Ferry Boender
Programmer, DevOpper, Open Source enthusiast.
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Blocking VoilaBot
There’s a web-crawler out there called VoilaBot, which is hammering my site with needless crawls and which appears to ignore robots.txt files completely. Apparently it’s a crawler for a french portal/search engine. If you need to block this bot from your site, there are two things you can do: Firewall If you’ve got a firewall […]
Dependency resolving algorithm
Here’s a little explanation of a possible dependency resolution algorithm. I’ve made this as basic as possible, so it’s easy to understand. If you’re at home in (graph) algorithms, this post is probably not of much interest to you. Premise Suppose we have five objects which all depend on some of the other objects. The […]
Rant: Dicts that are not dicts
There’s something I have to get off my chest. I HATE it when things in Python pretend to be something they are not. I often use IPython to introspect things so I know how to use them. Lately, I’ve been running into more and more libraries which return things that pretend to be one thing, […]
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