A recent Mac OSX Sierra upgrade killed my MAMP! h/t (https://juanfra.me/2013/01/mysql-not-starting-mamp-fix/) This is actually an easy fix. Just trash your MySQL log files. Navigate to: /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql{xx}/ and delete the 2 log files here. (Don’t worry. MySQL will rebuild them.) They are the files labelled ib_logfile{X} Just move those to the […]
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I recently moved to a new project, which meant joining a new team and getting a new computer. This guide has saved me a ton of time and works well to get my computer to quickly feel as comfortable as an old shoe. This is a terrific guide to pimp […]
The iMessage app in iOS 10 provides rich previews of links when they are properly formatted to take advantage of this new feature. In addition, these same links will contain rich previews in other apps too, like Facebook, Reddit, WhatsApp, Skype, Twitter, and others with the same configuration. In the […]
Great article: https://blog.gyrosco.pe/smooth-css-animations-7d8ffc2c1d29#.3zm20chcz
Bootstrap provides a class (.sr-only) to indicate content for screen readers only. This content is hidden visually, but gives visually-impaired users important information about open tabs, instructions for navigation, etc. Take, for example, AE.com‘s sidebar navigation… The obvious fix would be to include some screen reader only text […]
Just a few months after Facebook announced their “Create-React-App” project, WalmartLabs has opened sourced the application platform that runs Walmart.com, Electrode. So far, it looks like a feature-rich, rapid React development framework, much like Facebook’s project. Both of these projects solve a real problem. With a single and simple line […]
The kind folks at Facebook just announced a way to boilerplate a React.js app: Create-react-app They readily admit there have been several attempts to do this by others, most failing to gain traction. However, they also admit that Ember-CLI impressively ramps up development within that framework. After only a few […]
12 useful hacks for Javascript Most of these are very good tips.
Have to start getting used to some iterator syntax. Here’s how we USED to do it: for (let color in colors) { let colorObj = {}; colorObj.code = colors[color].colorPrdId; colorObj.name = colors[color].colorName; colorObj.imgSwatch = colors[color].imgSwatch; collection.push(colorObj); } Here’s the new way to code the same thing: colors.forEach(function (color) { collection.push({ code: […]
So you write some code, validate the feature, send it off to QA, and move on to something else. The last thing you expect is to have a QA engineer come back and say that your code doesn’t work. When that happens, you begin the process of identifying the differences […]