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Now the Heroku-hosted LibraryHippo can perform periodic tasks, send e-mails, and scrape the Waterloo Public Library's website. All it needs is a datastore to tie these concepts together into a decoupled "push card status to patrons" pipeline.

LibraryHippo 2020 - Scraping Library Websites

2020-04-09 on flask, heroku, libraryhippo, requests

LibraryHippo 2020 - Running Scheduled Tasks on Heroku

2020-03-19 on cron, flask, heroku, libraryhippo

LibraryHippo 2020 - Sending Email from Heroku

2020-03-05 on email, flask, heroku, libraryhippo

LibraryHippo 2020 - A Bare-bones Flask App

2020-02-20 on flask, heroku, libraryhippo

LibraryHippo 2020 - Motivation and Plan

2020-02-06 on appengine, flask, heroku, libraryhippo

Automatically Sync nupkg and project.json Dependencies

2017-02-21 on .net

Select May Not be Broken, But it's Bent

2015-10-05 on .net

App Engine + External Authentication: Exposing Handlers to Cron, Tasks, and Admins

2015-01-05 on appengine

Hasty Impressions: flake8

2014-09-15 on flake8, HastyImpressions, python

Making a Duck-Dog using FakeItEasy's CallsBaseMethod(s)

2014-08-29 on .net, fakeiteasy

Automatically Printing Rake (or other Ruby) Variables

2014-06-05 on local_variables, rake, ruby

Debugging a Pickle of a Stack Overflow on Google App Engine

2014-05-05 on appengine, libraryhippo, pickle, python

User-Sourced Calendar Feeds for Waterloo Yard Waste Pickup

2014-04-16 on diversions, icalendar, syndication, waterloo

Limit FakeItEasy extension scanning with a bootstrapper

2014-03-06 on fakeiteasy

Better formatter auto-discovery in FakeItEasy 1.13.0

2013-07-08 on .net, fakeiteasy, nancy

Watch your spaces - HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error

2013-07-02 on iis

Fixated on Fixie - the birth of a new unit test runner

2013-06-24 on fixie, testing

FakeItEasy's argument formatter auto-discovery - boon and inconvenience

2013-06-17

ReportGenerator indexing your whole drive? Check the case of your fullPaths

2012-12-07 on coverage, OpenCover, ReportGenerator

Moving LibraryHippo to Python 2.7 - OpenID edition

2012-03-12 on appengine, myopenid, openid, python, python27, stackexchange

How App Engines restrictions caused me to recreate LibraryHippo as a new application so we could support Python 2.7.

Best all-around .NET coverage tool - OpenCover

2011-12-15 on .NET, coverage, OpenCover

Hasty Impressions: NCover

2011-11-09 on .NET, coverage, HastyImpressions, IIS, Isolator, NCover, Testing, TypeMock

Hasty Impressions: OpenCover

2011-08-15 on .NET, coverage, HastyImpressions, Isolator, OpenCover, Testing, TypeMock

Hasty Impressions: PartCover

2011-08-05 on .NET, coverage, HastyImpressions, OpenCover, PartCover, Testing

Hasty Impressions: dotCover 1.1

2011-07-29 on .NET, coverage, dotCover, HastyImpressions, IIS, Isolator, MightyMoose, Testing, TypeMock

Can you cover me? Looking for a .NET coverage tool

2011-07-18 on .NET, coverage, IIS, Isolator, Testing, TypeMock

Prime Time Programming, Part 2

2011-05-09 on Development, Primes, Profiling, ProjectEuler, Python

Prime Time Programming, Part 1

2011-04-25 on Development, Primes, Profiling, ProjectEuler, Python

How to completely disable Autofac components

2011-02-27 on .NET, Autofac, Development

Growing an MVVM Framework in 2003, part V—Reflections and Regrets

2011-02-15 on .NET, Development, Frameworks, MVVM

BBC Top 100 Books

2010-12-31 on Books, Meme

Office Adventure: Hard Drive Shuffle

2010-12-09 on diversions

Growing an MVVM Framework in 2003, part IV—Unit Tests

2010-11-30 on .NET, Frameworks, MVVM, Testing

Growing an MVVM Framework in 2003, part III—Properties Redux

2010-11-21 on Development, Frameworks, MVVM

AutoTest.Net updated - now (and then) notices broken builds

2010-11-14 on .NET, AutoTest.Net, Testing

Hasty impressions: Continuous testing using AutoTest.NET

2010-11-12 on .NET, AutoTest.Net, HastyImpressions, Testing

Growing an MVVM Framework in 2003, part II—Properties

2010-11-10 on Development, Frameworks, MVVM

An unanticipated benefit of using the Chrome Extension Gallery

2010-11-06 on ChromeExtensions, Development

Growing an MVVM Framework in 2003, part I—Event Handlers

2010-10-29 on Development, Frameworks, MVVM

Animating Google Chrome Extension Page Action Icons

2010-08-08 on AnimatedGIFs, ChromeExtensions, Development, JavaScript, setTimeout

Library Lookup - find books in your library

2010-07-25 on LibraryLookup

libraryhippo.com lives

2010-07-13 on LibraryHippo, Profligateness

Using XSL to arbitrarily order strings - lessons from Professor Layton

2010-07-02 on Development, Sorting, XSLT

Auto-deploying TypeMock Isolator Without Trashing the Installation

2010-06-06 on Isolator, MSBuild, Testing, TypeMock

When Fields are Initialized, or "Lies Reflector Told Me"

2010-05-22 on .NET, C#, Development, Reflector

Quickly make editable diagrams with yUML

2010-05-01 on Development, PNG, yUML

Watch, even if you're not building an MVVM App

2010-04-02 on Coroutines, Development, Frameworks, MVVM

IE binds to id attributes, or “How I learned to love var”

2010-03-07 on Ajax, Development, IE, JavaScript, LibraryHippo

Automated Testing using App Engine Service APIs (and a Memcaching Memoizer)

2010-02-20 on AppEngine, Decorators, Gael, LibraryHippo, Memcache, Python, Testing

A first look at Appstats - where's my time spent?

2010-02-12 on AppEngine, Appstats, Development, LibraryHippo, Python

Waiting pays off again - Google App Engine gets Datastore retries

2010-02-10 on AppEngine, Development

Using Subversion to Evangelize PowerShell

2010-02-07 on Development, PowerShell, Subversion

expand your scope - you can dot-source more than just files

2010-01-29 on Development, PowerShell

Brandon Sanderson - Good author and class act

2010-01-24 on Books

Acronyms of the Day: VOMIT and BARF

2010-01-19 on diversions, words

Cookies, Redirects, and Transcripts - Supercharging urlfetch

2010-01-17 on AppEngine, Development, LibraryHippo, Python

New Year's Python Meme

2010-01-09 on Development, Meme, Python

Meet LibraryHippo

2010-01-08 on LibraryHippo