Altova’s XMLSpy is an extremely powerful XML editor with excellent tools for creating XML Schemas, XSLTs, and basic XML documents, and the great news is that you can try it before buying it.

With Google’s webp format, you get the same quality image at a much smaller file size, meaning faster downloads for your users. Google offers conversion tools for converting png, gif, and jpeg files to webp, but you can also easily roll your own with Python and PILLOW. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how.

Django’s syndication framework makes it pretty simple to create RSS feeds. It is a little trickier if you want to create separate feeds based on a category or a tag. For example, we have a feed at /articles/django/feed/ that returns articles about Django and a feed at /articles/python/feed/ that returns articles about Python. In this […]

I’ve made a lot of customization to Django admin using JavaScript. Although Django admin supports jQuery and will continue to do so in Django 4.0, I stick to vanilla JavaScript. In this article, I explain why.

The default datetime widget in Django admin takes up too much vertical space and its behavior can be improved.

Learn how to install the free version of Oracle: Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) version 21c and SQL Developer, Oracle’s free tool for developing and managing databases.

Being a techie means constant learning. Whether you’re a newbie web developer or an experienced programmer, you are bound to find yourself banging your head against a wall, trying to figure out why the new software you installed isn’t behaving correctly or why the program you just wrote is not working. Luckily, there are a […]

This article shows you how to get Oracle’s demo HR schema, which is used in Oracle tutorials, documentation, and in Webucator’s Oracle courses.

Every once in a while, we need to make an edit to a video for which we already have closed captioning. If the edit affects the length of the video; for example, if we removed or added a segment to the video; then we will also need to edit the WebVTT file. Doing so manually […]

You may have noticed that there is no difference in size between an h1 heading and h2 heading within an article or section element. That’s weird. In this article, I’ll explain why it is, and the current recommendation for HTML heading levels.