Updated (*) 17/1014 2 new bullet points at the end. At the first Code The City event, held in Aberdeen in June 2014, one of the projects which was worked on for the weekend was the setting up of a
Scraping Tools – A quick round-up
I’ve written here before about using Scraperwiki to scrape content from websites which haven’t implemented OpenData. I have even used Scraper Wiki to scrape our own website to get badly-formed content out in a structured way for a hack. Now,
Top non-fiction reads of 2013
Four of my five top non-fiction books which I read this year are Python programming titles. This is unsurprising as I’ve spend a considerable amount of time teaching myself Python via books and MOOCs. The titles below will take you
First look: Mining The Social Web – Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc
Have you ever wanted to use the APIs of the main Social Media platforms, to download and analyse data, manipulate it and combine it with other data sources? Then this excellent, updated book is for you. [AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”1449367615″] The sample
Aberdeen Culture Hack – Ach, it was good fun!
Having had a whale of a time at the Aberdeen Culture Hack (aka #ach13) last weekend it was my intention to write a full blog post, but Kevin Mitchell beat me to it. So, I’ll pick out a few highlights
Book Review Programming the Raspberry Pi: getting started with Python
Whether you are a complete new-comer to the Raspberry Pi, or someone with a bit more experience of the pocket-sized pc or of the Linux Open Source Operating System, you will find lots of valuable information in Simon Monk’s new
Taming the Python – geting started programming on your Raspberry Pi
Last Christmas I got a Raspberry Pi as a present. As you may know it comes with the Python programming language as standard. As a former programmer, who started on punch cards at school, wrote some Sinclair Basic for ZX81,