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Simple CSS Loading Spinner
I recently wanted to create my own simple loading spinner with just HTML and CSS. Here is the code that I came up with: HTML CSS See It In Action Below is what it looks like in action. I added Read more…
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JavaScript – Async Function Constructor
In JavaScript you can create a function by using the Function constructor: The above code produces a sum() function which takes 1 or more arguments and returns the sum of them all added together. You can check out the following Read more…
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PHP Snippet – parse_jsonc()
A few months ago I wrote a quick post showing how to parse JSONC (JSON with comments) files in JavaScript. Shortly thereafter I adapted the code to work in PHP as well: This function takes the same arguments that you Read more…
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IO App – XML To JSON Converter
There are a lot of online converters out there that will take XML file contents and turn it into JSON. I decided to make my own and then show how simply this can be done with modern JavaScript: How Does Read more…
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JavaScript Snippet – importUnpkg()
There are many websites that make it super easy to import node packages into your website. One of them is Unpkg.com. If you want to import a package into your web page or website you can try using the following: Read more…
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Salesforce LWC – Controlling Height of Datatables
At times you may want to set a minimum height and/or a maximum height for an Lightning Web Component Datatable. The documentation may lead you to believe that you cannot accomplish this but with some CSS3 you definitely can. If Read more…
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JSON.parse() Reviver for Dates
Did you know that you can pass a function as the second parameter to JSON.parse()? Doing this causes every key/value pair to be passed to this function for further processing. You can read all about how JSON.parse() and the reviver Read more…
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JavaScript Snippet – parseJSONC()
Last year I needed a way to be able to parse JSON with comments (also known as JSONC). With that in mind I wrote the following short solution which will essentially remove JavaScript-style comments and trailing commas from the specified Read more…
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Python Snippet – Get Exception Stack Trace
Every once in a while I just need to get the stack trace of an exception as a string so that I can log the error in a separate system. Here is a quick way to do that:
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JavaScript – Base64 Data URLs Outside of the Latin1 Range
It is often handy to create downloadable content on the fly using JavaScript. Sometimes you may want to do so while also encoding the contents as base64. That is where the btoa() function comes in handy. Here is an example Read more…