WORD OF THE DAY PLACATE(Verb) \ˈplā-ˌkāt, ˈpla-\ Meaning: Make (someone) less angry or hostile. To allay the anger of, especially by making concessions. Usage: They attempted to placate the students with promises. She eventually storms off into another part of the house and he follows in an attempt to placate her. The administration placated protesters […]
Word Of The Day-19/9/14
WORD OF THE DAY ETIQUETTE(Noun) \ˈe-ti-kət, -ˌket\ Meaning: The rules indicating the proper and polite way to behave. The code of ethical behavior among the members of a profession: medical etiquette. Usage: The couple exhibited poor etiquette when they left the party without saying good-bye to the host and hostess. Her failure to respond to […]
Word Of The Day – 18/9/14
WORD OF THE DAY NICHE(Noun) /niːʃ, nɪtʃ/ Meaning: A shallow recess, especially one in a wall to display a statue or other ornament. A comfortable or suitable position in life or employment. A specialized but profitable segment of the market. Usage: Zeno built a tall wall with about 20 niches for statues of gods and […]
An Introduction to Web Crawling using Ruby and Nokogiri
Web Crawling A web crawler is a program automated script that browses world wide web in methodical and automated manner.Key motivation for designing web crawlers has been retrieve web pages and add their representations to local repository. Other less frequently used names of a web crawler are Bot ants automatic indexers worm Difference between […]
Pelican with github pages
Pelican is a static site generator written in python which allows you to write your content directly using reStructuredText or Markdown. In this blog post, we will discuss how to create and host a static site using pelican and github pages. Installation Lets wrap all our installations inside a separate virtual environment using python virtual environment wrapper. Install […]
