I created a new Github repository today for a Node/Express project at work. After pushing the project code I went to Github and saw that the language for the project was listed as CSS. To be fair to Github, I did style my app with CSS. But as it’s a Node app, I expected to …
Use Yarn in place of npm: Workflows don’t change; Packages load faster; Consistent node_module structure.
Comments aren’t part of the official JSON specification. According to an old (2012) Google Plus post by Douglas Crockford, he removed them to preserve interoperability. But that same post suggests you can still use comments so long as you remove them through minification before parsing. There are a few other ways to handle JSON comments …
The great thing about using Node streams in Gulp is that you don’t have to keep opening and closing files for each task like in Grunt. This lack of i/o overhead makes running a series of tasks very fast.
I was always bothered by how long Grunt took to run through all my tasks and complete my build. It would take 10+ seconds to finish and I would have to sit there waiting to check my latest edits. It can be really hard to develop a piece of code when you are constantly halting your flow.
Here is a simple but powerful way to use Python to search and find all files with a specific extension within a given folder and all of its sub-folders using os.walk(). I use it a lot to find map documents with broken data sources, images that need to be organized or just to get a quick count of …
The Problem: The county I work for had a one page geography quiz with outdated questions and a poorly structured user interface. It was just an unstyled list of select dropdowns and a submit button. The answer page that was returned just listed each question with all the answer choices under them. One answer under each …
I always forget the steps to get Setuptools and PIP installed. So I thought I would document the steps here.
“Use it or lose it” certainly applies where brain function is concerned. The experts tell you to exercise your brain to keep it in shape and ward off forgetfulness and possibly dementia when you are older. One way to exercise your brain is to do computations in your head. Not long ago I read a …
Having worked with both the ArcGIS Silverlight and Javascript APIs I have to say Javascript has been much more fun. There is just something about working on the front end of a web map and being able to have it do so many amazing things. Here are my top five reasons I enjoy working with …
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