Programming Leftovers
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Riddle me this
Found this today while playing around, thought people might enjoy this riddle.
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TOP 5 Software Failures of 2018–2019 (#5 is pretty alarming)
In this modern day and age tech is something we can’t even imagine our life without. Technology is so cool and we love it! But not everything goes as planned and the thing that was supposed to make life easier and be useful can become quite scary. So, this week we’ve wanted to bring your attention to the “TOP 5 Software Failures of 2018–2019 (#5 is pretty alarming)”. We are very interested in your thoughts on the matter!
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Using Matplotlib with Wing 7
Wing supports interactive development and debugging of Python code designed for the Matplotlib numerical and scientific plotting library, so plots can be shown and updated from the command line.
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An unexpected character replacement
A few weeks ago I found a replacement in GBIF that I'd never seen before: M<fc>ller. It was a hexadecimal value for the character "ü" enclosed in angle brackets. That particular hex value for "ü" appears in Windows-1252 and other encodings, but what program did this replacement? And why?
Suspecting the worst, I did a search for other angle-bracket-enclosed strings in the dataset. The search turned up a lot of data items which had originally contained a non-breaking space, and which now contained that character's Unicode representation in brackets, for example Laevicardium. Excluding these, the result is shown here:
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40 Simple Yet Effective Linux Shell Script Examples
Historically, the shell has been the native command-line interpreter for Unix-like systems. It has proven to be one of Unix’s major features throughout the years and grew into a whole new topic itself. Linux offers a variety of powerful shells with robust functionality, including Bash, Zsh, Tcsh, and Ksh. One of the most amazing features of these shells is their programmability. Creating simple yet effective Linux shell scripts for tackling day to day jobs is quite easy. Moreover, a modest knowledge over this topic will make you a Linux power user in no time. Stay with us to for a detailed introduction to Unix shell scripting.
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Creating A Super User In Django
Django’s prominent feature is the admin interface, which makes it stand out from the competition. It is a built-in app that automatically generates a user interface to add and modify a site’s content.
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Using PostgreSQL with Django
Django is a high level full-stack open-source web framework written in Python, that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Django, in its ‘out-of-the-box’ state, is set up to communicate with SQLite – a lightweight relational database included with the Python distribution. So by default, Django automatically creates an SQLite database for your project.
In addition to SQLite, Django also has support for other popular databases that include PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle.
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Creating Comments System With Django
In this tutorial, we will build a basic commenting system for a Django 2.X app, which lets readers add comments on posts.
Here is a preview of what we are going to build by the end of this tutorial.
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