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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…

By Chris West, 3 years ago June 4, 2022
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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…

By Chris West, 3 years ago April 12, 2022
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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…

By Chris West, 3 years ago February 7, 2022
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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…

By Chris West, 3 years ago February 5, 2022
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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:

By Chris West, 4 years ago November 15, 2021
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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…

By Chris West, 4 years ago June 30, 2021
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Python Snippet – Datetimes In UTC

There have been so many times when I wanted to have a datetime show in UTC. I am not talking about simply looking at the time and acting as if it is in UTC. For example let’s say that I Read more…

By Chris West, 4 years ago April 10, 2021
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Python Integration – QuickBooks Customer Object Tidbit

Recently I had to write a custom integration which would sync customers found in QuickBooks with accounts found in Salesforce. We have been using Python to write all of our custom integrations so I have been using python-quickbooks and simple-salesforce. Read more…

By Chris West, 5 years ago October 14, 2020
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JavaScript Snippet – Convert Column Name To Number

On a rare occasion you may need to convert a column name from Excel or Google Sheets to a number. For example you may be seeing references to a random column such as D, G, BV, etc. but you don’t Read more…

By Chris West, 5 years ago June 10, 2020
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Embed Office Documents On Your Site

Have you ever wanted to display an Excel workbook or a Word document on your website? Of course, it is possible to save files as HTML but it just doesn’t have the same feel. Fortunately Microsoft can actually come to Read more…

By Chris West, 5 years ago May 22, 2020

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