How to speed up your python web scraper by using multiprocessing

Using Pyshark in Python to create Promiscuous sniffer

In my last post, I wrote about using socket to write data from a client to a server into a text file. Today, I would like to see if I can sniff network traffic and write that into a tex file. The program must be in promiscuous mode, and…

Mocking Has A Weakness, Speccing Removes It

Mocking has several strengths, the main one being that it allows us to write tests…

Python Vs Julia Data Frames (Part 1)

Python, Julia or R?!

The basic question everyone tiptoeing to big data and data science ask, so I asked it too. For me the choice was narrowed down to Python and Julia since I relatively have some knowledge in them compared to a single…

Develop a Gmail autoresponder by using Python Selenium

Cache Me If You Can

Background and Explanation of a Django Caching Decorator

Hello World! I’d like to take a sentence or two of your time to firstly say that this is my first blog post ever. I hope through this blog I can explore ideas and concepts I…

Class-level variables in python

I just wrote a test and it caught a rather strange bug in my app: variables from one test affected other tests. Those were proper tests with proper class initialization (without any mocks). After some debugging I reduced ‘strange’ code to this:

How to Choose a Stack, Part 1: Python

We get the question a lot: “How do I know which programming language to learn first?” Since…