Using the TOML configuration format in your applications

July 31, 2018August 3, 2018 sameer

As any one who has programmed knows about configuration files. Configuration files are mostly text files used to configure the parameters and initial settings for computer programs – mostly user applications, operating system settings. Below is a small list of frequently used file formats.

– XML
– Windows INI
– YAML
– JSON
– toml
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Quickly find all links on a web page

July 25, 2018August 3, 2018 sameer

The following PHP script will quickly find all the links on a web page, removing any duplicates and also giving the total count for any duplicate links found.
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How do MVC routers work

July 24, 2018August 3, 2018 sameer 2 Comments

A MVC Router class or a Dispatcher inspects the URL of an HTTP request and attempts to match individual URL components to a Controller and a method defined in that controller, passing along any arguments to the method defined.
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Convert CSV to Excel in PHP

July 12, 2018August 3, 2018 sameer 1 Comment

During a recent data conversion project I needed to convert around 250 CSV files to Excel (xls) format. As this was a PHP project I decided to write a small PHP script using the PhpSpreadsheet library.
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Writing WordPress posts in Markdown

July 4, 2018August 3, 2018 sameer 2 Comments

WordPress allows you to write your posts using Markdown. This feature is available using Jetpack. If you write some of your eBooks or other documents using Markdown, and need to transfer some of the same content to a WordPress blog than this feature is extremely useful. No need to again create a different HTML version of the content.
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Free datasets for testing database engines

July 2, 2018August 3, 2018 sameer

Below is a small list of free datasets with which you can test your database queries or use it for learning and practicing sql query optimization or other things.
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PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser Script

June 21, 2018June 29, 2018 guest 5 Comments

In this post I have explained some elements to scrap data from external websites.
Simple HTML DOM parser is a PHP 5+ class which is useful to manipulate HTML elements. This class can work with both valid HTML and HTML pages that do not pass W3C validation. You can find elements by ids, classes, tags and many more. You can also add, delete or alter DOM elements. The only one thing you should care about is memory leaks – but you can avoid memory leaks as explained later.
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Face detection using jQuery

June 20, 2018June 26, 2018 sameer 9 Comments

Face detection is a common feature in most digital cameras today; the white or red square that pops around someones face when we are focusing the camera on that person. Face detection algorithms enables the software to pinpoint the locations and sizes of human faces in digital images, whatever the surrounding objects may be.
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Rendering text tables with NodeJS

June 18, 2018June 26, 2018 sameer

A recent data project required the program to emit data tables from node which could be piped to other processes. easy-table is one such package which provided a nice way to output text tables in the console.
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How to access Gmail using Python

June 18, 2018June 8, 2019 sameer

In a previous post we saw how you could access Gmail in NodeJS. In this post we will see how we can access Gmail using Python.
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