Programmers in the current era like to work using IDEs because it is more user friendly. But there are reasonable number of programmers who still use command line for programming. Their favourite editor might be Vim. Vim is easy to use, light-weight and comes with almost every Unix distribution. Unlike IDEs, it does not hang […]
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 […]
JSFiddle : Write and share JS easily
Javascript is the backbone of frontend developers. In fact, knowledge in javascript is an added advantage for every web developer. Need some tool/website for trying out javascript? Need a site which can be used for sharing your js code? A site that can be used to edit js code by multiple persons simultaneously? All in […]
Executing bash commands via Python 3
In python, executing bash commands can be done using subprocess module. It’s pretty easy to use and it’s a powerful module. For simple commands, we can use subprocess.call Usage: Eg: total 4 -rw-rw-r– 1 tevin tevin 15 Sep 3 15:29 test.txt You can also use subprocess.check_call and subprocess.check_output Popen: For more flexibility, you can use […]