Category Archives: python

Speed up static resources with AWS CloudFront CDN

Posted on September 7, 2013 by frankdu

Nowadays CDN is easy to use. Even a startup or personal website shall consider use CDN to speed up static resources, such as photos, javascript/css files. Here are simple steps to use AWS CloudFront CDN and enable it in Tornado. … Continue reading →

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Base64 Encoding in Android 2.1 or Earlier

Posted on January 27, 2011 by frankdu

Base64 is common used. Now Google added a utility class android.util.Base64. Unfortunately it is only available in Android 2.2 and later. So, you need just a little bit work to use it with Android 2.1 or ealier. Yes, just copy … Continue reading →

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Yahoo API & web services

Posted on June 5, 2009 by frankdu

Recently I am interested in Yahoo API and web services, especially inquirying finance data via the APIs. Yahoo provides nice language support. For example, python is supported at http://developer.yahoo.com/python/ At the bottom of the page, you can find a list … Continue reading →

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