An introduction to Web scraping using Python 3

In this article I will demonstrate how easy it is to perform basic text Web scraping using Python and just a few lines of code. The example have been developed and tested using Python  3.5.2. The first step is to see if you have the following third party libraries already installed; Requests and Beautiful Soup […]

Learn C# in One Day and Learn It Well – Review

I have been learning C# and the .NET framework for a while now and have been working my way through several books; The C# Programming Yellow Book, The C# Player’s Guide (2nd Edition) and C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 Framework All of these books have helped me to varying degrees to get comfortable in Object Oriented programming, […]

Contributing to an Open Source Project

I have been interested in Git, the distributed version control software since reading the first edition of Scott Chacon’s Git book way back in 2010. However outside of my own projects, my real world experience of using Git is relatively limited and it’s one of the skills I never seem to get around to improving on. To change […]