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Export Firestore to dev environment
Posted on October 20, 2021 Leave a Comment
Sooner or later you need production data in your development environment to test or develop a more rich UI experience based on real life data. There are a few ways of doing this, but this is the easiest especially if your on a windows machine. You probably already have a persistent data in your dev […]
GCB Firebase deploy error
Posted on October 20, 2020 Leave a Comment
Using Google Cloud Build to build and deploy your frontend NodeJS application is well documented in Building Node.js applications and Deploying to Firebase. How ever all these, or at least a majority of them, are based on Linux based development systems. If your on a windows machine you can run into a very specific problem […]
Install Protocol Buffers (protobuf) on Windows
Posted on May 17, 2020 Leave a Comment
I’m currently converting a few Google App Engine projects from Python 2.7 to Python 3. This includes a bunch of changes to the the code since Google is moving away from the built in Google App Engine classes. During the first few steps of converting the app you start changing out the dependencies still on […]
reCAPTCHA v2 vs reCAPTCHA v3
Posted on February 24, 2020 Leave a Comment
CAPTCHA was first invented in 1997 to distinguish a human from a bot performing an action. Back in the day captchas were usually obscured or deformed letters. Before that, we had the simple question verification like “what is 1 + 9” which is simple enough once the bot scrapes it off the page. In 2007 […]
Google Cloud Functions local testing – auto releod
Posted on February 3, 2020 Leave a Comment
Cloud Functions is Google Cloud’s event-driven serverless compute platform. Run your code locally or in the cloud without having to provision servers. Go from code to deploy with continuous delivery and monitoring tools. Cloud Functions scales up or down, so you pay only for compute resources you use. Easily create end-to-end complex development scenarios by […]
Multiple ReCaptcha on the same page
Posted on May 20, 2018 Leave a Comment
Been trying to use multiple Google reCAPTCHAs on the same page with mixed success. Reason for doing this is for example a login page with a reCAPTHCA for the login form and a modal opening with a reset password form. I prefer to use the “invisible” reCAPTCHA since it gives a cleaner look. To be […]
Powershell: IIS Application Pool Killer
Posted on January 8, 2018 Leave a Comment
Every now and then IIS application pools lock up and needs to be killed. You can add the field PID in Task Manager and then use cmd tools to find which one of the IIS Worker Process is the right one and kill it. I created a simple script that lists all the IIS Application […]
AngularJS: Drag & Drop
Posted on August 23, 2016 Leave a Comment
Implementing drag and drop in AngularJS is pretty straight forward using directives. This also makes the code re-usable throughout your app and/or other projects as well. As always there is a few fays of accomplishing this and the number of plugins available are many. If the plugins doesn’t perform what you need you can easily […]
Visual studio: Dump data to file from immediate window
Posted on August 15, 2016 Leave a Comment
Friday afternoon I started a test run against an API to sort some file issues out. Saving the result in a List<string> while running to dump it out to a text file when done. Due to bad formatting of the filename I got an unhandled exception. Quick test code doesn’t always include try-catch statements where they should […]
Front-end Demos on Github
Posted on August 9, 2016 2 Comments
I really like both JSFiddle and Plunker but they come with limitations. To counteract cross site scripting issues and other security concerns they sandbox the code with iFrames and similar methods. That is just fine when you do simple examples of front-end implementations. I actually managed to implement a connection to Google oAuth ina JSFiddle […]
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