How I came to love developing in Python
As I've implied previously, I find PHP a desperately bad language for developing web applications. Python is my current favourite; it is a joy to work with both in writing code and maintaining code....
View ArticleWeb apps need scriptable interfaces
I was just working on a set of separate Joomla installations for a client today when I realised that I really needed to be able to run scripts against the different installations. I was trying to...
View ArticlePaypal with Django
In a previous post I discussed the method I used to integrate Paypal's Encrypted Web Payments in generic SSL terms I hoped would make it easy to implement from scratch in any language. I've had a...
View ArticleImage spidering in Python
I have several useful tools in Python for working with websites. Today I needed a script to report the images on a website, along with their corresponding alt tags. The script was extremely quick to...
View ArticleDev versus DevOps
Having spent the past few months working in ops I have learned a wide range of new skills in server and network infrastructure. I found that my skills as a developed augmented what my then competent...
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