Wikimedia has an API which lets you compare Wikipedia pages, and in some cases modify pages and information within the Wikimedia group. The main page for all Wikimedia API information is here: In this post I am most interested in the Wikipedia compare API, to show how you use it to see differences between versions… Read More »
A Simple Django Web App Django is a popular web framework for python. Like other web frameworks, the purpose of Django is to help you build websites without the challenge of building everything from scratch. The purpose of this post is to get a minimally, just about useful, app working rather than demonstrating all of… Read More »
The strategy pattern is all about being able to swap complex functionality in and out, without needing to change large amounts of code. This post summarises the strategy pattern in python. Formal, traditional design patterns are not found in python as often as in other languages such as C# or Java. It can still help… Read More »
This post works through a simple example of creating a GUI in python using Tkinter. The python tkinter example goes through some simple things that a GUI would need to do such as creating new windows, text input, and labels. This isn’t a tutorial as such, but instead I’ve tried to pick out a few… Read More »
The command pattern bundles functionality into an object which can be passed around. This way the object can be executed when needed as a well defined command. In a sense a ‘macro‘ is an implementation of the command pattern: it abstracts more complex functionality into a single command or series of commands. This post shows… Read More »