How to quickly build a REST API in Django

Created 12/31/2017 9:40:01 AM
Filed in Python

Vacation time, an excellent time to learn something new, so I figured, why not build a recipe bot that recommends recipes? For that I needed a way to store recipes that the bot could retrieve. And I figured, why not try to build that in Python with Django?

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5 easy steps to start editing python notebooks over SSH

Created 11/6/2017 9:06:47 PM
Filed in Python

When you work with Linux machines on Amazon EC2 or Azure over SSH and want to edit interactive python code you've got a challenge. There is vim and other console based editors, but that might not be what you want. Here's how you can edit python code in your browser over SSH in 4 steps.

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How to setup tox on Windows with Anaconda

Created 11/1/2017 8:57:04 AM
Filed in Python

When you are developing packages for Python you need some way to test whether your package works on someone else's computer. Tox is a great tool for this, but doesn't work well with Anaconda. With some basic steps however you can have your code tested on tox without much trouble.

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Run Rider even with the new .NET Core 2.0 SDK

Created 8/15/2017 8:27:14 AM
Filed in .NET

This week .NET Core 2.0 alongside with ASP.NET Core 2.0 was released. A lot of improvements were made to the runtime and the size of the standard libraries has increased significantly. More and more .

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How to generate PDF documents in ASP.NET Core

Created 8/3/2017 5:40:34 AM
Filed in ASP.NET

A customer I work for wants to generate a set of attachments for an e-mail we need to send to the clients of that customer. We ended up using DinkToPdf with the ASP.NET Core Razor Template Engine to build a PDF generation microservice.

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