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Day's blog - Yahoo! Pipes Tutorial - An example using the Fetch Page module to make a web scraper
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Pipes Tutorial - An example using the Fetch Page module to make a web scraper. A new Fetch Page module which dramatically increases the number of useful things that Pipes can do. With this new pipe input module we're no longer restricted to working with well-organised data sets in supported formats such as CSV, RSS, Atom, XML, JSON, iCal or KML. Now we can grab any HTML page we like and use the power of the Regex module to slice and dice the raw text into shape. Pipes into a fully fledged web scraping.
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Day's blog - Pipe to filter the Google Code Issue Updates feed
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Pipe to filter the Google Code Issue Updates feed. Google Code provides various feeds. For every project they host. The "Issue Updates" feed contains entries for all the issues on the project. What if you're only interested in one issue. Filter the feed with Yahoo! Baked into an official release of flot. And will be tracking progress with this feed. Never published. Used to show your gravatar. If you have one. You can use Markdown syntax. HTML will be removed. Spam will be burned.
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Thieves - A Solitaire Card Game
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Thieves: A Solitaire Card Game. Thieves is a classic card game for solo play. Includes a scoring system and high score table that remembers your best plays. Click thumbnails for full size images. Download and run to see it in action. For Windows: thieves setup.exe. For Mac, Linux, DOS etc: thieves.tar.gz. For Windows, simply run the installer and then start the game from your start menu. For other systems (Mac, Linux or even DOS), unpack the tar ball to an empty directory of your choosing then run.
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Day's blog - CSS Resets and Grids
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CSS Resets and Grids. As promised in my last post. Introducing the website redesign, I'd like to expand on the various projects that I've used to put this together. Today I'll start with the CSS framework. Firstly, I use Eric Meyer's CSS Reset. And not making sure that the bottom margin of that level three header in your sidebar is the same height in IE as it is in Firefox. Which is well worth the read if you're not familiar with CSS resets. Hellip; I could attempt to make use of a tool like Sass. Are hi...
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A Number Puzzle | Programming Praxis
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A collection of etudes, updated weekly, for the education and enjoyment of the savvy programmer. HOWTO: Posting Source Code. July 21, 2015. In last week’s exercise. We had a word puzzle, so today’s exercise will be a number puzzle:. Find a 10-digit number, with all digits unique, such that the first. Digits of the number are divisible by. Your task is to write a program that finds a 10-digit number as defined above. When you are finished, you are welcome to read. July 21, 2015 at 10:02 AM. Python. Ba...
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Public Service Announcement | Programming Praxis
https://programmingpraxis.com/2015/08/07/public-service-announcement
A collection of etudes, updated weekly, for the education and enjoyment of the savvy programmer. HOWTO: Posting Source Code. August 7, 2015. Long-time readers of this blog will remember. I assume that most of my readers are computer programmers, as I am, and spend much time sitting still. I urge you to get out of your chair every forty-five minutes or so and walk around for five or ten minutes to get your blood moving. It may save your life. I’ll have another exercise for you next Tuesday. Thanks so much...
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The Gas Station Problem | Programming Praxis
https://programmingpraxis.com/2015/07/17/the-gas-station-problem
A collection of etudes, updated weekly, for the education and enjoyment of the savvy programmer. HOWTO: Posting Source Code. The Gas Station Problem. July 17, 2015. Today’s exercise is a classic problem in computer science courses:. Your task is to write a program that determines a suitable starting point for the truck; your algorithm should be linear in the number of gas stations and require constant space. When you are finished, you are welcome to read. July 17, 2015 at 11:37 AM. Repeat until the truck...
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Three Homework Problems | Programming Praxis
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A collection of etudes, updated weekly, for the education and enjoyment of the savvy programmer. HOWTO: Posting Source Code. August 4, 2015. 1 Write a function that takes as input three positive integers and finds the sum of the squares of the two largest of the three. 2 Write a function that takes a positive integer as input and determines if it is a base-10 palindrome. A suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below. August 4, 2015 at 3:43 PM. Not ) a ba...
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Open-source security | Light Blue Touchpaper
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Security Research, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Category Archives: Open-source security. Report on the IP Bill. This morning at 0930 the Joint Committee. On the IP Bill is launching its report. As one of the witnesses who appeared before it, I got an embargoed copy yesterday. The report s deeply disappointing; even that of the Intelligence and Security Committee. And implemented most of its recommendations by executive order; the judiciary made changes to the procedures of the FISA Court.
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Day's blog - Redesign
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I've rewritten the website from scratch. Again. This time the excuse was to learn Django. Using a web framework like Django instead of a CMS like my previous Drupal installation. Gives me a lot more control over the fine details, which suits my pedantic programmer brain. Unfortunately that programmer brain is not so good when it comes to the design side of things, so I opted to keep things simple. This simplicity has resulted in a minimalistic, uncluttered look that I'm actually quite pleased with. You c...
