• Debugging scrapy memory leaks

    The only reason I perceive that you will read this is cause you have issues with a Scrapy spider leaking memory. For others I would say, you can bookmark it for when your Scrapy spider starts leaking memory.

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  • Scrapy is finally 1.0 !!!

    When I started using Scrapy I was totally blown away by how easily you could write scrapers and start scraping within minutes. You might be familiar with Scrapy v0.24 if you have started scraping recently just like me. But what is great about this version is that over 7 years of testing later, Pablo and his team have finally moved to their first production release.

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  • Convert style tags to inline css for emails

    While working on some email templates last week I had a nightmare styling HTML for different email clients. GMail definitely doesn’t allow <style> tags in their email markups. The safest best was to include inline style attributes which renders the templates correctly for all email clients.

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  • Find free WiFi in NYC

    Creating side projects is tough, especially when you keep saying to yourself that you are short on time. Today I would like to present to you a side project that I have been working on for the last couple of days.

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  • Deploy your project with a git push on your ...

    As much as you like using github for your public repositories you need a way to host your codebase where you deploy your project sometimes.

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