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Database Listeners

I'm starting to work on a system of checks to ensure the database is up to date. The way I see it, the checks will run on a fairly regular cron and generate 'issues' where Data doesn't line up. Users will also have a way of generating 'issues' so there's

Resources

I've created a 'Resources' repository on Github that I'll add to with time. You can find it at: https://github.com/hammygoonan/Resources

Dealing with dodgy markup

Lately I've been working on scraping various parliamentary websites to collect all the data I need for the YVIH API. I might write up how I've gone about this process in more detail in another post as there's plenty to discuss. However today's post is about dealing with dodgy markup.

Biophilia

Synchronicity Earth [http://www.synchronicityearth.org/] hosted London’s biggest wildlife party at the Natural History Museum, to raise funds for the most-needed science and conservation action, globally. They needed a website for the event and had contacted A New Mark [http://www.anewmark.com/] to design the website for

Building queries with Flask-SQLAlchemy

I guess it's probably about time I wrote about a bit of code on this little blog of mine. [SQLAlchemy](http://www.sqlalchemy.org/" title="SQLAlchemy) is a 'Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper'. As we know Flask is pretty barebones but there's plenty of extensions including one for

Flask vs Django

Deciding how you are going to put your website together is clearly an important decision. You generally need to make that decision up front and it will go on to haunt you for some time. As I've already mentioned I've decided to go with Python rather than PHP [blog.yourvoiceinhouse.

Python vs PHP

One of the reasons I thought I'd start this blog is because I'm using the Your Voice in House project to teach myself a few new tricks. As I'm sure any developer will tell you, having a little project is the best way to learn. I've been coding since the

dinnygoonan.com.au

dinnygoonan.com.au

Dinny's website (who I must admit is my father) was quite a few years old and looked it. It was cluttered with a lot of unnecessary text and was not mobile responsive when an increasing number of people were coming to the site on mobile devices. So we needed to