Sending e-mail through the internet is quite a trivial trick in many programming languages. Some time ago, I have shown how to send MS Excel range as an e-mail and how to send a mail through VBA, with HTML. As far …
Using SQL in Python reminded me of the “fun” I used to have in VBA MS Access, when I had to concatenate strings in VBA. Probably I was not the only one having “fun” and enjoying it, thus some good and …
Yup, that is true! 🙂 I was one of the 5 people to successfully create a web crawler, crawling web sites and writing the server of these in a database. The challenge was posted by HackBulgaria. Here is the task …
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Some time ago, I have built something like a primitive SQL language for C# here. Today, I have worked on a similar task, checking the powers of Sqlite3 with Python. This time it was not that primitive and the results were better …
Have you ever wondered on what servers the top 50 most visited Bulgarian sites run? That is definitely an interesting question, if you are Bulgarian IT admin and you have pretty much free time 🙂 Anyway, as far as I am …
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Who follows you? Who follows your followers? And who follows the followers of your followers? And what about the next level? These are pretty interesting question actually. With easy answers, if you are interested only in GitHub. The GitHub team have provided …
This week I have read the book Web Coding Bible, kindly provided to me by Mr. Chong Lip Phang for a review 🙂 If you want to have your book reviewed by me, mail me at review[at]vitoshacademy[dot]com. The book consists …
Yup! That is what we are gonna do – Setup jQuery project with node.js and server from scratch in Ubuntu. There are plenty of ways to do it in the internet. Setting up a jQuery project is something, that should be …
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Some time ago, like a year or so, I have written an article for ABC analysis for linguists for C#. Today, I have decided to do it for Python, just for fun and to check whether the 80/20 rule is valid. …
Packt Publishing, one of the editorial houses I am working closely with, has recently published a video series ” Learning MongoDB”, which shows how to use MongoDB for ultra-fast, fault tolerant management of big data, including advanced data analysis. You …
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Some time ago, I was asked to review an Excel VBA video course. As far as VBA is my first language, I am always interested to see what new is in the market 🙂 The course is available here: So, let’s …
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initially, the idea of the article was to write four lines of code, doing the following 2 tasks: uploading data to a given file getting JSON data from file and using it in an application However, as soon as I started, I …
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In the current article, I will show you how to build functions for built-in objects in JavaScript. The way I know is using a prototype. Thus, I will create functions, giving us the last n values of an array or returning a capitalization …
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JSON is somehow powerful. With Node JS and JSON you may build almost anything you can think of (if you have unlimited time and coffee/beer). How about building a small console application with the following options: Yesterday, I started to …
Python’s lists are powerful. Especially, if you come from the VBA world its like switching to a new car after years of using the old red Ikarus. Thus, I have decided to write a small article about them, just to be …
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If you want to build a magic square, check this article, the python code is at the bottom – How to build a magic square A magic square is an arrangement of the numbers from 1 to N^2 (N-squared) in …
Some time ago I have started to learn Python. Today, I will present a way to solve the problem “Reduce file path”. The problem is the following – you are given a string and you should reduce it to a meaningful …
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This week I have started to study Python a little more into detail in the courses of HackBulgaria. After end of the second day, the last problem was considered worthy for blogging, as far as it took me about an …
In the current article, I will present a few useful commands, for the Linux(Ubuntu) terminal. The article is going to be updated constatly with new entries:) Here they come: General Python Related Java Script and Git related
Well, most probably the answer depends on the query language 🙂 Here is the task: Problem 3 – A query language over a CSV file A CSV files (comma separated values) can be represented as a table. For example this …
In the current article, I will show how to resolve with VBA an entry exam for programming in HackBulgaria. The problems could be resolved in any language and I will use VBA for the first two in this article. The idea …
In the current article, I will show how to resolve with VBA an entry exam for programming in HackBulgaria. The problems could be resolved in any language and I will use VBA for this last task. The program is actually the …
Imagine you are the owner of a web site with a lot of comments (not like this one, where noone comments due to the fact that he should do it with his Facebook account 🙂 ). In this site there …
Some time ago I was working over an Excel file, making it look like a cool application. As far as I was getting paid for it, it had to look really outstanding 🙂 In VBA, there is a way to make your Excel …
Throwing dices used to be a way to gamble. Nowadays, with TexasHoldEm all over the internet, this game is forgotten 🙂 Probably for good. Anyway, at the beginning of statistics every student is required to resolve some problems, containing dice, cards or …
Today I was working with the Excel color styles and I tought that they are actually pretty well made. But for some reason I wanted to have a reverse of the styles and I did not want to waste time to define a …
This weekend I have managed to finish the online version of the book “The Python Workbook”, kindly provided to me by Springer. The book provides you with 174 exercises, which can make you an advanced beginner (if this term exists) …
I was searching for a way to animate a picture in the C# console and I managed to find something quite good here. Then it was quite easy, to do the animation – the key was in the adding of the line …
In the current article, I will show how to resolve with VBA an entry exam for programming in HackBulgaria. The problems could be resolved in any language and I will use VBA for this last task. The program is actually the …
In the current article, I will present the way to calculate the number of chars in a string with VBA. The inspiration came from the entry exam forHackBulgaria Programming 101v3. The tasks were given some months ago, so I assume it …