Change to a directory using a bash menu script and launch vscode
This is a shell script that changes to my code development directory and then lists the directorys and gives a numbered menu to enter a number and then change to that directory and launch vscode You need to add an alias to your .bash_profile so that the script is...
read moreChanging the www-data User Environment for a Perl Script
The Problem - Rendering Unicode Characters using Glabels I have a Perl script running on an Apache webserver that launches glabels-3-batch and given a data input file and a glabels template outputs a label as a PDF document. This is in a Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS container...
read moreConnecting a Docker Container to a MySQL Server Running on the host
Just been trying to connect from a Docker container to a MySQL server running on the Docker Host. I am running Docker Community Edition 18.03.1-ce-mac65 (24312) on a Macbook Pro MacOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 What didn't work Found a lot of information saying to...
read moreAustralian Mobile Validation CakePHP 3.x
// src/Model/Table/Users.php where Users is the class name // of the table field your are validating $australianMobile = '/^(0|\+61)4\d{8}$/'; $validator ->add('mobile_number', 'custom', [ 'rule' => function ($value, $context) use...
read moreCar Mounted Traffic Guidance Drone
An idea A car with a small compartment with an automatic door. The compartment contains a charging cradle and a small micro-drone with a hi res camera and a wi-fi connection back to the car The cars on-board computer releases the drone when the car driver, or the cars...
read moreApache Reverse Proxy with Websocket
This is the working configuration for an SSL Apache 2.4.6 Reverse Proxy back to an Apache-Coyote/1.1 server, including letsencrypt configuration to allow the automated renewal of certificates using a local webroot on the Reverse Proxy Server Apache Reverse Proxy SSL...
read moreEmbedding ReactJS in a CakePHP View
When people say they want to use CakePHP with React typically the recommendation is to convert CakePHP into an API server and then add ReactJS as the front-end served on a different URL then CakePHP. But what about when you have a CakePHP application and you want to...
read moreNextJS + Redux Testing
Been trying to implement some tests for NextJS Redux App. You can get most of the way there by following the very good information here => http://redux.js.org/recipes/writing-tests But if you drop .babelrc into your NextJS project as per above it stops the npm run...
read moreJavascript Tips: Scope your case blocks with curly brackets
Give your react props default values If you pass null as a prop then you get warnings about going from a controlled to uncontrolled component Renaming variables when...
read moreDealing with Flashes of Unstyled Content in NextJS
So I made a YouTube video of a challenge I had of a FontawesomeIcon React component flashing to massive when loading the page and then back to the right size. This video shows the work-a-rounds. I tried to include the code snippets here but the self hosted wordpress...
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