The year 2014 witnessed an average growth of 10-12% in hiring and 8-10% hike in salaries. A sense of positivity prevailed in the economy throughout the year with jobseekers finding suitable jobs to earn their livelihood.

The New Year is expected to further scale up job opportunities in the Indian job market. Hiring is expected to grow in major industries including IT, FMCG, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, Pharma, Telecom and the Financial Sector. That apart, Indian travel and tourism industry will also contribute to the job market through the new Indian e-visa system rolled out for 43 countries.

Many human resource and job consulting companies are positive that the sentiments currently floating in the Indian job market will continue to draw big benefits to the jobseekers. An article published in Economic Times quoted the who’s who of country’s recruitment industry as they expressed their views and listed few hottest jobs trends for 2015. Few jobs that will be in high demand include:

• Retail Planners
• Digital Marketers
• Product Managers
• Senior IT Professionals
• Data Scientists

These and a plenty other profiles will be in great demand in varied industries. From BPO, Banking, to Retail and Advertising, more and more jobs will be seen across the country. The Narendra Modi government’s initiatives to attract more foreign investment to the country and the “Make in India” drive will further add to shaping 2015 job scenario.

According to a report by Business Standard, about 3 Lakh NRIs will return to India in 2015 as job opportunities galore.

Reference: http://www.y-axis.com/news/job-openings-india-scale-2015/

Are you tired of writing bulk of code & numerous lines of queries?

Then django is right platform for you. Django is python framework which follows ORM (Object Relational Mapping) concept. Here you don’t have to create tables but models. Model can be viewed as a class corresponding to your database table and fields as model’s attribute. You can even write methods that will manipulate attributes. Django automatically creates tables corresponding to your models in database.

For retrieval of information from database, you will have to write very few lines of code as compared to lengthy database query. Hence django saves your valuable time. Here is link of complete django documentation.

MOD_WSGI is an Apache module which can host any Python WSGI application, including Django.

Follow the below steps to deploy Django with Apache and mod_wsgi to get Django into Production

Steps.

1. Update PACKAGES

$ sudo bash

$ yum update

$ sudo yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel git-core -y

$ yum reinstall glibc-common

2. Install HTTPD

$ yum install httpd

$ sudo yum install httpd-devel

3. Install MYSQL

$ yum install mysql

$ sudo yum install MySQL-python

4. Install PYTHON

$ sudo yum install python27-devel -y

$ rm /usr/bin/python

$ ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python

$ wget –no-check-certificate http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.35.tar.gz

$ tar xf distribute-0.6.35.tar.gz

$ cd distribute-0.6.35

$ python2.7 setup.py install

5. Install PIP

$ easy_install-2.7 pip

6. Install DJANGO

$ pip install django

To check if Django is installed successfully create a project ‘test1’  using the command:

$ django-admin startproject test1

7. Install MOD_WSGI

$ wget http://modwsgi.googlecode.com/files/mod_wsgi-3.4.tar.gz

If you are unable to download the package from above link, google for the link to download mod_wsgi package and untar it using the command:

$ tar xzf mod_wsgi-3.4.tar.gz
$ cd mod_wsgi-3.4
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Hooray…you are ready to host your project.

For any queries please comment below.

Are you facing problems to include ManyToMany field in django haystack indexing? Then here is the solution.

Indexing a single valued field is not that much hard. When it comes for multi-valued field, a big question comes into your mind. In this case, index_obj=indexes.MultiValueField(indexed=True, stored=True) will help you.

Since we cannot assign multi-valued fields directly, include following code in search_index.py

prepare_index_obj(self,obj)

             return [index_obj.attribute for index_obj in obj.index_obj.select_related()]

Now, you have indexed your ManyToMany field. Then go to your views.py and find the ManyToMany object which belongs to search keyword.

index_obj = MultiValuedModel.objects.get(name=request.GET.get(‘SearchKeyword’)

Thats it…, Now you can filter SearchQuerySet() by index_obj parameter. This is how you can index ManyToMany field.

Refer this link to get into more depth

Crawling a website with Python is an easy task, provided we use below libraries 😉

Libraries:

• BeautifulSoup – A Python library which eases html parsing. Gives an object using which accessing html tags is just a matters of few mins.
• Requests – A HTTP library for Python.

BeautifulSoup can be plugged with any html/xml parser you want. It uses lxml parser which uses Xpath internally. Many such parsers are listed in this link BeautifulSoup

Notes:
One important aspect in scrapping webpages is detecting their encoding.
BeautifulSoup by default encodes the html to unicode.
It does sometimes misunderstands encoding.
UnicodeDammit in BeautifulSoup-4 is said to take care of encoding well. Needs to be explored more.

If you have any question feel free to ask in the comment box below. Happy to help

If you want to implement google like search engine in django then you are at right place. Before reading this blog, I strongly recommend you to have a look on “How google search works”.  Google uses page rank algorithm and indexing technique to make powerful search. However, when you are opting django to implement such powerful search functionality, you don’t have to implement indexing technique by writing your own code.

Django provides library named “haystack” which provides amazing plugins to implement your search engine. Along with haystack, you will also have to install search engine plugin. There are various search engine plugins such as Solr, Elasticsearch, Whoosh, Xapian, etc. From this list, I think that Whoosh is simplest one to implement. Whoosh also provides spelling correction, auto complete, page ranking(boost) & many more functionality. Please refer this link to get more information about haystack.

Let me know if you need more help, post your questions in comment box.

Programming jobs are hot and high-paying. When you land one of these jobs, the programming languages you use day-to-day will depend on where you work, of course. But if you’re freelancing, or even just wanting to make sure you’re up-to-date in the programming world, you’ll want to get to know the 10 best programming languages before the year is out. https://blog.jixee.me/10-best-programming-languages-learn-2015/