I like having this website (www.geektechstuff.com) hosted, but at times I also need a local website for testing whatever I’m looking at at the time (e.g. JavaScript). Previously I’ve just thrown a few lines of HTML down leaving a very sparse looking page that may (or may not) demonstrate the functions I’m looking at but … Continue reading Building A Testing Site (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
From the beginning of 2018 the Code Club I run has been going through the Web-Dev projects of Code Club projects with the attendees learning about HTML and CSS. Today they completed Module 1 and I’m proud of them. When I first did any web development it was at GCSE level (IT) and the teacher … Continue reading HTML / CSS Code Club Module 1
The Software Engineering & Agile module of my degree apprenticeship is coming to a close. With that in mind I think I can now share the coding I’ve done for the assignment especially as I needed to store it in a public repository (it’s on my GitHub at https://github.com/geektechdude/qa-se-webapp ) as part of the submissions … Continue reading An Asset WebApp (Flask / Python)
Last autumn (2020) I started a university degree apprenticeship to make up for that fact that I don’t currently have a degree and that I enjoy learning a lot more now than I did in my late teens/early 20s. One of the modules I’m undertaking is Web Application Development, which I’m going to expand on … Continue reading Personal Update, Django and MVC / MTV
I’ve had a Raspberry Pi camera module (v1) since spring 2015, but I’ve rarely put it to use. With some spare time on my hands I have decided to see if I can build a camera feed on a webpage. Before I continue I should point out that if you are interested in using the … Continue reading Raspberry Pi Live Camera Webpage Feed V1 (Python / Raspberry Pi)
Earlier on today I used Python (via Flask, some HTML and my Raspberry Pi) to help turn my Amazon Kindle into an eInk digital clock. This was cool and I was happy until I decided I wanted to do the same thing via Java and TomCat. For this project I am using: A Raspberry Pi … Continue reading Using a Kindle as an eInk Clock (Java)
A little bit of a mini weekend project today as I wanted to put my Amazon Kindle to use when I’m not reading, and decided that the Kindle’s “Experimental Browser” could be useful. How about an eInk digital clock… Note: I’m using Python for this project but similar results could be attained using JavaScript or Java … Continue reading Using a Kindle as an eInk Clock (Python)
Yesterday I introduced Selenium to my web scraping fun, see here: https://geektechstuff.com/2019/05/07/web-scraping-introducing-selenium-python/ if you missed it. Today I am going to use Selenium to interact with a website by: Opening a webpage Logging in Retrieving information from the page As much as I’ve enjoyed using Wikipedia in my previous examples (and if you too are … Continue reading Web Scraping: More Selenium & Ways To Interact With Websites (Python)
Web scraping can be a very useful way to extract data from websites but for anyone that has only viewed the web with a browser they can seem like magic. For example, here is http://www.geektechstuff.com viewed via a web browser: And here is http://www.geektechstuff.com when the HTML is read by Python: The majority of people … Continue reading Web Scraping Part 1 (Python)
Now that the temperature sensor is taking readings and tweeting them I want to look at exporting the results another way, and what better way than a web page. I have created guides on using a Raspberry Pi as various different types of web server; see: Node.JS Apache / WordPress Django So today I am … Continue reading Installing / Using Flask or Raspberry Pi IoT Project: Temperature Part 4 (Raspberry Pi / Python)
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