at extracting data from the YouTube Data API. For this, we need to setup an API key, which you can get via the Google Developer Console. Now, you […]
Scraping websites using rotated user agents & summarising the returned content
Scraping other websites is amazing – it’s a rich source of data that you don’t have to pay for, that you can use for some serious analysis. The problem is, websites may have provisions in […]
