programming

For a number of years I have been using Dillinger.io to compile my Markdown files into HTML. The process was relatively easy and I could quickly take the body content out of the exported web page and insert it into a Bootstrap HTML template to produce a styled web page. The HTML that was created wasn’t valid HTML but I wasn’t concerned with that. Recently I found that Dillinger started changing the formatting of the HTML content it was producing. ...

I was working on my computer today when I needed to search for a topic on Google. To my surprise the internet had stopped working. I quickly checked on another device and found that the internet was working there. It was just my computer with the problem. I have had this problem in the past and use ipconfig to fix it. The commands are: ipconfig /registerdns ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew The part that I always forget to do is reboot my computer after I do the renew. ...

I was struggling to get some code working in JavaScript and realised that I’d made a small variable type error. This is one of the problems in working with a loosely typed language like JavaScript. When I work in C# it is strongly typed meaning that I have to declare a variable and its type at the same time. This saves a multitude of errors in my code. Unfortunately I don’t have this luxury with JavaScript and I have to be more careful with my variables. ...

I have recently completed the Udemy Modern JavaScript Bootcamp 2019 course run by Andrew Mead. It has been one of the most professional courses I have taken in video training. The quality and depth of training would be enough to give a learner a solid understanding of javascript. There is enough content to keep a user going for a couple of months. I did all of the training exercises and have built up a wealth of knowledge and some best practices in JavaScript. ...

Using SQL Server for generating JSON wasn’t totally successful so I created a program to reformat my record list into JSON for use in my JavaScript projects. I wanted to load it into my local storage and use it as a data source. See my previous article. The program I created runs in the console and has no arguments. It just grabs a dump of my Artist and Record tables and merges the two sources as a 1 artist to many records JSON file. ...

I have a Google Chrome extension named JSON viewer Awesome and was using this for testing. The problem with this extension is that it doesn’t load JSON if it has validation issues. The other issue is that it doesn’t show where the errors have occurred. The following view is validated JSON. I then changed over to using the online JSONFormatter.org website and was able to upload my JSON and get an error message for each place I had an issue. ...