WowWee Fingerlings, a Wearable Smart Toy
If you haven’t yet met the Fingerlings, you soon will. They’re already getting hyped up as the toy of the 2017 holiday season (a la Hatchimals). Given I’ve two girls that will…
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Things to Consider When Buying Toddler Puzzles
Toddler puzzles are a great educational and entertaining activity, and you can start early. At around 10 months, babies start to do their own version of puzzles: putting stuff –…
Toddler Tech and Tablets – Where to Draw the Line?
Should you let your toddler play with a tablet, or other “toddler tech”? It’s a divisive topic. Many parents have strong opinions about this. Some claim their kids won’t be…
5 Fun Toddler Construction Paper Crafts
It’s raining out, you can’t bear to watch another episode of Dora or Diego, and you’ve got hours to pass before nap time or the next meal. And your toddler…
From Diapers to Dartmouth
This article on preparing toddlers for the Ivy League was originally posted on the Scouted blog. ** A few weeks ago during Scouted team lunch, I joked that I’d write…
Do finance majors get the finance jobs?
The following is a copy of a post I authored about finance majors for Scouted. see the original over at the Scouted blog. *** Back when I was in college,…
What is The Product Development Process?
Or: do Ninja Coders Write in Invisible Ink? The following is a copy of a post I authored about the product development process for Scouted – see the original over…
Web Scraping, Part 4 – Scrapy
While it’s all well and good to know how to retrieve pages, parse them, and build a crude web crawler, there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel given there are…
Web Scraping, Part 3: Scraping Case Study
In this post, we’re going to use what was covered on web scraping in the first two posts (#1 and #2) in this series for a web scraping case study: scraping…
Web Scraping, Part 2: Parsing
In the last post, we saw that many times the web page you request is not the page you receive. Similarly, often the page you’ve downloaded looks nothing like the…