In this tutorial we’ll setup a Python development environment on Windows 7. After finishing this tutorial you will be ready to start writing numerical applications, data analysis algorithmns and implement various machine learning methods. I’ve always wanted to get back into numerical computing and Python seems like the way to go.
A while ago I had wanted to design an API for delivering realtime RSS news feeds from multiple sites organized by category so that I wouldn’t have to navigate a reading list of tabs within my browser or simply run out of interesting stories to read whenever my favorites sites offered me nothing of interest.
I used some interesting jquery tricks(at least to me) to make the projects page more visually appealing; read on to learn how it was made. This is the beginning of a series on updates to the overall blog that I will post as I continue to learn more about both the Ruby Jekyll gem and web design in general.
Although it wasn’t easy I finally migrated my blog over to Jekyll. Personally I have nothing against the fantastic work of software that is WordPress it really helped a lot of people all across the world get into blogging and sharing their thoughts but WordPress is at its heart a CMS. Although commonly used to host blogs WordPress is greatly under-utilized as a blogging platform and many of its features become rather obtrusive from a single users perspective.
QALite is a basic Question and Answer Board that’s designed to be embedded within a larger site, it was built using MongoDB and a neat MVC PHP framework called Lithium. If you’ve ever been curious as to how to create a basic questions and answers site or would just like to see an example of applying MVC to PHP then you should definately check it out.
To see the source code for this app and read a brief description about the project visit the Github repo for QALite
In this tutorial I’ll discuss my experience developing and launching(and yes you’ll see how easy it is to launch with Meteor) a realtime javascript application using the Meteor framework; with its built in MongoDB shell and strong client server architecture Meteor is a powerful framework that should become popular for developers wishing to build fast realtime web applications.
Learn about imagescraper, its a small test project I wrote to familiarize myself with the Sinatra microframework. In short you pass it a url and it returns all images from the page.
In this tutorial we’ll create an interesting android application which has the ability to launch any other app you have installed on your phone. If you’ve ever wanted to know how Android applications perform cross app communication you should read on (this tutorial assumes familiarity with the Android API).