Let’s say that you want the following JavaScript to run directly in a WordPress post: To execute that you can write the following into your post: The resulting of running the above in a WordPress post is this: As you Read more…
Today I had to get the ISO year start and the ISO year end for a given date. For instance, according to ISO8601 the week number for January 30, 2020 is 5: Year Limits By Date In Year Let’s say Read more…
Perhaps, like me, you find yourself maintaining an ASP.NET MVC web application and you need to find the number of errors added to the ModelState. Of course, you may think that you can just use something like ModelState.Count, but this Read more…
Have you ever wanted to get the contents of a GitHub file via JavaScript? If so I wrote the following function which gives you the ability to get the contents of a file or of a directory: Here is an Read more…
One thing that you may need to use from time to time in Postgres is a function to be able to extract the value of a URL parameter from URLs stored in your DB. I wanted to be able to Read more…
Recently I have been writing plugins for Grafana and had a desire to make a panel that would give the user the ability to use the data from the query within HTML with AngularJS syntax. I have not come up Read more…
I recently wrote a post about how to query hierarchical data without recursion in PostgreSQL. Now it is time to talk about how to do it with recursion. 😎 CTEs (Common Table Expressions), AKA WITH clauses, provide us the ability Read more…
Hierarchical data stored in a relational database such as PostgreSQL can be tricky to work with. An organization is an example of a hierarchical structure. For example, let’s say that we need to represent employees: Davy Crocket Cindy Cruz George Read more…
If you are annoyed by the fact that you can no longer control the volume of native videos in Google Chrome you are not alone. Originally Chrome allowed you to control the volume of videos: Now Chrome’s new video element Read more…
Making certain JavaScript UI solutions work with Vue can be a bit of a hassle at times especially if you are new to Vue. Ace editor, for example, is a great solution for developer that want to add a syntax Read more…