I’m using Mailbluster for my email marketing / newsletter. It’s simpler and cheaper than Mailchimp, and a bit more user friendly than ‘Email Subscribers’ (for WordPress) that I’ve used in the past. It’s built on top of Amazons Simple Email… Continue Reading →
One of the best things about learning to code in Python is the ability to save yourself time by automating repetative tasks, or as Al Sweigart puts it, to “Automate The Boring Stuff”/. When I was faced with having to… Continue Reading →
As I’m expanding my online sales through eBay, I’ve found its quite difficult to actually find basic statistics of the monthly sales by item. This is quite important if you sell the same product over and over again, as I… Continue Reading →
In the second post in this series on Python for Mechanical Engineers, we’ll do an example calculation to show the flexibility of Python and Jupyter labs. You can follow this tutorial with the code available on github. 1. Problem… Continue Reading →
Weather Monitoring – Part 1 – with ThingSpeak and Slack Weather Monitoring – Part 2 – Air Quality sensing with Shinyei PPD42NS Part 3 – This post It’s over a 2 years since the last time I worked on my… Continue Reading →
One of the great advantages of Python is the ecosystem of thousands of packages that you can easily add functionality to a project – and these packages are very easy to install – just: pip install package_name In this tutorial… Continue Reading →
One of the (few!) frustrating things I find when I’m either reading my own or someone else’s Python code is when I come across a function call like this(1): Arrrgh! Unless you are sufficiently up to speed with the function… Continue Reading →
Top five things to improve your coding (in no particular order): 1. Document your code (automatically) 2. Write Object Oriented code 3. Get acquainted with useful packages 4. Write tests for your code 5. Use a version control system (This… Continue Reading →
Digital Ocean and Vultr and other VPS providers have an ability to create a snapshot of a server to be reused, and easily spin up a server with your particular configuration – however that locks you in to their platform…. Continue Reading →
Top five things to improve your coding (in no particular order): 1. Document your code (automatically) 2. Write Object Oriented code 3. Get acquainted with useful packages 4. Write tests for your code (This post) 5. Use a version control… Continue Reading →
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