Deploying Ghost with Docker and Amazon ECS
This blog runs on Ghost. I like Ghost quite a bit. Sadly, I was often remiss in updating to the latest version. This weekend I finally »
Query on string length in MongoDB
If you need to query on string length, you will need to use the $where operator. As per the documentation, you can pass either a string »
Node multipart/form-data Explained
I was recently working on a project that involved sending large amounts of data through a series of HTTP based web service. After running through various »
Increase request timeout for Express Apps
In working on a Node.js microservice that had some long-running queries, I needed a way to increase the request timeout for the Express application. This »
Service-to-service Google API calls with Node
I'm going to walk you through the steps needed to make a service-to-service request from Google API. In this example, I wanted to read Google Product »
Bulk Insert into Temp Tables with node-mssql
One of the fastest pattersn for pushing data into MSSQL that we've found is using bulk copy. The process we use is bulk copy to push »
One Year Challenge
A little over a year ago I found a new obsession. A nerdy obsession. One that would change the course of the past year. Strangely enough »
Persist state after reducers execute with Redux
Lets consider a situation where we want to trigger an asynchronous operation AFTER a reducer fires. How might we go about it? There are a few »
Elasticsearch 2.3 cluster with Docker
This is a guide for starting a multi-node Elasticsearch 2.3 cluster from Docker containers residing on different hosts. This is not a guide for creating »
Trigger a sub-component event with Enzyme
I was struggling to get sub-component interactions nailed down and figured out a few ways to propagate your sub-component interactions with Enzyme. In my scenario, I »
Flux to Redux: Convert Container Components
In the previous articles we discussed converting Actions and Stores into Reducers. In this article, we'll discuss converting a Flux Container component into a Redux Container »
Flux to Redux: Converting Stores to Reducers
In the previous post we converted Flux actions to Redux action creators. The next part will discuss converting stores into reducers. Stores are more complicated, but »
Flux to Redux: Converting Action Creators
This is the first part in a series of tutorials showing how to convert Flux code to Redux. I find it easiest to start by converting »
A simple AWS CloudFormation example with Lambda and Kinesis
I finally took the plunge and played around with creating a CloudFormation template. It was actually easier than I thought it would be. So that's a »
C# Quoted Printable
Enjoy! static string DecodeQuotedPrintables(string input) { var occurences = new Regex("(\\=[0-9A-F][0-9A-F])+"); var matches = occurences.Matches(input); foreach (Match match in matches) { byte[] bytes = new byte[ »
Chained callback pattern in Javascript
Imagine we have four methods a(next), b(next), c(next), d() where the first three accept a callback. We want to execut these methods in »
Aggregate on string length in MongoDB
It's not actually possible to use the aggregation pipeline to aggregate on string length, at last in MongoDB 3.2 (the current version as of this »
Reload module with Node.js require
In Node.js using require to load a module will cache the result. If a module exports a constructed object it will be treated as a »
Retain tty when using child_proces.spawn
In trying to use child_process.spawn to launch a series of script files, I was running into an issue getting the child processes to render »
Function wrapping with Javascript Decorators
One of the best uses for ES7/Javascript 2017 decorators is adding additional functionality to a function. This article will discuss the basics of decorators and »