Screen Scraping with Beautiful Soup

Beautiful Soup is a Python library which is very handy for projects like screen-scraping.  Here’s a brief tutorial on how to scrape a list of the top 250 movies from IMBD.com and write them to a local text file: 1) Download Beautiful Soup Downloading Beautiful Soup is very easy. I’m currently using version 3 and […]

Learn Python the Hard Way

Over the last two years, I've spent considerable time learning several programming languages (PHP, C# and Ruby).  I started developing web applications with PHP, moved onto ASP.NET MVC using C# and then decided to experiment with Ruby on Rails.  I really loved the simplicity of Ruby and the 'magic' of Rails, but there was something […]

Using jQuery to Handle Checkboxes in ASP.NET MVC 3

Let’s say we have a simple to-do list application in ASP.NET MVC which displays a table of open tasks. And below that table, we display a list of completed tasks. The scenario is pretty straight forward – when a user clicks on an open task check box (to mark it complete) we need to update […]

Using jQuery with ASP.NET MVC 3

Using jQuery with ASP.NET MVC3 is pretty simple, especially now that it comes pre-installed with VS 2010. However, to set it up in a more scalable way with your project takes a little bit of work upfront but is definitely worth the extra effort in the long run. 1. Create a New Razor Helper Let’s […]