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Get the innerText of an element in Scrapy
How do you get the innerText when using Scrapy? Short answer is, you don't. But by adding BeautifulSoup you can.
BigQuery and firebase analytics cookbook
Actual and practical BigQuery examples of how to get valuable data out from Firestore Analytics. Real example code.
How to download a list of URLs using bash
Data merge with SVG in the browser
In 2019 I was tasked to generate a file of tags in SVG from a CSV. I built a small tool using only browser tech and here is the code.
Gitlab CI Flutter with test reports in 15 minutes
Gitlab CI Flutter set up in only fifteen minutes. Let me show you how I did it and share my actual running Gitlab CI Flutter template.
Generating Flutter package badges
Using jQuery, a pub.dev open API endpoint and a CORS proxy to generate badges for flutter packages. A quick experiment in JS tooling.
Getting a Firebase JWT for testing
Struggling to find a Firebase JWT to test your backend with? Fear not, this Firebase JWT project will help you get there in a few clicks.
Scraping HTML tables with Scrapy
A simple one file utility class to help scrape html tables with Scrapy and get the output in rows of arrays or dictionaries.
Save time debugging Scrapy with shell
Cut down on debugging time by using Scrapy shell to quickly inspect and test your selectors.
XML as HTML using XSLT with Javascript in 30 minutes
Post-install hook for Podfile failing after upgrading to Flutter 2
Supporting iOS 14 with Admob
Hiring for JReader
How I report bugs
Reporting bugs effectively can really save developer time and help get bug fixes in faster. This is the format and tools I use
How to split a PR
Small PRs are great, but splitting them? Though worth your time it can be difficult. Let me share some examples.
Running flutter on AWS Device farm
Loading overlay in Flutter
Example of refactoring with proxy pattern
A practical example refactoring and using the proxy pattern. We use this code for performance tracing in the JReader map to log performance to Firebase.
Reloading future with flutter FutureBuilder
The Flutter FutureBuilder is a great way to render async operations but you need to take care if you want to reload or rerun the future. Here I'll show how.
How small PRs change everything – Lessons from the MoJ
How our team pull review culture transformed by aiming to keep pull requeests under 200 lines of code. Making reviews better, faster and less painful.
Nothing survives the first contact with users
I spent fourteen hours building an app only to have it killed in a few words during the first feedback session. But this was far from a failure.
Taking decisions and prioritising
Everyday we are taking decisions, some have bigger impact and requires more thought. How do we approach this and how do wee handle disagreement?
Introducing feature flags to Ruby on Rails
How feature flagging in ruby can be dead simple and still give you very benefits. But for complex cases, there are many feature toggle libraries as well.
Dealing with legacy code – Lessons from the Moj
Technical debt creeps into any software and only we as developers can keep it at bay. We battled legacy code at the MoJ and this is how we approached it.
Onboarding – Lessons from the MoJ
The first in a series of posts on things I learned during the Video Hearings project at the MoJ. This time, thoughts on to do a good onboarding.
How to show flutter test coverage in Gitlab CI
It is super easy to show flutter test coverage in gitlab ci merge requests using thlcov, genhtml and the coverage option.
Load testing with Azure test plan or alternatives
Thinking of Load Testing with Azure test plan? How does it stand up to alternatives such as JMeter or Gatling? Can you do performance testing with C#?
5 ways to become a better software engineer
Getting bored? Work stressing you out? Stuck at your current level? No pay-raise? Become a better software engineer, get hired, paid and rock your job.
MuCon 2019 Takeaways
My takeaways, things I picked up and reflected around during and after Skillsmatter's MuCon 2019. Should you choose microservices? "It depends".
Measure team code health using Github
Work Work Stats is a tool to measure team code health using Github stats. Looking at pull request size and life time we can glint how well dev is doing.
Speed up translation by automating google translate
An easy way to automate google translation. This post shows how to use node.js and gtranslate cli to quickly translate a json of country names.
TravelRates app released! A productive week with cold in Bali
Read the story how a week with cold in Bali can result in a mobile app software release to put in your personal portfolio and the things to learn from it.
Bulk change photo timestamps on mac
Interface segregation but what about our objects?
Severity is a priority, or was it the other way around
Communication in text
User stories and use cases
EnumerableExtension
Trying out NDepend
Tomato is a fruit!
WPF editable ComboBox binding
Hosting services easily on windows
MvvmLight and CanExecute
Loggly gotchas
Configuring Serilog from json
Slowness in Selenium RemoteWebDriver using Ruby on Windows
Jenkins with Visual Studio Online
Lazy day
Git credentials on Windows
Ruby and DRb
Event store growing but no data added?
Mark all mail as read in gmail
Alias for windows command line
Live Mine Field – Welcome in!
How do I (#,%-+ that integer/date/float?
Environment variables and too much scripting
My path registered EXE where art thou?
DataTemplate based on type in WPF
Passing string array from VBScript to C# COM class
Keeping it clean
VMWare problems with keyboard and mouse capture
Free coverage control in Visual Studio
Crayon syntax highlighter
IndentationSplitter
View model property generation
The Web We Want
Viewing registered COM interfaces and their signatures
Online .Net/C# regex validator/playground
Sort your list drag & drop in the web
Revoke impersonation in C#
SQL query statistics
Rounding or grouping datetime in SQL
Get all users in an active directory group
Debug silverlight in firefox
First entry in Play store – Track my Training
Snowball Excercise
Want to group by date? Cast to date!
Tools of trade – Get hostname by alias or ip
SQL Bottlenecks
Forcing checkout on files edited during offline
Saving binary fields to disk aswell as other neat stuff
Yield Return Dangerously Delicious
Comparing exact datetimes in entity framework
Copy from WPF Datagrid
Table variables in SQL Server – The dbo_reader´s friend
Table size
Dangerous cache
Converting binary data to text in TSQL
First pingback
Select on on TextBox Focus
Measure milliseconds when executing TSQL
Parsing IIS-logs to SQL
Concurrent client connections in C#
SkyDrive in 5 minutes, who would have guessed?
AnkhSVN
Different merge or diff tools with TFS
Make A Game
List the users connected to a MS Sql server
Telerik Installer – How it´s supposed to look
Entity Framework query sql
VS 2010 SP 1 Breaks SQL Server Management Studio Intellisense
A* algorithm
Pitfalls of threading – Always handle lost exceptions!
VSTO ShapeRange Error
VSTO to VBA and Back Again
WebClient service stuck in Stopping
XBAP Security Error
Skype is Microsoft
Website installation failed – The installer was interrupted before Application could be installed
VSTO-project Office target version
Yuml
Unique names for test output files
How to use the TestContext class and the currently running test name to generate unique names for test output files for better reusability.
Copy pure text from WPF DocumentViewer XPS
How to configure the wpf DocumentViewer to allow copying from xps to the clipboard by using command bindings and the Clipboard class.
Test framework and CodeCoverage plugin failure
Opening XPS-files
JustDecompile vs DotPeek
Abusing SEO
Byte order mark
Subclass type usage
Choose columns to link with SharePoint 2007
ConfigurationSections, validators and default values
WSSF CLS-compliant warning
Check if enumerable is empty?
Opening named configuration files in C#
Zipping folders with FastZip
Deleting the .suo
dotPeek
Textblocks and implicit labels in WPF
Stumbling in Linq
Visual Studio 2010 SP 1 Brittle?