angular

Electron AppUse SCSS, Luke!

Traditionally, I've been a LESS supporter. The way it does mixins for example seems to me more intuitive. However, I noticed that my go-to framework (bootstrap) is now doing SASS-first and then LESS. So, one adapts... and the option in angular-cli makes things less painful. What was painful

angular

Electron and WebPack - Live Reloads

I wanted to create a skeleton with Electron, Angular 2, capable of live reload while in development. I've settled on the following framework: * Electron (d'oh!) * Angular 2 * Angular CLI (because it makes it easy to generate boilerplate code) * SASS (SCSS in fact) * Webpack 2 and * Babel

angular-cli

Electron App - Is It Alive?

TL;DR: Yes, but it's limping badly. Now that I've created the angular app, I wanted to find out if I could develop an Electron app without actually adding the Electron dependency yet. My naive findings are: * You can develop any ui-related bit * I could not

angular

Electron App. Why angular-cli?

The decision has been made for me since I'm new to Angular in general and the CLI offers a package deal particularly where code generation and initial package management is concerned. There's also the boon of webpack, which is used as engine. Although the balance tilts

debug

Debug Electron in VS Code

TL;DR: You need to follow the server (electron) client (VS code debugger) approach. Be aware of OS specifics! So far, my approach towards development/debugging would be to write some code, test it, rewrite, test... all with a bunch of console.log() statements. That's not efficient at

dev

Rise and Fall of WebPack Dev Server in My Project

Disclaimer: This is a log of my journey developing an electron app. I'm working at a small electron app and I was experimenting with webpack-dev-server, so I can try to do live reloads. First, I've started the app as a web app (no electron dependencies whatsoever)

custom

Change Packages Paths in NodeJS

TL;DR: Edit %appdata%\npm\etc\npmrc and add prefix and cache entries to specify the locations where node puts packages. Every time I install a new framework/dev environment I have to look where they put files. Having a roaming profile is a pain and I need to make

db

Select Rows Where Value from One Column Matches Other Column

TL;DR: Use a JOIN. I've got a table representing a tree, using two columns: CREATE TABLE "EXAMPLE" ( "PROP_ID" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE, "PARENT_PROP_ID" VARCHAR2(20 BYTE) NOT NULL ENABLE, /* * Data ... */ "CLASS_ID" VARCHAR2(20

all

Simulate UNION with BLOBs

TL;DR: If you have BLOBs, you need to use UNION ALL. If you use UNION ALL, you need to partition off a criterion and select the first row. The other day I had to figure out how UNION works in Oracle, because we're retrofitting an application with

bash

Use Git Bash as Integrated Terminal in VS Code

TL;DR:: Install windows git to get bash and add "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe" to "terminal.integrated.shell.windows" in VS Code's user settings. As I'm trying my hand at developing a node application today, I'm getting

debug

Debug Javascript - Some Methods

These days I'm trying to tweak a 3rd-party framework and I'm missing stuff sometimes (e.g. injected data). Below are some methods I've found useful when debugging the script. * console.log - print all things * Object inspection - see your object's content

debug

Debug Javascript - Object Inspection

Many times, you have objects where you may or may not know their content. If you're running in the browser, life is easy as you can pause the code and inspect the object. at command line is a bit more annoying. In this case, at least for the

debug

Debug Javascript - console.log

This is the holy grail of debugging for me. It's old school, simple and effective. It works both in browser and from command line. My code looks like: console.log("Environment path: " + envPath); You can make it fancier with debug levels (in if() statements or with

house

House Log - current phase

We are quite disappointed on the progress (or lack thereof) of the house. We are thinking on the following: 1. Communication - We have to work to improve it: * We had twice delay with no feedback (first with the green light letter, second with the architect) * We need to improve

java

Pass Through a Corporate Proxy in Java

TL;DR: There's no easy way to create a proxy :) I've tried for a while to build a way to request something through a proxy, for testing an emulated android app. The solution came from Octavian who kindly provided me a snippet to run once per

api

Get all Proposal Names from the Participant Portal

I've found out the participant portal for H2020 offers an API. This is quite neat as one can integrate with the data, e.g. by reading and listing the calls. I've written a proof of concept to list all calls from this and last years. First,

chrome

Inject Proxy Settings in Selenium/Chrome

I have the following situation: I'm behind a corporate proxy and I need to run a test accessing an external website. To do this, I've picked up chrome/chromium as driver of choice. My current solution implies an authentication via plugin. The plugin The chrome plugin

developer

Move SQL Developer Data from the Roaming Profile in Windows

TL;DR:: Set up IDE_USER_DIR. I have to keep my roaming profile on a diet and this means moving a bunch of default directories around. The latest victim is SQL Developer According to this post, the environment variable to be changed is IDE_USER_DIR. From the post:

530

AppleIntelSKLGraphicsFramebuffer - Kernel panic with Intel530

TL;DR: My solution was to just set the DVMT (Dynamic Video Memory Technology) to 64M. YMMV though... Yesterday I decided I want to start building a hackintosh to replace my old mac mini. My system has the following components: * Asus Maximus Hero VIII Alpha * 16 GB of RAM * I6700k

asm

BIOS Loads from 0x7c00

Today I was investigating a bug where a simple program wasn't executing properly. It emerged that BIOS loads the code from the MBR at 0x7c00. Relevant info reproduced here: The (legacy) BIOS checks bootable devices for a boot signature, a so called magic number. The boot signature is

configuration

Set Different Gradle Configurations

TL;DR: create a global gradle.properties file (in <HOME>/.gradle or GRADLE_USER_HOME if defined). Place there the system specific configuration. The other day I had the unpleasant surprise that Android Studio replicated my proxy settings into gradle.properties and got committed to Git. Including a

7

Migrate Chromium and Keep all Settings

TL;DR: Backup App Data\Local\Chromium on your old machine, copy it to your new one and uncompress (in the same place), install Chromium, profit. With the migration to a new computer, I've managed to keep all my Chromium settings. The steps I did are the following:

house

We have lift-off

We gave the green light to the builders to start the process. The letter goes something like this: We are hereby agreeing to proceed with the planning application for our house. This phase of the project encompasses only the activities related to obtaining the planning permission from the commune. These

control

Install and Use Package Control Behind Proxy

TL;DR: Install Package Control manually. Add the proxy settings to the configuration file as described in step 2 below. Today I've had to install Sublime Text 3 again on a new computer. Package control didn't want to install due to my proxy settings (I was

game

26836

I've finished Vector TD (40 levels) with a score of 26836! Proof: