Basic Flask API on Elastic Beanstalk (AWS)
This post is just to document what worked for me to get a very basic implementation of a Flask API up and running with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk. For this I was using Flask version...
View ArticleExcel Function Quick Reference
Just want to document some of the Excel functions I end up using fairly frequently, but can be time consuming to reproduce. Pull Content from Another Sheet by Matching Top Row and Left Column Basic...
View ArticleMySQL Index Merge Optimization
I was recently tasked with optimizing a table for a rather tricky query. A typical query went something like this: SELECT `ID` FROM `ExistingUsers` WHERE `EntryType` = 'NEW' AND `Version` =...
View ArticleExcel SUMPRODUCT Function – Possible Uses
SUMPRODUCT is a very useful and flexible function in Excel, but it also has one of the trickier syntaxes to get right. I use this function often, and concise reference articles have been hard to find....
View ArticleChrome Extension – Communicating Between background.js and popup.js
Recently I was fooling around with Chrome Extension development, mostly just to satisfy my curiosity about how it worked. This article will show a basic template that illustrates one method of...
View ArticleHow to Track Scheduled MySQL Events
A couple years ago I started delving into MySQL Events as a clean way to do some cronjob like tasks (data aggregation, preprocessing, etc). Overall I’ve been pleased with their performance. However,...
View ArticleAjax with Django
This doc is a work in progress… Using Django version: 1.6.2 Basic Ajax Example views.py from django.shortcuts import render def basicajax(request): context = {} # Draw initial page if request.method ==...
View ArticleDjango website on AWS – Elastic Beanstalk – Using Windows 7
This article is a work in progress… The Amazon Web Services (AWS) website has instructions for doing this, but they are mostly tailored to doing it on a Linux machine. Here’s how to do it on Windows 7....
View ArticleHow to Debug Django
Django has some very useful error pages built in that can help with a lot of debugging. Unfortunately sometimes you need to dig into the code a little more at run time to track down errors, etc. Here...
View ArticleAjax with Django REST and Angular.js
It took me a while to get Ajax calls working with Angular and Django REST. This is what finally got it done. NOTE: The implementation below is not really REST. It is more intended to illustrate some...
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