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Build your own web scraper and learn all about web scraping with Beautiful Soup Overview Learn about the features of Beautiful Soup with Python Extract information from Google's home page Understand how to use a simple method to extract information from websites using Beautiful Soup and the Python urllib2 module Master searching, navigation, content modification, encoding, and output methods quickly and efficiently Try out the example code and get to grips with Beautiful Soup easily In Detail Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extr...

80 hands-on recipes to create, integrate, and extend dynamic and interactive charts in your web projects Overview Create amazing interactive charts that update in realtime Make charts that work wherever you go: phone or desktop; online or offline Learn how to extend, and enhance Highcharts to design and develop charts easily Learn how you can integrate charts into just about any project for analyzing statistical data In Detail Highcharts is a JavaScript library that enables web developers to create a wide range of different, highly customized charts. Highcharts easily integrates with existing JavaScript frameworks and is simple enough to make a column chart in a few lines of code, but flexible enough to handle more complex charting scenarios such a...

Technology today is growing rapidly, with all sorts of cool gadgets, applications, and games made thanks to the rise of computer programming. The Raspberry Pi is a crafty device that has promoted the teaching of basic computer science in schools, catching the attention of both young and old. Although learning to program offers a unique set of skills that allows you to explore your creative side, it has its own challenges, which may mean you will need a helping hand.This handy guide will launch you into the world of computer programming by showing you how to build your own amazing applications. Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids contains several awesome projects for you to get hands-on with, including creating your own games, crafting your own simple elec...

Over 80 task-based recipes to store, organize, manipulate, and analyze spatial data in a PostGIS database Overview Integrate PostGIS with web frameworks and implement OGC standards such as WMS and WFS using MapServer and GeoServer Convert 2D and 3D vector data, raster data, and routing data into usable forms Visualize data from the PostGIS database using a desktop GIS program such as QGIS and OpenJUMP Easy-to-use recipes with advanced analyses of spatial data and practical applications In Detail PostGIS is a spatial database that integrates advanced storage and analysis of vector and raster data, and is remarkably flexible and powerful. PostGIS provides support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database and is currently one...

Over 125 recipes that enable you to configure, administer, and troubleshoot a XenApp infrastructure for effective application virtualization Overview Create installation scripts for Citrix XenApp, License Servers, Web Interface, and StoreFront Use PowerShell scripts to configure and administer the XenApp's infrastructure components Discover Citrix and community written tools to maintain a Citrix XenApp infrastructure In Detail In the age of cybernation, Citrix XenApp has emerged as a prolific application virtualization product. This powerful solution enables users or an enterprise to have centrally hosted and managed applications on corporate servers which can be accessed remotely from a wide range of computer and mobile devices. To deliver shared ...