The scraping series will not get completed without discussing Scrapy. In this post I am going to write a web crawler that will scrape data from OLX's Electronics & Appliances' items. Before I get into the code, how about having a brief intro of Scrap...

If you are like me, every once in a while you write a useful python utility and want to share it with your colleagues. The best way to do this is to make a package: it easy to install and saves from copy-pasting. (more…)

turbo_seti - turboSETI -- python based SETI search algorithm. (more…)

There have been many Python libraries developed for interactive with the Hadoop File System, HDFS, via its WebHDFS gateway as well as its native Protocol Buffers-based RPC interface. I'll give you an overview of what's out there and show some engineering ...

What does it take to become a software engineer for a hedge fund? Is there any point in teaching yourself how to code? Do you need to go to university?