Typically in JavaScript and Node.js projects, use of console is disallowed and is enforced using the no-console rule in ESLint. Logging would then be done thru a centralized function, e.g. log(), which may use console.log with the ESLint rule disabled just for that line of code, instead of having multiple console.log statements throughout the codebase …
Been using the AWS SDK for JavaScript v3 for the past 2 weeks and was bitten many times by the appalling inconsistencies, not to mention the unnecessary verbosity of the naming conventions, making it painful to write code to handle the requests/responses in a generic way across all the resources. A picture paints a thousand …
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Scenario: A third party security agency hired by your boss or client wishes to monitor the SSH logs on the bastion host of your application. The bastion host is setup on an AWS EC2 instance. Instead of giving direct access to the bastion host for pulling the SSH logs in /var/log/auth.log, we can forward the …
Was trying to migrate a database from MySQL to PostgreSQL recently when I “discovered” that UNSIGNED is not supported in PostgreSQL, as it is not part of the ANSI SQL standard which it follows closely. Other findings were that non-aggregate columns are not allowed in queries with GROUP BY clauses (which MySQL/SQLite “allows” by selecting …
MySQL query to generate INSERT statements with columns for all tables in the current database: — Increase limit for GROUP_CONCAT() to avoid text cutoff SET SESSION group_concat_max_len = 1048576; SELECT CONCAT( ‘\n\n’, GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT( ‘INSERT INTO `’, table_name, ‘` (‘, columns, ‘) VALUES ()’ ) SEPARATOR ‘\n\n’), ‘\n’ ) AS result FROM ( SELECT table_name, GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT(‘`’, …
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Took a module under Dr Roland Yap, CS4239 Software Security, at my alma mater NUS (National University of Singapore) School of Computing, back in 2017 Semester 1. It was part of its Lifelong Education programme, under SCALE (School of Continuing and Lifelong Education), where modules were opened up to the general public. One interesting lesson …
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/** * Example of JavaScript code that can be used client-side in the browser and server-side in Node.js * * Usage in browser: * <script src=”shared.js”></script> * <script> * console.log(shared.STATUS_SUCCESS, shared.test()); // note that shared.getTimestamp() won’t work * </script> * * Usage in Node.js: * …
Scenario: Build a pagination partial consisting of 3 parts – the item range (e.g. “Showing 1 – 10 of 30 results”), a dropdown to select the page and a dropdown to select the number of items per page. The 3 parts will be displayed in a different order and have different text alignment on mobile …
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Result (drawn using ASCIIFlow Legacy): +————————————————–+ | | | 1) This text is left. This text is right. | | 2) This text is left. This text is right. | | | +————————————————–+ Sample HTML and CSS: <style> .split { display: block; } .split span { display: block; float: right; } div { left: 200px; …
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Came across a GitHub issue Collection processing like @index for Mustache.js. It referenced the each() function in another library, GRMustache. Came up with the following and posted my solution back in the Mustache.js GitHub issue Sample output: <h4>Test 1: Loop over array with count & access to existing template vars/fns</h4> <div data-date=”2021-12-03″>item 1/4: ant …
