WordPress automatically replaces ‐‐ with the long dash –. But for technical text, you often need the double minus symbol, e.g., when writing scripts and command line flags such as –option. 💬 How to prevent WordPress from replacing the double hyphen (minus) with the long dash? Here’s the surprisingly simple fix: You can simply edit … Read more
Given an HTML table (code) in a file or at a given URL. First, load all HTML tables into the Python script by calling Pandas’ pd.read_html() passing the URL of the HTML document. The result is a list of DataFrames, one per HTML table in the document. Second, convert any specific DataFrame to a CSV … Read more
The Pandas read_html() function is an easy way to convert an HTML table (e.g., stored at a given URL) to a Pandas DataFrame. You pass a location string or path to it and it returns a list of DataFrames, each representing one table from the location path or URL. The following code, for example, reads … Read more
Story: This series of articles assume you work in the IT Department of Mason Books. The Owner asks you to scrape the website of a competitor. He would like this information to gain insight into his pricing structure. 💡 Note: Before continuing, we recommend you possess, at minimum, a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and … Read more
What is an eCommerce Developer? eCommerce website developers create websites for online businesses on which customers can purchase electronic or physical goods. eCommerce developers are web developers with a special focus on the infrastructure technology around payments, product shipping, taxing, reporting, and tracking & increasing conversion. What eCommerce Frameworks do eCommerce Developers Use? These are … Read more
What is an eLearning Developer? The eLearning developer is responsible for the technical implementation and deployment of the learning material created by, for example, an instructional designer or teacher. This involves activities such as setting up an eLearning system or course management system, creating code for interactive exercises or quizzes, and taking care of the … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What is a UI/UX Developer? As a UI/UX developer, you’re responsible for the technical implementation of the user interfaces (UI) of software applications (web, mobile, or desktop). You’ll also optimize the user experience (UX) from joining for the first time to … Read more
👩⚖️ Disclaimer: I’m a coder, not a legal advisor or professional. In this article, I merely present my own judgment and research on the topic. But this is not legal advice! Legal Opinion 1: Web Scraping is Legal [Apify] “Web scraping is legal if you scrape data publicly available on the internet. But you should … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Full-Stack Web Developer? A full-stack web developer works both with back-end and front-end web technologies. Full-stack developers have skills in all those fields so they often take crucial roles in overseeing the technical implementation of large web projects. … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is a Front-end Web Developer? A web developer is a programmer who specializes in the development of websites or applications viewed on web browsers, mobile devices, and large desktop screens that are transported over private or public networks such as … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Ajax? Let’s have a look at the definition (source) — highlights and slight stylistic modifications by me: The term Ajax is an abbreviation of “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML“. As the name suggests, it’s a set of JavaScript functionality to … Read more
Before we learn about the money, let’s get this question out of the way: What Is Lit? Let’s have a look at the definition from the official Lit website: “Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components. Every Lit component is a standard web component. Web components have the superpower of interoperability: … Read more