utility

Geocode addresses with Google Sheets and Google Geocoding API

Recently I discovered a powerful tool from the awesome Google Developers Youtube channel: Google Apps Script. This will let you integrate Google Apps and APIs easily. In this post I will show an example of integration between Google Sheets and Google Geocoding API.

I tried it writing a simple, but powerful example, experimenting with a use case that for sure will be useful to me in the future: geocoding a list of addresses taken from a spreadsheet.

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A simple script to update a DB migration in Django 1.7+

During the development of a Django model on your local machine is it often necessary to refine the most recent migration to cope with updates to the model, without polluting the migrations of the app with a new migration for each local update.

South had the update flag for the schemamigration command, but I didn’t find a similar functionality in the Django builtin makemigrations command introduced in Django 1.7.

So I put togheter a simple bash script to automate the process.

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How to build a pretty Excel timesheet using Toggl API and Python

Since some months I’m using Toggl to track my work time, and I find it awesome! Toggl features a very powerful reporting system to have your timesheets filtered in many ways and exported in csv or pdf format, but I did not found the way to have an Excel timesheet as I like it.

But wait! Toggl features a very nice public API to access your time entries (and many more), so I wrote a simple Python script using the wonderful Requests and Xlsxwriter libraries.

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