GIT Essential Tips

GIT has become one of those tools in e business that you can't ignore anymore. So I suggest you learn to use the basics of the idea called GIT. For my tester friends, as you enter the automation phase, git is going to come around sooner or later. So watch out.

Important everyday command with GIT

1. How to revert to an old commit both on local and remote

git reset --hard HEAD~1

git push -f origin master

2. How to get all branches of a git project

git fetch --all

3. How to delete a branch from local computer

git branch -d name

4. How to delete a remote branch

git push origin --delete branch

5. How to shift changes from one branch to another

git stash

git checkout branch

git stash pop

Python Decorators with simple examples

Everyone who has used python , has sooner or later come across decorators . That's that thing sitting on a function which magically does something special . It looks like :

@mydecorator

def my_function

Today we are going to learn , how to write decorators of our own . How this works:

CNTLM in Office

If you are facing a proxy problem , CNTLM is a general option everybody considers. But the working of CNTLM is not always guaranteed. I myself get confused every time I need to use it.

What problem are we actually talking about?

While working in offices and restricted environments where firewalls and other invisible barriers stop your requests from going out, you sometimes need a way to temporarily jump over that barrier to get your job done . Example: You might face them while trying to install using pip in command line, trying to clone a personal git repository. 

How to run a Python program on the internet from anywhere?

I want to run a python program whenever I need and get some information out of it. The problem is, I want to call that through internet. And I want to show the content on a web page or some UI container. That's it. Let put this as a requirement.

Problem: Display some information on my web page calculated by a python program

How do we do it on our local computer? We run our program as : python my_program.py.

So maybe I can do something like: www.mywebsite.com/my_program.py . Can we? No idea.

I expect to collect the response in some variable (no idea how I can create a variable in the first place on html) and then display the contents of this variable. Displaying a simple text on html is known, so that should be easy.