Category Archives: GUIDES

Feb 1 2012

GUIDE: Your first Android application using Phone Gap

The video contains a complete guide on how to create your first Android application, starting from installing Android tools on Eclipse till generating the APK that can be directly installed on your Android Machine.

In addition to the steps in the official tutorial on Phone Gap site. This video covers the following:

How to avoid getting timeout when running the emulator
How to create splash screen
How to customize the application icons

For the text  that you need to include in the project, please refer to  the official tutorial on Phone Gap site.

Part 1

Part 2

 

Feb 13 2011

GUIDE: Scrape multi-pages content with Scrapy

Scrapy is really amazing. It is a very handy framework for scraping. In this guide, I will illustrate how to create a spider to extract multi-pages content.  I assume that you already know Scrapy and you’ve covered the official tutorial.

I also assume that you’re familiar with XPath, if not please get your self familiar with it on w3schools site.

There are multiple ways to do this, however I found using a CrawlSpider is the fastest way to do this. CrawlSpider keeps following links based on a certain rules.   In this guide I will cover the spider part only. I believe defining the item is very straight forward. Continue reading →

Jan 21 2011

GUIDE: Sphinx with Django

The purpose of this tutorial is to integrate Django-Sphinx inside your Django application to make use of the powerful Sphinx search engine.

This guide assumes the following:

  • Python already installed
  • Linux Ubuntu operating system
  • Django already installed
  • Eclipse — with Pydev — is the IDE
  • You already have Djnago application to integrate Djnago-Sphinx with
  • The Command Console is already opened!
  • MySQL installed Continue reading →
May 22 2010

GUIDE: setting up django on Eclipse on Kubuntu 10.04

To set up django on Eclipse on Kubuntu 10.04, perform the following steps

  1. Install django: installing django is very staright forward and details can be found here
  2. Install Eclipse: Kubuntu is shipped with KPackageKit as package manager, unfortunately, if you tried to install Eclipse using KPackageKit installation of the PyDev (Django Add on for eclipse) will fail. You will keep getting the following error: Continue reading →