Introduction So maybe one day out of the blue you thought to yourself, “I’d really like to work through SICP or The Little Schemer. And wouldn’t it be neat if I could do it all in the ultra-powerful Org-mode so…
Web crawling is a fun and rewarding skill to develop. Here’s how to get a basic web crawler set up with the Scrapy framework for Python. First you’ll need to install Scrapy. On a unixy platform, just execute pip install…
A little while ago I came across Pete Corey’s post on using Spacemacs and the Olivetti package to configure a minimal, distraction-free writing environment. I’ve used a similar setup for the last couple years, but my implementation uses the Darkroom…
Here are steps you can follow to begin working with Microsoft SQL Server databases using Python. Installing SQL Server 2017 Developer I’ll begin with installing SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition. You can get it by downloading it from this page:…
A few months ago I launched an affiliate site written in Python, using the Flask web framework to serve content. The project made for an interesting (and potentially profitable!) way to learn how to build basic web apps with Python.…
This blog was launched February 2018.