Hey data hackers! We’re all raving fans of Conda Forge, right? We’ll work through 3 simple steps to building a Python package for Conda Forge, and submitting it to the repository.
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Web Scraping in 5 Minutes with Python & Excel
Hey data hackers! Looking for a rapid way to pull down unstructured data from the Web? Here’s a 5-minute analytics workout across two simple approaches to how to scrape the same set of real-world web data using either Excel or Python. All of this is done with 13 lines of Python code or one filter […]
Spotify and libssl in Debian Wheezy
Resolve Spotify’s libssl 0.9.8 dependency in Debian Squeeze
Spotify 0.9.11 and GLIBC in Linux Debian Wheezy
Resolve GLIBC errors when upgrading Spotify in Debian Linux by downgrading to the previous version
MIT/GNU Scheme in OS X
I’ve not mentioned this previously, but I bought a Macbook Air a few months back and it’s one of the greatest purchases I have ever made. I love this thing! It is so damned sexy (observing both its hardware and software), and so damned fast. I picked-up the baller, 13″ model with the Core i7 […]
vim + Python
Below are my current .vimrc settings which, I find, are particularly pleasant for hacking Python. syntax on filetype indent plugin on set tabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set softtabstop=4 set expandtab set autoindent set number ” a useful addition to Python source files is the following: ” vim: tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 ” this requires the ‘set […]
Installing MySQL for Python in Ubuntu
Whilst on the grind this evening, hacking on some Python code in a newly-installed Ubuntu virtual machine, I needed to install MySQL for Python. Building the package, pre-installation, requires mysql_config — which I had some difficulty locating in the repositories. After flailing about a bit, the solution is to install the libmysqlclient-dev package. $ sudo […]
Installing RExcelXML from The Omega Project in R
A quick post to capture the resolution to the past 20 minutes I have spent in frustration trying to install RExcelXML from Omegahat (The Omega Project for Statistical Computing). As this is a source package, the dependencies need to be satisfied manually (which is a bit baffling, frankly — surely there is a workaround for […]
Netflix "Error N8156-6013" Resolution
A seemingly pervasive problem purportedly caused by a recent update to Silverlight, the Netflix streaming player bombed-out on me this evening, whinging about “Error N8156-6013” and complaining that it had issues both with playing DRM content and — for reasons which transcend reason — the date on my (virtual) computer. The solution was simple enough. […]
Virtualbox + XP + Firefox = Netflix in GNU/Linux
Having recently wrested control of my machine from Windows Vista, I’ve had to implement a workaround for Netflix streaming media. Netflix, unfortunately, has yet to see the mistake in building their streaming architecture on Microsoft’s near-dead Silverlight platform. Until they recognize the error of their ways, I need a workaround. I’ve settled on virtualizing XP, […]