RSS is a way to distribute content on your website or meta-tag assets and distribute them to various platforms like Apple News, iTunes, Flipboard, and scores of other similar platforms. Owing to its support to perform Big-Data, Natural Language Processing, and simplicity Python has emerged as a popular programming language. This tutorial helps you build a RSS Parser using Python. Installing FeedParser Before going any further into coding system, please ensure you have Python

In one of the recent apps, I had to figure out a way to load images asynchronously from Firebase Storage. While there are a few components out there most of them had a quirk or two. After trying them, I decided to build what worked for me. While it may not be perfect, it provides a base for others to build upon. So sharing it here. Before Getting Started I use the React-Native-Firebase from Invertase. It is one of the best libraries out there to simplify firebase integration.

In the last tutorial, we learned about how to build a Python based RSS Parser. Continuing that conversation and building on that tutorial, let’s now look at parsing Namespaces and Namespace specific elements. Getting Ready For the purpose of this tutorial, we will use the WhizRssAggregator.py file that we created in the previous tutorial. Parsing Namespaces Let’s extend the RSS Aggregator file below. import feedparser class WhizRssAggregator(): feedurl = "" def __init__(sel

Amongst, other things, Django as a powerful framework allows you to directly map your object-oriented models to a database table structures and in doing so also builds relationships in the backend. A big part of object-oriented programming is Inheritance and the tutorial below demonstrates how to create 1:1 relationship between models. Basic Background Let’s assume that you are creating a site that has a base model called content that stores basic aspects of a content like ti

Django is a powerful python framework to rapidly create apps. This post provides you with a buildpack that will help you accelerate the Django framework installation on cloudfoundry. This post assumes the following: You have created an app using the cf tools You have created a postgres database service using the cf tools You have bound the app and the postgres database service. After you create your Django project, using the Terminal on Mac (or) a command prompt on your OS, n

Ever wondered if it possible to prevent a hyperlink from executing (i.e.) launch a new web page, a new window, display a HTML page, or simply prevent anything from happening when a link is clicked? It is possible using CSS3. All you have to do is add the following CSS3 declaration for the anchor <a> tag. a { pointer-events: none; cursor:default; } This prevents any link from being executed. If there are pre-defined classes, styles then you can always add the !important to the

The traditional HTML4/CSS/JavaScript were not conducive to laying out webpages into columns. Converting content to columns in webpages was traditionally accomplished using the table, tr, td tags or by combining div, span, and other tags in the context of a predefined webpage layout logic. This worked well until we started seeing emergence of laptops with different aspect ratios, smartphones with different screen resolutions, tablets with different screen resolutions, and the

The following steps are intended to let you create your own RSS Reader using Swift. Create a class called RssItem The RssItem is a class and each of the Rss XML attribute is a property of the class and save it as RssItem.swift. class RssItem : NSObject { var title:String = ""; var link:String = ""; var commentslink:String = ""; var pubdate:String = ""; var creator:String = ""; var categories:AnyObject = NSMutableArray(); var images:AnyObject = NSMutableArray(); var guid:Stri