I needed to convert a Unix Timestamp, which for some inexplicit reason was being returned as a String by an API I was using and this is the super foolish function I ended up with. I am not going to shame the API Provider for returning a timestamp as a String đ func createDateTime(timestamp: String) […]
For an app that I was writing I needed an easy function to scale an image to a specific width, the function below will accomplish this: func scaleImageWidth(sourceImage:UIImage, scaledToWidth: CGFloat) -> UIImage { let oldWidth = sourceImage.size.width let scaleFactor = scaledToWidth / oldWidth let newHeight = sourceImage.size.height * scaleFactor let newWidth = oldWidth * scaleFactor […]
I have a few days off and was having a play with creating a very simple app. The app basically allows you to take a photo, add a description and saves all of it to Core Data. Unfortunately Core Data cannot save images the way they are, so you first need to convert them to […]
I was working on an API response, which provided data in a custom XML markup within the string, which was returned. I wanted to simply extract the âlinkTermâ. The snippet I got looked like this: Online-Zugang Now surely there will be more elegant ways of doing it, but I felt that I wouldnât be guaranteed […]
Yesterday I was working on a small PHP script in which an API sends âxmlâ within the response. That XML is supposed to make handling the data easier, but to be fair I just didnât need it. This is the snippet that the API returned Krugman, Paul R. At first I tried to simply use […]
This will sound very boring to anyone not involved with Library data, but pymarc totally blew my mind the other day. The library â available from https://pypi.org/project/pymarc/ or via pip install pymarc allows super simple processing of MARC data. My personal need was to quickly and efficiently convert records from MARCXML to MARC21. To do that you obviously […]
If you ever need to list only directories that are within a directory, you can use ls -d */ â very simple and very efficient⊠just like we like it đ
Writing a web scraper with python is easy, if you allow yourself a little help by two beautiful libraries BeautifulSoup Requests import sys, requests from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup # we want UTF8 reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding(‘utf8’) #lets define the URLs we will use to scrape url = ‘https://www.somepageortheother.nl/bladeren’ # let’s scrape the first URL and get all […]
Do you need to install pip on macOS? Easy, simply do the following sudo easy_install pip Â
Did you know that Dutch uses the following list of special (diacritic) characters? ĂĄĂ©ĂĂłĂșĂ ĂšĂ«ĂŻĂ¶ĂŒĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂĂ While I was working on a python script, I figured I could simply use pythonâs translate function to âtranslateâ them to their base character. It probably is the worst idea ever, but hey, it is what it is. According to tutorialspoint.com you […]