“Continuous deployment (CD) is a software engineering approach in which software functionalities are delivered frequently and through automated deployments.” ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_deployment In this article I’ll cover the process and the actual Yaml file to automate your deployment from your development laptop to Webserver simply by pushing a commit to GitHub. Deploy simply by committing to […]
This article will cover the full process to document your code with Sphinx to GitHub pages via GitHub-actions in 2 main sections : Clone the repo used in this article : https://github.com/RGGH/jubilant-lamp View the Sphinx generated documentation from this project here on GitHub pages: https://rggh.github.io/jubilant-lamp/ What is Sphinx? “Sphinx is a documentation generator written and […]
Enum, short for “enumerate” is a robust way for us to enforce a strict set of options in Python. For example a fixed choice of Aeroplane Manufacturers and each choice manufacturers matches a model name. Let’s look at the example below and see we can do this can be done in practice. Example Code Pass […]
Let’s look at how to create complete documentation for your entire Python project using Sphinx Here is a guide to how to document a very small project, with 2 directories “src” and “docs” where all the source code is in “src” and the Sphinx specific files go inside “docs”. You’ll be able to view each […]
A Python generator is a “lazy Iterator” – a function that is a memory efficient way of providing an object to loop through We can define a Python generator function just like a normal function. This article will show some simple examples to illustrate how easy they are to use and how effective they can […]
Did the code from ChatGPT compile straight away? No. Keep reading to see what I had to fix… The Cargo file is the main reason why it didn’t compile, and interestingly the screenshot here uses the Coinbase API, but an earlier question to ChatGPT replied with code using CoinGecko. Each time the issues were with […]
If you have any interest computer science or own any money at all then learning about Bitcoin is time well spent. The best training resource that you can start with is the “Saylor Academy : Bitcoin for developers“ The video below was first broadcast 8th March 2023 and just after halfway through has a great […]
One of the frustrations with learning from some text books is that they set vague exercises at the end of a chapter without being explicit in the nature of the task and therefore no solution either…. For example “Write a function to convert text to ascii” Codewars Replace With Alphabet Position I’ve started to use […]