Devin Manno 
May 17, 2016The XML datatype in SQL Server allows you to store, process and query XML rather easily. There are some caveats, however: You can not compare or order by an XML data type field in SQL Server Entity Framework does not support the XML data type, so your XML field will be converted to a string Continue reading →
Devin Manno November 1, 2012I recently discovered that reading the field names of a .csv file using Python’s DictReader module causes the insertion of the field names back into the DictReader object. This seems like unexpected behavior to me. It appears to happen only once, the first time you attempt to read the field names. I’m using Python 3.3, Continue reading →
Devin Manno September 20, 2012Background I’ve recently been diving into the world of web scraping at work. “Web scraping” refers to extracting information from web pages. Web scraping using jQuery is a simple way to extract targeted information using client-side scripts that can be easily integrated into existing web applications. jQuery is a free JavaScript library that allows the Continue reading →