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So I was writing an article on screen scraping and one of the things that came up is "How do you mitigate against screen scraping?" I think this is actually in interesting question, which brought up the idea of a side project that maybe someone else has time for.

The idea is that to prevent screen scraping, the page being scraped must be mutated as to break a scraper. To do that, you could do things like alter selectors of css resources and html (for instance, changing all ids of "signupButton" to "sarah-goldfarb") or change the structure of the page. Maybe it also mutates the structure of the DOM.

A small node proxy that does this around streams would be particularly cool.

Things you're likely to learn:

1. More about CSS selector precedence. Which selectors can you easily mutate? Which are harder? Are there examples of selectors which you can't mutate?
2. What can XPath do? XPath is a mechanism for querying tree structures (notably XML). If you were g

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April 11 -- Day 1

• 10:50 -- Computer Science fundamentals for self-taught programmers (my talk)
• 11:30: Creating bomb-proof data importers
• 12:10:
• 1:40/1:55: The Birth & Death of Javascript -- Gary is a fantastic speaker.
• 2:35:
• 3:15: Getting Started with SaltStack OR What is Async
• 4:15/4:30: Maybe Castle Anthrax. Maybe Distributed Computing.
• 5:10: Python + Geographic Data = BFFs (Support for fellow Portlanders!)

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Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion.

From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of

my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to

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#!/bin/bash
for i in `git stash list --format="%gd"`; do
  git stash show -p $i | grep -H --label="$i" "$1"
done

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from pyquery import PyQuery
import requests
from random import choice

url = 'http://www.johnsmarketplace.com/Kegs/'

query = 'td table tr'


def main():

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def do_sprintly_automated_deploy(role, current_build, build_number):
    """
    Find what tickets were in this deploy and mark them as deployed in Sprintly.
    """

    if not settings.GITHUB_PERSONAL_TOKEN or not settings.SPRINTLY_API_KEY \
        or not settings.SPRINTLY_EMAIL:

        print 'Missing required settings for automated deploy.'
        return

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Code Review

A guide for reviewing code and having your code reviewed.

Peer code reviews are the single biggest thing you can do to improve your code - Jeff Atwood

Purpose

Code review is an important part of a team's development process. It helps to:

• disseminate knowledge about the codebase/technology/techniques across teams
• increase awareness of the features being developed

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