Do you like coding puzzles? If so, you should go to AdventOfCode.com and prepare yourself for some funny little coding challenges. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. As usual, the Advent …
Python is usually a straightforward language without surprises. However, when you use the round() function you may run into some strange behaviour. Let us have a look at the specialities of round() and what is going on. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You find the code for this post in …
If we want to test our code, we often need files with the right format. We can create a text file without much effort, but what do we do if we need a specific video format or an audio file in OGG? Luckily, we are not the only ones with this problem. There are dedicated …
A few weeks back we were running a data preparation script that took a long time to complete. The main part of the work should not take that much time, but somehow that script was sloooow. I expected that the print() statement for each record would have an impact on performance, but I had no …
QR codes are a nice way to supply your users with an URL without letting them type it into their mobile devices. All they need to do is to point their camera to the QR code and scan it. There are many libraries to create QR codes with .Net. Unfortunately, not all are working with …
It is unbelievable that this is already post #200 for my Python Friday series. Let us use this milestone to look back at the topics we covered since Python Friday #100. Again, you get an easy-to-use reference that lets you jump right to the topics you are interested in. Fundamentals of the Python language …
If we want to find the newest commit that is in our main and in our feature branch, we can use this Git command:
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1fe43981b856bkk8958494949494949494493339 This gives us the hash of the commit that is in both branches (in my example 1f439***). We can then see the details of that commit with git log: …
With Dash and Plotly we can create complex interactive dashboards, while Flask works in the background to gives us all the web capabilities. In this post we turn the tables and add Dash to an existing Flask application. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You find the code for this post …
We run into a strange error last week when we no longer could install NuGet packages from our Azure DevOps feed. Visual Studio only gave us a basic error message about SSL connections, but to get some details we needed to run dotnet restore: error : The SSL connection could not be established, see inner …
After our first steps with Dash last week, we create in this post a more complex dashboard with multiple components that we can update simultaneously. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You find the code for this post in my PythonFriday repository on GitHub. Install the dash-bootstrap-components I like working …