This is an example of how to setup a web scraper using an Azure function. In this example we use classified site kijiji.com to search for new ads in a certain category page and then send any new ads to a given email with mailgun.

Using a Azure serverless function is easier than you might think. Using VS code Azure functions extensions you can setup a simple function.

Sometimes the best practices is the best. That is what I learned when trying to set up Docker for development

One of the best ways of leveling up your coding skills is to read more code.

At work we are working on a fairly old codebase. I think the current iteration of the site started back in 2006. So in the web world this is getting pretty old. It is also built on zend framework 1 which at the time was the new hotness for php frameworks.

Before deciding that I wanted to become a full time programmer as my profession I wasn't really sure about it. I always felt that I was not very good at it. There were some younger students that I went to school with that seemed to be much better at programming than I was. So I thought that maybe I wasn't cut out to be a programmer

Since I was a kid I have always loved computers. I remember my first computer that had a big 4GB hard drive. We had a 28.8kbps modem and doubled our speeds to 56.6 not long after. It was amazing what you could do with it.