For the first python web app I created, most of the tricky parts and learning came with trying to deploy it to a server, which result in lots of trial and error, and writing down a huge long list of… Continue Reading →
Github Actions is a CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment) service built into Github. It makes code deployment as easy as pushing to a github repo. I’ve previously used Zappa which also has a fast way to deploy (and could… Continue Reading →
One of the features of spreadsheets I’ve always found useful is conditional formatting. You can easily highlight if a value is above or below a certain amount, for example to highlight negative figures. This can can dramatically improve readability. I… Continue Reading →
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 →
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