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Playing with the … spread operator on JSON objects
const stringify = (obj) => { // use 2 spaces and pretty print it return JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2) } const token = "hijames" // starting array const config = { headers: { 'Authorization': `Bearer ${token}`,...
Format Of and Verify an ABN – Ouh a secret puzzle
Just discovered it's not just Credit Cards and Barcodes that have validity check digits and algorithms FIrstly an ABN (Australian Business Number) is formatted XX XXX XXX XXX e.g 84 008 812 322 The ABR website has the information on how to calculate the validity of an...
Tips to using CakePHP 3.x as a ReactJS API backend
Information for React I found useful https://auth0.com/blog/secure-your-react-and-redux-app-with-jwt-authentication/ this had a sample project that showed how to setup redux and react and explains the redux ecosystem of store, actions, action creators, reducers etc....
CakePHP 3 Database Migrations
You have a database with a heap of tables already running. You want to start from that base and then be able to migrate from that running database through the addition of new fields and then migrate those changes to your production database Here is how I believe you...
Bali Nov-Dec 2017
This year we went to Bali. My observations: The Instagram brand building culture makes people pose for photos in increasingly awkward positions. It's entertaining to watch as beautiful people contort and genuflect to get the next morsel for their social media...
Tips on Testing SMTP on Port 25 and 465
When testing your login using AUTH PLAIN if your passwords starts with a number you need to use a \000 instead of \0 other wise you will always get an error as the base64 encoded string will be wrong printf 'username\0username\0001234567pwd' | mmencode perl...

