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With 2019 just around the corner, chances are good that you are planning for the year ahead and putting together the best marketing strategies that will take your Fintech brand to the next level. In one of the most competitive and cut-throat industries, getting your fintech marketing just right is key if you want to […]
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Anyone will agree that technology is revolutionizing the way businesses are offering their products and/or services. And this happens on a constant basis regardless of the business’ size. From coffee shops using sophisticated point-of-sale systems to process orders to boutique hotels using guest service management software to manage guest-related tasks, there is an edge to […]
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Everybody who wants to know how to increase engagement on Instagram, should first be well-versed with the meaning of engagement on an Instagram account. Engagement on Instagram means any interaction by your users with any of your posts, be it in the form of likes or comments. Engagement can also include views on Instagram Stories, […]
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Sewing the Leading Edge [LE] together… Sew down the seam line [1]. Then sew a second line 3 mm away from the first line [2]. Then fold over the seam and sew again, between the first two lines [3]. This reduces the overall seam size, and gives the thrid sew line 4 layers of cloth […]
Continue ReadingAll of the photos are in the gallery, but the ‘top ten’ pages are very popular, so here are the links: My top ten photos. There is also a tour of the 10 photo’s with the highest votes. The kiting gallery, pictures of us using kites to jump up, over or off things. Nearly all the photo’s on this site […]
Continue ReadingTags: Python, memory leak, leek, object, garbage collection, garbage collector, __del__, inspect, gc, DEBUG_LEAK I have a nasty memory leak in my Python script which I can’t find. For some random projects my script gobbles up 2gig of memory then quietly dies. Here is my first attempt at cobbling together a leak detector: import gc import inspect def dump_garbage(): […]
Continue ReadingSo, I was looking for a picture of a tree and found some nice pictures of fractal trees. That, I thought, would be interesting to code. Here are some of the results. This was coded in C#, each element ( a trunk/branch/twig ) is a fractal, a twig with a length < 3 aborts the […]
Continue ReadingI had a problem with some URLs that we found on someones website. They looked like this: <a href=”http://example.com/../../../path/page.html”>, here is the same link: test. Notice that when you mouse over it, Firefox normalizes the URL so it looks correct. Using urlparse in Python: print urlparse.urljoin( ‘http://site.com/’, ‘/path/../path/.././path/./’ ) ‘http://site.com/path/../path/.././path/./’ How, poopy. So, we need to do better than that. The os module […]
Continue ReadingI like Puzzle, the new music from Biffy Clyro. I really like it. But what the feck does Biffy Clyro mean? They are from Scotland, so I thought maybe it was where they came from. Nope. I did a lot of searches but could find nowt. Eventually I took Trays advice and just asked google, […]
Continue ReadingWow! Glass Shark at the Blue Bar on Saturday was freekin amazin. The band is made up of three dudes, one on lead guitar, on drummer and one bass. But for three guys they make a hell of a lot of noise . I like. I like a lot. They mostly played their own songs, but they also did […]
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