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One of the more tangible caveats of this is the way that everything is implemented multiple times and in different ways… and this leads me to this following issue:

It doesn’t observe the Host-Header HTTP parameter but instead uses a hard-coded configuration.

Since I have no interest and ambition in contributing to OpenCart, and to to get it to run through NGROK on the local-host, I found the easiest way was to change the configuration…

Development of node-red nodes w. docker has one big issue

Its a common known design decision by the Docker team that they don’t want to have support for symbolic links in their volumes, which means that using the Node-RED docker images while developing Node-RED nodes has a critical flaw since it means that the approach recommended by the Node-RED team which involves creating symbolic links to the source directory from the root of the Node-RED runtime.

G…

As an experiment to get re-familiarized with Node-RED as part of research for a new type of software, I implemented a small utility node for simple Email Validation.

GitLab: https://gitlab.com/node-red-contrib/node-red-contrib-email-validator

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-red-contrib-email-validator

Node-RED Library: https://flows.nodered.org/search?term=email-validator

Angular-Material still has Flex-Layout

After having nearly panicked when coming to the realization that there wouldn’t be support for the usual Layout mechanisms from previous versions, fortunately I came across the following library: https://github.com/angular/flex-layout

So now we have all the lovely layout mechanisms we have come to like so much from previous Angular versions still available in the latest version.

Multiple Environment with Loopback 4

When configuring multiple environments for a Loopback 4 Application, it can appear less straight forward than with Loopback 3, so here is a quick fix for how to get over this obstacle as elegantly as possible in 5 minutes.

Import dotenv and create a .env file in the root of the app.

Put your database configuration in this file.

Empty the existing datasource file so it contains an empty JSON (file…

QuickFix how to deploy a Loopback 4 Application to Heroku

When you are prototyping, sometimes you just need something to work, this was my case with a new experiment I’m working using Loopback 4 which I wanted to deploy for to Heroku for some rapid testing.

Generally CLI generated App’s doesn’t like environments like Heroku too much and since I later will deploy to DigitalOcean through some Docker containers, I just needed a QuickFix.

Anyways, let’s get…

Simply add the configuration script to the “scripts” of the angular.json configuration for the build task.

CORS with Loopback & Angular Apps

To get the two running nicely together in respect to CORS, don’t forget to disable the origin only default policy of Loopback by setting the origin in the CORS configuration to “*” in the middleware.json file.

{ ... "initial": { "compression": {}, "cors": { "params": { "origin": "*", "credentials": true, "maxAge": 86400 } } ... } }

Enable UUID on PostgreSQL

Sometimes we want to have native support for UUID’s in Postgres, fortunately there is already a ready-made extension that makes it easy.

Enter the “uuid-ossp” extension… fortunately furthermore, its very easy to use…

Enable the extension:

CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS “uuid-ossp”

Set default value on the column to “expression” and use the following default value:

uuid_generate_v4()

Keyboard Shortcut for Inserting Comment in Word for Mac

If you have come to this post, chances are you like me found yourself tired of adding comments by using the mouse and was surprised that the “Insert Comment” didn’t feature a keyboard shortcut… but dispair not, the solution is here… Very intuitively (not really), the keyboard shortcut to insert comment is Command + Alt + A… If you want to see for yourself or set it to something else, you can find…

Early Fuse Experiment… porting the Angular-Resource Module to Fuse

Fuse is a cool new front-end technology, probably the coolest alternative right now creating cross platform mobile applications with Native Performance… I do a lot of CRUD application, so as part of the learning process, I decided to experiment with how it would be to port the Angular-Resource module to be used in fuse. This is still very very early stuff, I just wanted to share it quickly to…

Fuse Singapore User Group

We’re rolling… if you are interested in cross-platform development platforms, take a look at FuseTools… it offers native performance and without the geekity of Xamarin… Come and Slack around with Fusers from all over the world… slackcommunity.fusetools.com If you happen to be in Singapore and are on Facebook, come join our newly started group ! https://www.facebook.com/groups/fuse.singapore/

Recommended contents of .gitignore for Fuse Projects

It’s always a good discussion what to include in a Git repository and hence what to include in a projects .gitignore file… Here is what we are using at the time of writing… .build/* .cache/*

To get Loopback App’s running on Heroku, a couple of hacks are required due to the way Loopback manages it’s configurations.

The first issue to solve is to get Loopback to take the port number from the environment since Heroku uses arbitrary port numbers to target different applications.

There is probably a more elegant way, however I first wanted to stay out of node_modules files, so I opted to…

When using node-sass together with io.js, one of the problems is that it’s not updated to work with the latest version of io.js (at the time of writing, v.1.6.2). Currently node-sass only supports io.js until v.1.2.

This causes the installation of node-sass and any libraries that depends on node-sass to fail to fetch all resources during installation, which eventually causes processes that tries…

Retrieving the currently authenticated user in a Loopback Application can be done in many ways, and one of them is the one I want to share in this post.

I wanted to be able to utilise the Angular SDK as well as the Explorer, so adding a routing manually in a boot script was not really an option, however simple that might be, so I decided to opt for implementing it as a custom Model.

The…

While getting one’s hands dirty with Sequelize, it can be useful to have access to the documentation, so even it’s relatively simple I decided to wrap the documentation for Sequelize in a docSet for Dash…

Here is the link for the feed file… Direct Link

…and here is the link for the custom URL for adding the feed to your Dash… Add Feed Automatically